Business View Magazine | December 2019

166 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2019 ZERUST OI L & GAS (Brazil), Shell (Malaysia), ADMA-OPCO, and FMC Technologies (USA). The team leverages NTIC’s global network of trained corrosion management professionals and channel partners to deliver products, provide local support, conduct client training, and participate in solution field trials. In addition, the R&D group works with companies like Chevron, Petrobras, and Enbridge to develop specialized corrosion mitigation solutions and shared intellectual property technologies. The Zerust team has state-of-the-art laboratory facilities in Beachwood, Ohio, and Circle Pines, Minnesota, that are used for primary corrosion research, product development, joint R&D with clients, and analysis of field test data. “With Zerust Oil & Gas and our corrosion management services, we’re in over 70 countries,” Ramdas continues. “We operate through a network of joint venture partners of whom we own 50 percent. We have about 29 joint ventures around the world, so you can think of those as 29 offices around the world. In the United States, we have our headquarters in Minnesota and the R&D for oil and gas in Ohio. We’ve got seven labs around the world that cater to doing R&D projects and client testing and supplier product evaluations and things like that. We have over a hundred employees in the United States, alone, and another couple hundred across the world across all the joint ventures. Though the parent company is Northern Technology International Corporation, or NTIC, our customers know us by our Zerust brand. Over the years, we found more people know us as the Zerust guys than those guys from NTIC, so as a branding experiment we’ve kind of gone to marketing as Zerust Oil & Gas rather than Northern Technologies.” Zerust Oil & Gas is a world leader in protecting bare metals from corrosion using Vapor Corrosion Inhibitors (VCIs). Since moisture and contaminants in the atmosphere react with the metal surfaces and cause corrosion, VCIs can be used to protect these metal parts from corrosion VP of Global Market Development, Gautam Ramdas