Diffusion coatings for the protection of iron and steel: Part 3: Zinc Available to Purchase

Zinc coatings are applied commercially by hot‐dipping, electro‐deposition, metal‐spraying, cementation and vacuum deposition (see Table 5). Galvanizing (zinc hot‐dipping) has been done for more than 200 years now and is undoubtedly the most widely‐used form of metal coating. The production and pro‐perties of these coatings have received intensive study over the last 10 years; much of this has been reported at the ‘International Conferences on Hot‐Dip Galvanizing’.