Chemcoaters Offers Cost-Saving Twist on Galvanized

Chemcoaters and its Eco-Green Coatings subsidiary say they are winning over skeptics who doubt the company’s claims it can dramatically lower the cost of galvanized steel with its InterCoat ChemGuard coating. Mike Tieri, vice president of sales and marketing for the Gary, Ind., toll coater, says the product continues to gain converts. “There’s a Who’s Who of manufacturers and major mills doing testing now. We are really working hard to get the mills to apply the coating because it will simplify the logistics and be so much more cost effective.”

InterCoat ChemGuard’s proprietary chemistry, developed by Chemcoaters, is designed to generate a permanent covalent reaction with any zinc or zinc-alloy coated substrate, bonding to the surface. “It is not a barrier coating. It won’t rub off,” Tieri says. The coating can improve the corrosion resistance of galvanized steel by a factor of 8-10 times, he adds, and in some cases users can achieve the corrosion protection they need with a less expensive grade of galvanized.