Since the early eighties, there has been a fast evolution in the steel pipe coating business because the fluids’ operation and transportation are challenged by increasingly diverse and aggressive environmental conditions due to a growing demand for energy.

Going along with the needs of the industry, Socotherm has made many of these challenges. Through sophisticated studies and assessments, ranging from the development of polymeric compounds to scale trials, Socotherm has developed innovative technical solutions to meet the increasingly demanding requirements of the market.

As a result, their thermal insulation of five layers (Wetisokote ®) have helped to achieve greater depths in offshore oil exploitation, leading to the revision of the specifications in the industry for deep and ultra-deep waters.

Extending the life of the facilities, taking as premises efficiency and costs optimization, is usually one of the main clients goals. Therefore, Socotherm is actively involved in the design and specification of coating systems for air, buried or submerged pipelines, which act as systems of protection or guarantee efficiency in fluids transportaton.

This product development aims to improve standards for pipelines’ protection regarding to corrosion, thermal insulation and ballasted with concrete. In this sense, Socotherm addresses its efforts to:

•    The addition of new and better materials.

•    The development of new solutions that meet the highest demands in terms of temperature, pressure, resistance and performance in aggressive environmental conditions.

•    The implementation of new reliable and high performance industrial processes.

Thus Socotherm advances in the design of new materials and manufacturing processes to obtain solutions for each particular project.

It is this persistence in innovating what has identified Socotherm with the leadership of technological change in the protection of steel pipes.