More and more galvanized steel material was chosen to building construction, why?

No other protective coating for steel provides the long life, durability and predictable performance of hot dip galvanizing.

As asset management and life-cycle costing become even more essential, after fabrication galvanizing provides the facility to design for a predictable, engineered result.

Galvanizing is a once only process, committed to the concept of the maintenance-free use of steel, ensuring long service life and virtually eliminating disruptive maintenance.

This long-term protection is well documented world-wide in terms ahead of any other protective coating, and galvanizing continues to find new applications in almost every field of engineering.

Hot dip galvanizing protects steel from corrosion by providing a thick, tough, metallurgically bonded zinc envelope, which completely covers the steel surface and seals it from the corrosive action of its environment.

The galvanized coating provides outstanding abrasion resistance. Where there is damage or minor discontinuity in the sealing coat of zinc, protection of the steel is maintained by the cathodic action of the surrounding galvanized coating.

Metallic zinc is strongly resistant to the corrosive action of normal environments and hot dip galvanized coatings therefore provide long-term protection for steel.

The galvanizing process produces a durable, abrasion-resistant coating of metallic zinc and zinc-iron alloy layers bonded metallurgically to the steel base and completely covering the work piece. No other coating for steel matches galvanizing’s unique combination of properties and advantages:

1. For most classes of steelwork, galvanizing provides the lowest longterm cost. In many cases galvanizing also provides lowest initial cost.

2. The galvanized coating becomes part of the steel surface it protects.

3. The unique metallurgical structure of the galvanized coating provides outstanding toughness and resistance to mechanical damage in transport, erection and service.

4. The galvanized coating is subject to corrosion at a predictably slow rate, between one-seventeenth and one eightieth that of steel, depending on the environment to which it is exposed.

5. Galvanizing’s cathodic protection for steel ensures that small areas of the base steel exposed through severe impacts or abrasion, are protected from corrosion by the surrounding galvanized coating.

6. An inherent advantage of the process is that a standard minimum coating thickness is applied.