Kerou InstituteKEROU

Solutions

Solutions

Sector-by-sector strategies for China’s six national networks, reaching three tiers of customers from the top down.

Three customer tiers

01

Network operators

Network owners, pipeline companies, power grids, water groups

Needs

Data foundations, networked observation, smart O&M

02

Industry leaders

Steel, wind power, high-speed rail, offshore, petrochemicals, bridges

Needs

Corrosion-resistant materials, coatings, cathodic protection, inhibitors

03

High-end equipment

Chips, aerospace, nuclear power, hydrogen equipment

Needs

ppb-level atmospheric corrosion monitoring and reliability assessment

Six network sectors

Urban underground networks

Perforation and stray-current monitoring, smart cathodic protection, hazard remediation

~RMB 5 trillion in the 15th Five-Year Plan

New-type power grid

Corrosion monitoring and life extension for towers, grounding grids, cables and renewables

RMB 5 trillion+ in the 15th Five-Year Plan

National computing network

Corrosion and aging monitoring for liquid cooling and computing equipment

RMB 7 trillion+ across the networks in 2026

Next-gen communications

ppb-level atmospheric corrosion of base stations and chips, micro-scale reliability

Chip industry above RMB 1 trillion

National water network

Coupled water-quality and corrosion monitoring, trend forecasting and zoned alerts

Shared need of backbone projects

Oil & gas / Nuclear / Offshore

Service safety of long-distance pipelines, nuclear facilities and deep-sea structures

Nuclear branch center established

High-end equipment

Chip reliability: the hidden bottleneck in domestic substitution

China’s chip industry passed RMB 1 trillion in the first half of 2026. With tiny devices and complex processes, corrosion has become a key constraint on chip reliability — and aerospace, offshore engineering, rail transit, nuclear power and hydrogen storage demand the same stability and long service life.

641

A+H listed chip companies

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Of them focused on corrosion-resistant materials

ppb

In-situ monitoring of sulfur-bearing atmospheres and electronics, a first in China