Factory Finished Color on Hot Dip Galvanizing

The problem today is Architects and Engineers alike, are faced with increasing client demands to create steel structures that are aesthetically pleasing, without sacrificing the benefits of long-term maintenance free corrosion protection.

The solution is a duplex system with a high quality color coating over top of hot dip galvanizing.

The answer is GALVATONE.

GALVATONE systems are specially designed for application over hot dip galvanized steel.

GALVATONE is available in a wide range of architectural and industrial colors and offers a number of optional types of finish for different applications, making the system suitable for every conceivable situation.

The standard silver-grey of hot dip galvanizing is sometimes unacceptable in visual terms, yet its protective virtues are undenaible.  The traditional response has been not to galvanize the steel but to blast the surface and then apply conventional, multi-coat paints.  White this produces a result, it requires costly surface preparation and is no longer the most effective method of protection, especially where long-term maintenance free systems are demanded.  GALVATONE solves this problem.

The Success of the System

The under film protection by hot dip galvanizing ensures the steel base has the very best and most reliable protective coating.  In fact, hot dip galvanizing provides envelope protection.  All parts of a fabrication, be it corners, narrow gaps, internal surfaces and other areas difficult or impossible to clean by mechanical blasting are firstly chemically cleaned and then totally hot dip galvanized.  This is the reason that makes hot dip galvanizing the preferred choice of methods for providing excellent corrosion protection.

The need to "dress up" the familiar galvanized color, has often created problems, in as much as the conventional paints have frequently proven to be reactive with the zinc base, and the smooth finish of galvanizing makes it difficult to get good adhesion.  The result is failure of the color coating within the first year.