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Corrosion test kits for data centers.

Corrosive gases such as hydrogen sulfide, sulfur and nitrogen oxides, chlorine and ozone — combined with humidity and particulates — silently degrade servers, boards and cabling long before a failure is visible. Lead-free (RoHS) electronics are more susceptible to this damage than the equipment they replaced. Our corrosion testing gives you defensible, standards-referenced evidence of the risk to your hardware before it becomes downtime, data loss or an early refresh.

ANSI/ISA-71.04-2013
ISO 14644-1 aligned
Swiss laboratory
Worldwide service
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Zurich, Switzerland

The Cost of Corrosion

Corrosion is a leading, and largely invisible, cause of hardware failure.

There is no single figure that applies to every facility, but broad industry impact assessments point in the same direction: environmental contamination — corrosive gases and particulates included — is a major driver of unplanned data center downtime, and it is preventable with early evidence.

~57%

Of unplanned downtime

Industry impact assessments attribute roughly 57% of unplanned downtime events to broader environmental failures — including corrosion-induced faults, dust-driven cooling inefficiencies and the thermal runaway that follows.

~70%

Of hardware failures

Up to 70% of component-level failures — motherboards, drives and other boards — are attributed to environmental factors rather than software bugs or manufacturing defects alone.

Sulfur & Chlorine Gases

Hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) and sulfur dioxide (SO₂) react with the silver and copper used throughout modern, miniaturized circuit boards.

Creep Corrosion

Microscopic corrosion whiskers grow across circuit boards, bridging electrical gaps and causing catastrophic short circuits.

Deliquescent Dust

Fine particulates settle on electronics and absorb moisture from the air; once relative humidity crosses a threshold, the dust becomes a conductive sludge that drives corrosive arcing.

Corrosive downtime accelerated through the late 2000s and 2010s alongside two industry shifts: the move to lead-free (RoHS) materials and wider adoption of free cooling with outside air. Our testing is how you get ahead of it — with defensible evidence, not guesswork.

Our Products

Four ways to evidence
and reduce your environmental risk.

One independent partner. Every report defensible for due diligence, SLA, warranty and insurance review.

ANSI/ISA-71.04-2013 copper-and-silver coupon corrosion classification card

01 · Test Kit · Corrosion Risk Assessment

ANSI/ISA-71.04-2013 Corrosion Kit

A 30-day coupon test to ANSI/ISA-71.04-2013 — the corrosion standard your hardware warranty most likely references. Copper-and-silver coupons measure the contaminants that quietly kill electronics, and you get UPS shipping plus a full laboratory report grading severity from G1 to GX.

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CorrCard rack corrosion indicator — copper element beside a sealed copper reference

02 · Rack Indicator · See corrosion at a glance

CorrCard™

See corrosion at a glance, on every rack. A peel-and-stick copper corrosion indicator beside a sealed reference of the same copper. At install they look identical — and one look tells you whether the air around that rack is still clean. No instrument, no login, no guesswork. When your copper darkens away from the reference, peel it off and send it in for a certified lab read.

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CorrDust surface dust corrosivity test

03 · Surface Dust Test · Corrosivity Report

CorrDust™

A surface-dust corrosivity test for data centres and technical rooms. It adds corrosive ionic contamination, surface conductivity and pH to your evidence base — graded against ISO 8502-9 and EOS/ESD-S4.1.

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ChlorAir airborne chloride sampling card

04 · Air Sampling Card · Airborne Chloride Report

ChlorAir™

Measure the corrosion potential before the corrosion itself. The ChlorAir™ kit places a passive sampling card in your technical space to measure airborne chloride deposition over time — flagging the chemical risk while it is still building, long before pitting, contact failure or trace damage becomes visible.

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How It Works

Simple to start.
Rigorous to deliver.

Whichever product you choose, the path to a certified report is the same three steps.

01

Choose a Product

Order the ANSI/ISA-71.04 corrosion kit, deploy CorrCard on your racks, or run a CorrDust surface test.

02

Measure & Return

A short onsite scan — or deploy the samplers yourself and send them back to our Swiss lab.

03

Get Certified Results

Our Swiss laboratory processes the data and returns a defensible, standards-referenced report you can rely on for due diligence.

Why Technology Care

Independent evidence that stands up to scrutiny.

We sell measurement and analysis — not hardware. That independence is what makes our reports credible as due-diligence evidence for warranty, SLA, insurance and audit review.

01

Swiss Laboratory Processing

Every audit and every sampler is analyzed centrally in Switzerland, so results are consistent and comparable across all your sites.

02

Standards-Referenced Reports

Results are reported against ANSI/ISA-71.04-2013, ISO 14644-1, ISO 8502-9, ASHRAE and LEED — the frameworks your stakeholders recognize.

03

Worldwide Through Partners

Kit fulfilment reaches data centers anywhere, delivered through our trained partner network.

Sustainability

The same measurements that protect hardware
also cut carbon and waste.

Independent evidence for your ESG, Scope 3 and circular-economy reporting — not claims, but data.

A large share of a data center’s carbon footprint is locked in before a server is ever switched on — in the manufacturing of the hardware itself. Every year of additional equipment life avoids that embodied carbon and keeps hardware out of the e-waste stream. The environmental conditions we measure — temperature, cooling airflow and air quality — are precisely what determine whether your equipment reaches its design life or fails early. That makes our reports a defensible input to your sustainability narrative, especially as efficiency-driven free-cooling strategies pull more outside air, and its contaminants, into the data hall.

Corrosion & Air Quality Monitoring

Extend Hardware Life, Reduce E-Waste

Corrosive gases and airborne particulates shorten equipment life and force premature, wasteful refreshes. Our ANSI/ISA-71.04 corrosion testing and CorrCard™ rack indicators give early warning of these risks before they degrade hardware — supporting a circular, repair-and-retain approach over a buy-and-scrap one.

Free-Cooling Safeguard

Pursue Efficiency Without Hidden Risk

Air-side economization is one of the biggest energy levers in the data center — but the large volumes of outside air it draws in can raise contamination and corrosion risk. Independent measurement lets you push efficiency confidently, with evidence that your hardware environment is still within safe limits.

ESG & Scope 3 Documentation

Reporting That Stands Up to Scrutiny

As disclosure rules such as CSRD and emerging Scope 3 requirements take hold, operators need defensible, independent evidence — not unverified claims. Our certified, standards-referenced Swiss-lab reports document the conditions behind extended equipment life, ready to support an audit, a board review or a sustainability disclosure.

ASHRAE Thermal Guidelines ANSI/ISA-71.04-2013 ISO 14644-1 LEED v4 (TVOC) PUE Improvement Scope 3 / Embodied Carbon Circular Economy

Technology Care provides independent measurement and analysis — we evidence the environmental conditions that support energy efficiency and longer hardware life. We do not supply cooling, abatement or remediation hardware, and reported energy savings depend on each facility’s current configuration.

Get Started

Ready to evidence your environmental risk?

Tell us which product fits your facility and our team will take it from there — the ANSI/ISA-71.04 corrosion kit, the CorrCard rack indicator, CorrDust surface testing, or ChlorAir airborne chloride monitoring.

  • ANSI/ISA-71.04-2013 corrosion testing
  • CorrCard, CorrDust & ChlorAir shipped worldwide
  • Certified Swiss laboratory reports

Talk to Technology Care

Choose a product to get started, or contact us directly with your requirements.

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