EMPIT at CEOCOR 2026 in Rotterdam: CMI Inspection and Rehabilitation Planning for Grey and Cast Iron Water Lines

EMPIT was in Rotterdam for the 70th edition of the CEOCOR International Congress and Technical Exhibition, held aboard the historic SS Rotterdam. One of Europe's most substantive annual gatherings for cathodic protection specialists and pipeline corrosion engineers, CEOCOR brings together operators, researchers, and technology providers who take the subject seriously.

Grey and cast iron water mains represent one of the most challenging asset classes in urban water infrastructure. They are ageing, widely distributed, frequently undocumented, and in many cases effectively unpiggable. When these pipes fail, the consequences are visible and disruptive. When they are approaching failure, conventional inspection methods often cannot tell you that in time.

Current Magnetometry Inspection (CMI) offers water network operators a practical alternative. The presentation walked through how CMI's above-ground, non-intrusive approach can be applied directly to grey and cast iron networks: mapping the pipeline route, identifying hotspots for possible integrity risks, and assessing corrosion risk along the full line to generate structural integrity data that rehabilitation planning requires. CMI delivers this without shutting down supply, without excavation, and without inline tools that these pipe types were never designed to accommodate. For water utilities facing the challenge of prioritising rehabilitation spend across large, heterogeneous networks, the ability to generate reliable condition data at scale is exactly what better decision-making looks like.

EMPIT was also present as an exhibitor, bringing CMI's innovative inspection technology to a wide international audience of cathodic protection and corrosion professionals.