Randy Nixon

President and Principal Corrosion Probe, Inc.

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Randy Nixon is President and Principal of Corrosion Probe, Inc., a corrosion engineering and asset-integrity consultancy founded in 1984 and run from Centerbrook, Connecticut. The firm occupies a narrow, technical and largely invisible niche: working out why concrete and steel are failing inside wastewater plants, pulp and paper mills and chemical facilities, and designing the coatings, linings, cathodic protection and structural repairs that stop it happening again. It is unglamorous work with real consequences, since the assets in question are digesters, clarifiers, odour-control ductwork and buried infrastructure that municipalities and industrial operators cannot easily take out of service. Nixon has led the company for more than four decades, during which it has grown from a Connecticut practice to thirteen offices across North America, and he is himself a published author on corrosion damage mechanisms in water and wastewater systems.

Career Highlights

• Has led Corrosion Probe, Inc. since its founding in 1984, a tenure of more than forty years at the same firm.
• Grew the company to thirteen offices across North America, spanning Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Delaware, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Colorado, two Texas locations and two in Florida.
• Author or co-author of seven technical papers published by CPI on corrosion in water and wastewater infrastructure.
• Presented on concrete and metal corrosion damage mechanisms in wastewater systems at the New England Water Environment Association’s 2017 conference, covering biogenic corrosion, sulfate attack, carbonation and chloride-induced corrosion.
• Wrote “How Not To Perform A Failure Analysis”, a paper on method in forensic corrosion investigation.
• Also recorded as President of Corrosion Testing Laboratories, Inc., the Newark, Delaware materials testing laboratory, though neither company’s own site states the connection.

Professional Journey

Corrosion Probe, Inc. dates from 1984, and the company describes more than forty years of delivering corrosion engineering, consulting and technical support to the pulp and paper, chemical and municipal water and wastewater industries across the United States. Nixon is its President and Principal. Aggregator records describe him as the founder; the company’s own materials do not use the word, but his tenure is coextensive with the firm’s existence.

The practice he built is multidisciplinary by design, and the service lines on CPI’s site reflect that: materials and corrosion consulting, coatings and linings, cathodic protection, mechanical integrity, integrity testing, project quality management and forensic failure analysis. The underlying argument the firm makes to clients is that corrosion prevention should be treated as a strategic part of infrastructure management rather than as reactive repair, and that lifecycle performance rather than short-term patching is the right measure. That positioning suits an owner-led consultancy competing against larger general engineering firms on depth rather than breadth.

Geographically the firm has expanded well beyond its Connecticut base, and now operates from thirteen North American offices including Houston and Austin, Tampa and Jacksonville, and locations in Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Colorado, Delaware, Massachusetts and New Jersey. A related company, Corrosion Testing Laboratories, Inc. of Newark, Delaware, provides laboratory corrosion testing, failure analysis, material characterisation and medical device testing, was likewise established in 1984, and is recorded in third-party business databases as being under Nixon’s presidency following an acquisition by CPI. Neither firm’s website states that relationship, so it should be treated as unconfirmed.

Nixon’s own visible output is technical rather than commercial. Corrosion Probe lists seven papers to his name, concentrated on the water and wastewater sector: corrosion basics for concrete and metals in wastewater applications, damage mechanisms in odour control systems, moisture vapour emissions and moisture content testing for below-grade concrete, material selection for wastewater clarifier mechanisms, design considerations for corrosion protection of anaerobic digesters, condition assessment of FRP odour control ductwork, and a paper on how not to perform a failure analysis. He took the first of these themes to the New England Water Environment Association’s 2017 conference.

Education

No education has been established for Randy Nixon. Corrosion Probe does not publish a biography for him beyond a job title and a publication list – its own content record for him contains only placeholder text – and no degree, institution or professional registration appears in his conference materials or in any other source reached.