Hot dip galvanized coatings for steel fabrications ‐ an outstanding track record

In 1742, the French chemist Melouin presented a paper to the French Royal Academy in which he described how a zinc coating could be applied to iron by dipping it into molten zinc. The first patents covering the ‘galvanizing’ process were taken out in France and England during the 1830's; the name being taken from that of the Italian physiologist Luigi Galvani who observed that electric current could be generated when dissimilar metals are brought into contact.