NEW RELEASE! Parker SuparShield™ Advanced Corrosion Management Technology

HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, USA (FEBRUARY, 2025)

SuparShield™ is Parker’s next generation processing technology for performance enhancement of stainless steels, developed to mitigate premature failures caused by:

• Corrosion (Stress Corrosion Cracking, Pitting, Hydrogen Embrittlement etc.)

• Fatigue (Thermal, High Cycle, and Low Cycle Fatigue, such as vibration)

With careful modifications to various stages of product design and manufacturing, Parker SuparShield™ selectively mitigates the undesirable attributes and provides a solution where the product strength is not compromised and yet, its corrosion and fatigue resistance is significantly improved – a true ‘best of both'.

Conventional austenitic stainless -steel grades such as 316/316L have served as the alloys of choice for several energy markets, including conventional oil and gas. With the advent of clean technology and new alternative fuels, hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs), these applications see increasingly more corrosive environments and critical ranges of pressure and temperature.

This has often led to more frequent and more severe corrosion attacks – especially those related to stress corrosion cracking, hydrogen embrittlement and pitting. The need to mitigate these issues has led to increased adoption of higher alloyed stainless materials. This choice often results in compromises such as significantly higher costs and longer lead times.

Scientists and engineers at Parker have combined our modern understanding of these corrosion failure modes and mechanisms along with years of research and testing and created a novel processing technology for the most demanding of these applications. 

This next generation corrosion management technology, called SuparShield™, provides a giant leap in corrosion performance at competitive costs, providing an added option to the end-user looking for the best available – safest solution for their applications.

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About Parker’s Instrumentation Products Division
The Instrumentation Products Division provides highly engineered pressure and temperature process control instrumentation and systems. These range from compression tube fittings, cone and thread fittings, needle valves, ball valves and compact stream-switching valves to modular process and instrument valve packages. These items are all developed and manufactured to increase customers’ up-time, maintain safety, and improve production and quality control. Learn more at www.parker.com/ipd.

 

About Parker Hannifin
Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, the company has been enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow. Learn more at www.parker.com or @parkerhannifin.