20 million annual maintenance! The Sydney Harbour Bridge’s use of ferrous alloy presents a significant challenge in terms of protecting the structure from the ravages of corrosion. It is indeed a cruel irony that our most-used alloy for structures, steel, is also the one most damaged by exposure to the…
There seems to be a lot of confusion about the sustainability and longevity of galvanizing – Galvanizing Process. Hot-dip galvanizing is the process of immersing iron or steel in a bath of molten zinc to produce a corrosion resistant, multi-layered coating of zinc-iron alloy and zinc metal. The process is…
Above: Stephen Pollard, Ron Pollard and Brian Coates of APG Galvanizing The annual Australian Galvanizers Association (GAA) conference was once again held to present new innovations in Hot- dip galvanizing to the industry and of course relax with colleagues and associates for a few days as we draw closer to the…
Pollards Galvanizing was founded by Ron Pollard in 1966 in the industrial suburb of Bungalow, Cairns. From day one, the mission was to “treat everyone like family” whilst providing a service of the highest quality. Some 20 years later moved to Kenny Street, Portsmith where the APG offices still sit today….
No other protective coating for steel provides the long life durability and predictable performance of hot dip galvanizing: THA’S WHY THOSE IN THE KNOW – HOT DIP! BENEFITS: Competitive first cost: For many applications, the first cost is lower than alternative coatings Long Life: Often exceeding 30 years Lowest Lifetime…
Since 1967 APG has listened to you the fisherman, to come up with the most efficient trawl door on the Australian market today. The Bison trawl door will save you around 15% on fuel costs, it can be trawled at optimum speed a lower engine RPM with maximum net spread…
An extensive structural modification to APG’s galvanizing process facility at Stuart in Townsville modifying the back wall of the pickling line now allows easy change out of any of the 10t capacity 28m span crane beams. Apg General Manager Trevor Raiteri said “Any of the 4 crane beams in the…
The ABC ran a news story about the fact the the Australian Steel Industry has issued a warning over the quality of the steel coming into Australia and being used on large infrastructure projects. Many industry expects are unfortunately predicating a failure in some low quality steel, and could cause…
Earlier this year (April 2015) APG galvanized 2 bridge head stock beams for PNG bridge. These beams weighed 19.08 Tonne each. The Beams were made in Newcastle and transported to Townsville for galvanizing. Modern galvanizing plants require 2 key abilities to attempt a dip of the nature. Galvanizing bath size and overhead crane…
On the October long Australian Professional Galvanizing perform some critical weekend shutdown work. An upgrade of main dipping crane 2 with new hoists ,increased our crane lifting capacity up from 6.5T to 12.0T. We have a project planned for late 2015 to replace the beams. Australian Professional Galvanizing Townsville, Mackay, Cairns, Rockhampton,…
