Hi, I'm Stuie
Let's stop corrosion.

Most coatings harden over time, develop internal stresses, and eventually crack or debond. Stopaq stays permanently fluid-like — it flows into every micro-irregularity and maintains 100% contact with the substrate forever. No ageing, no internal stress, no failure modes that traditional coatings suffer from.

Visco‑elastic refers to how a coating behaves, not a single material. It describes a polymer that stays permanently flexible and adhesive, allowing it to conform to surfaces and provide long‑term corrosion protection. The key difference between visco‑elastic coatings is the polymer used. STOPAQ uses polyisobutene (PIB), a polymer proven to deliver permanent adhesion, flexibility and corrosion prevention—performance that not all visco‑elastic coatings can achieve.

Most premature coating failures don’t happen in service—they happen during application. Pipelines are built and rehabilitated in real‑world conditions: heat, cold, rain, condensation, flowing product, expanding and contracting steel.

Many conventional coatings struggle with this. They need dry surfaces, tight temperature windows or heating during application. Miss those conditions, and the coating can disbond before the pipeline is ever operational.

STOPAQ is different. It can be applied in cold or hot conditions, on wet substrates, and even when temperatures fluctuate. It doesn’t cure, harden or rely on perfect application conditions to perform.

By making the coating more forgiving—and easier to apply in the field—STOPAQ reduces application‑related risk and prevents failures before they have a chance to start.

While we designed everything around buried pipes and components in the early days for cold temperature applications like the Netherlands, where we originate from, we had to adapt the products with different viscosities, etc, for other climates around the world.

From buried we went to risers, from there to atmospheric conditions. Today we like to say ‘1 product 1001 solutions’ – scaling the heights of Wind Turbines to Subsea applications. We are always open to new challenges and new applications.

When it comes to creativity it’s what you can do with the product; the sky’s the limit, we just like to stay focused at being the best in what we do – corrosion prevention.