Galvanizing: Your Best Choice For Steel Protection

1) Competitive First Coat
For most applications, the cost of galvanizing is lower than that of applying alternative coatings. Furthermore galvanizing has been getting steadily cheaper compared with painting.

2) Lower Life Time Cost
Low initial cost and long life make galvanizing the most versatile and economical way of protecting steel for long periods.

3) The Economic Case Is Still Improving
The high labour cost inherent in the application of most other protective coatings makes the economic case for galvanizing improving all the time.

4) Long Life
Well-documented years of experience have proven the benefits of hot dip galvanize protection. Lifetime of 20-40 years are common in industrial and marine applications, and 50-100 years in less aggresive environments.

5) Reliability
The galvanizing coating is bonded metallurgically to the base steel so that it becomes part of the steel surface it protects. Coating life and performances are reliable and predictable.

6) Coating Touchness
A galvanized coating has a unique metallurgical structure that gives outstanding resistance to mechanical damage in transport, erection and service.

7) Elimination Of Maintenance For Extended Periods
Maintenance is deferred for very long periods compared to other coatings for steel. In steel protection, maintenance can be extremely expensive when it entails difficult access, or plant shutdowns or in remote locations.

8) Reliable Automatic Protection For Damaged Areas
Galvanized coatings provide automatic cathodic protection to small areas of steel exposed through damage to the coating. Unlike other coatings, no touch-up is needed.

9) Complete Protection
Every part of a galvanized structure is fully protected, even recesses, sharp corners and inaccessible areas. No coating applied to a structure after fabrication can provide

10) Ease Of Inspection
Galvanized coating thinkness is controlled automatically by steel thickness and a standard, minimum coating mass results. Soundness and continuity of coatings are readily judged by eyes.

11) Time Saving In Factory & On Site
Galvanizing is faster than painting, and elimination of site painting can save enormous time in site erection & assembly.

12) Mechanical Properties
Galvanizing has no effect on the mechanical properties of commonly galvanized structure steel.