04 November 2026
LNEC Assistant Researcher Rute Fontinha and Senior Technician Pedro Galego participated in the event commemorating QUALISTEELCOAT’s 20th anniversary, which took place in Aveiro.
The event, organized by APAL - the Portuguese Aluminum Association - brought together national and international experts, as well as industry professionals, to discuss topics such as steel surface treatment, certification, and coating performance.
The LNEC team, in its capacity as an inspection body and testing laboratory, gave an oral presentation titled “Requirements for granting a QUALISTEELCOAT licence to steel coaters".
The purpose of LNEC's presentation was to provide guidelines and technical support to those companies interested in obtaining this international quality label certification in the future.
