Joseph Ash Galvanizing Videos

Joseph Ash Galvanizing’s corporate video. You’ll see inside our plants, meet our team, and understand how much importance we place on providing a high-quality service to all our customers.

We walk through the hot dip galvanizing process from start to finish, featuring footage from inside a Joseph Ash Galvanizing plant.

When fabricating steel, ensure it’s designed correctly for the hot dip galvanizing process. Not only will this maximise the effectiveness of the zinc coating, but it will also prevent health and safety issues during the galvanizing process. Watch our ‘Design for galvanizing’ for useful design hints and tips.

When you’ve been in business for over 160 years, you know success amounts to how much people trust you. We’ve been trusted by 1000s of the UK’s metal fabricators, architects and construction companies to protect the UK’s steel with hot dip galvanizing.

As a large company with nine plants across the UK, we have the skills, tools, facilities, capacity and knowledge to provide everything steel fabricators need when it comes to steel protection. Hot dip galvanizing, powder coating, shot blasting, duplex coatings… we do it all!

All about our collection and delivery service. The ability to collect and deliver steel is very important to us as we like to make life as easy as possible for our customers. With one of the largest truck fleets for a galvanizer in the UK, we can manage the logistics and distribution for your projects.

We’ve been protecting the UK’s steel since 1857. Our hot dip galvanizing service has been relied on and trusted by UK companies just like yours for over 160 years.

We also have a range of accreditations, including BS EN ISO 1461 and many others.

Queen Aethelflaed, sculpted by artist Luke Perry, for Tamworth, being dipped into a hot dip galvanizing bath to protect her from rust and corrosion for years to come.

An animation showing the potential health and safety consequences of hot dip galvanizing a fabrication that has been incorrectly vented. Process chemicals can become trapped in steel during hot dip galvanizing, resulting in super-heated steam and zinc explosion. Following correct venting guidelines ensures your fabrication does not build up process chemicals. Stage 14 onwards shows how to avoid trapped chemicals by drilling ventilation holes, making the galvanizing process successful.

Animation showing what happens when a plate that is incorrectly welded to a structural beam is dipped into a galvanizing bath. Stage 9 onwards shows how to correctly weld the steel using a “stitch welding” technique to avoid trapped air and explosion.

Animation showing the importance of correctly placed ventilation holes when open-ended box sections are fabricated to an SHS post. This also applies to CHS fabrications such as gates. Stage 4 onwards shows what happens to the steel when it is hot dip galvanized without these vent holes.

Animation showing how incorrectly placed or an insufficient number of ventilation holes on a hollow post causes trapped air and process chemicals, resulting in explosion. It is important that the steel fabrications are sufficiently vented to allow trapped air and process chemicals to escape. Stage 8 onwards shows the correct way to vent a hollow steel post to avoid explosion.