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It was January 1, 1974 that Mr. Boris Miksic joined NACE, the world's largest Corrosion Society with over 30,000 members from all over the world. During his forty years, Boris has contributed to the organization in many ways including attending all NACE National meetings since 1975, exhibiting on behalf of Cortec Corporation at all NACE Expo's since 1976, along with attending many regional meetings and conferences including India, Middle East, Australia, China, LatinCorr, and the European Corrosion Conference and Expo. He has made many friends along the way such as Robert Legault,Professor Bavarian, Harry Byers, John Trim, Roger Staehle, Terry May, Ernie Kletchka, Hartley Duncan and Pete Rossy.
During his 40 years as a NACE member, Mr. Miksic has built one of the largest privately held corrosion protection companies in the world, Cortec® Corporation. Without a single dollar from outside investment, Cortec® has grown into four plants in the United States, one in Canada, and one in Europe, with operations in 96 countries. He holds 43 US and foreign patents in the field of corrosion protection, which have been developed into the most advanced line of corrosion inhibitors, consisting of over 500 chemical products and systems. Boris has had 150 Publications in international technical magazines and seminars and has been compiling for years, the definitive manual, "Preservation, Lay-up, and Mothballing Handbook" for Equipment and Plants, in its 3rd edition, which is now over 971 pages.
NACE has recognized Boris throughout the past for his dedication and service to the field of corrosion protection. He has been commended with the following NACE awards: NACE Fellow (2000), NACE International Distinguished Organization Award and the NACE International Frank Newman Speller Award for contributions to the practice of corrosion engineering both at CORROSION/2004, and the Readers' Choice Award, Materials Performance Magazine (NACE), 2013.
Boris has had an impact on the corrosion control culture by serving as the Chairman of NACE Symposia on Volatile Corrosion Inhibitors (VCI's) 1976, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1994 and 1997; Chairman of NACE Task Groups T-3A-4, T-3A-12, and T-5J-2; and Officer of the Twin City Chapter of NACE (1985/1986). As a contributor to the NACE Handbook on Corrosion Inhibitors (1989), with initiated efforts sponsored by Unit Committee T-3A, which resulted in consensus approval of NACE RP0487-
2000 a Recommended Practice: "Considerations in the Selection and Evaluation of Rust Preventives and Vapor Corrosion Inhibitors for Interim (Temporary) Corrosion Protection". He has had 14 papers presented at NACE technical and research symposia's, 9 papers published in Materials Performance Magazine, and 1 paper published in Corrosion Magazine. He has been the invited lecturer to many NACE Chapters: Twin Cities (4), Greater Boston MA (3), LatinCorr (3), International Chinese Anti- Corrosion Conference (3), Chicago IL (2), Lafayette LA, Ponca City OK, Corpus Christi and Beaumont TX, Detroit MI, Northern Indiana, Dammam Saudi Arabia, North Central Regional Ines and Boris receiving the 2013 Reader's Choice Award, Materials Performance Magazine. Meetings in Minneapolis MN and Columbus OH, the Australian Corrosion Society Sydney, Technology Institute Moscow, JETRO Tokyo, and the NACE India Section Mumbai.
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