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SUSTAINABILITY
Five on Five Interview:Sustainability According to the Industry Players - Part II In our previous edition of Protective Coatings we published the first of a three-part interview to senior figures from within the Coatings and Resins industry on the role of sustainability within their organisations. We wanted to give our readers some unique and different content while at the same time embracing a noble element within our industry. If you didn’t catch the first article you can still read it online at www.myipcm.com by selecting issue n. 29 of Protective Coatings (April 2019) and scrolling onto page 46. Below you can find the second part of the first Five on Five interview, with the answers to five further questions. Once again, we would like to call out that there are no right or wrong answers as regards sustainability and indeed each company has reached different points in their journey.
6. Why and when did your company get involved seriously with sustainability? Joel Svendsen, Belzona – I would say it was really from the very
the very beginning was that if we can begin to slow down corrosion, then we don’t need as much metal. Everybody knew it was a problem. But they struggled to come up with effective solutions for it. Steel is such an
beginning. When Belzona was formed, my father (Jorgen Svendsen) would
effective material. It is so integral in construction, that you want to use it
travel around the UK and see rust and corrosion everywhere! Corrosion
all over the place and in the beginning, you accepted that its lifespan was
protection was really in its infancy at this time. For example, a bridge
short. Gradually people began to find solutions for it, but it has been a
made out of metal would have a very short lifespan, rust away and large
long process. Belzona certainly has been a leader in extending the life of
sections would have to be replaced fairly quickly. So, Belzona’s vision from
steel, being one of the first companies to have effective solutions for this.
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