Safe and sustainable stainless steel pickling

Our special guest for episode two of the chair on air podcast is Eric Ardourel, technical expert in steel and multi-metal pretreatments.

Eric Ardourel
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Eric Ardourel is our special guest for episode two of the chair on air podcast.

He is a technical expert in steel and multi-metal pretreatments, and speaks about safe and sustainable stainless steel pickling solutions that do not contain any nitric acid. Eric has almost 20 years of experience in this application and is passionate about innovations that protect metals – while protecting people and the planet too.

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Find out about safe and sustainable stainless steel pickling
Learn why Eric Ardourel is passionate about metals, people and the planet
Discover Henkel's nitric acid free solutions

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