| Industrial Galvanizers
Industrial Galvanizers |
| Industrial Galvanizers Speed, quality & VALUE With eight locations across the country and a workforce of some 350 employees, Industrial Galvanizers is the largest hot-dip galvanising (HDG) services provider in Australia. The award-winning company is a powerhouse in the protective metal coatings industry and sets the standard in providing speedy service, quality outcomes and value for money.
Industrial Galvanizers | Industrial Galvanizers was founded in Newcastle, New South Wales in 1968. The company grew significantly over the years through a series of savvy business acquisitions before eventually becoming a part of the global Valmont Group in 2010. Today, Industrial Galvanizers services a variety of sectors, including commercial and residential construction, infrastructure, manufacturing, oil and gas, mining and agriculture. They also offer a cash sales service to the public for smaller projects, such as providing coatings for boat and box trailers. According to Alex Spillett, the company’s Business Development Manager, Industrial Galvanizers’ facilities are capable of processing in excess of 150,000 tonnes of product per annum, which is “a considerable amount of coated steel.” With this level of throughput, they are able to tackle projects of all shapes and sizes. This includes major fabrications such as the Macquarie Bank Centre, Sydney Olympic Park, Austin Hospital Car Park and Star City Casino redevelopment − the latter two earning Industrial Galvanizers a pair of noteworthy accolades.
| Industrial Galvanizers
Industrial Galvanizers | Located in Melbourne, the Austin Hospital Car Park is a six-storey, 18,000 square meter multilevel extension providing the hospital with an additional 752 car spaces. Industrial Galvanizers were commissioned to provideHDG coating for the 1500 tonnes of structural steel used to build the structure “due to its long life, minimal maintenance and low whole of life cost” − in fact, the coating is expected to outlast the building’s lifespan of fifty years. For their efforts on the Austin Hospital Car Park, Industrial Galvanizers won the ‘Excellence in Hot-Dip Galvanizing International Award 2015’ from the American Galvanizers Association and were also named as finalists for the Galvanizing Association of Australia’s ‘Sorel Award 2014.’ On the $760 million Star City Casino redevelopment, Industrial Galvanizers supplied the protective metal coating for the structural steel used in the facility’s 300 tonne steel frame − which supports its internal walls and external glass façade − using the same HDG coating process. The company was selected to provide the service because “the project required a corrosion protection system that would remain maintenance-free for at least 10 years.” The Star Multi-Use Entertainment Facility earned the entire proj-
| Industrial Galvanizers ect team, including Industrial Galvanizers, the Australian Steel Institute’s 2014 National and State ‘Steel Excellence Award’ in the category for Large Building Project. In recent years, Industrial Galvanizers have developed a track record of “fulfilling promises” by consistently delivering full orders with remarkably quick turnaround times. Their proficiency in this regard has earned the company the loyalty of a substantial number of repeat clients in addition to generating a great deal of referrals. “Our customers continue to use us because of the speed of the turnaround, the reliability in terms of our delivery, the quality of work and the value for the money that we provide,” says Spillett. In order to meet the increasing demands of their growing clientele, Industrial Galvanizers maintains strong, healthy relationships with the partners in their supply chain. Over the decades, the company has formed several longstanding relationships with those parties and now enjoys a supply chain that FULFILLING PROMISES From Routine Service to Major Shut Down Industrial Galvanising Group call on Transpacific For over 20 years, Transpacific have been providing liquid waste services across the galvanising industry. • Large Purpose built & specialised DG rated Vacuum tanker fleet • Liquid Tanker Transport and Disposal Services • NATA accredited Laboratory • Emergency Spill 1800SPILLS service For the leader in Bulk Liquid Waste Services Call Australia’s largest Liquid Waste Treatment Facility 02 8748 0900 or visit www.transpacific.com.au
Industrial Galvanizers | responds quickly to its changing needs. “Whether it’s waste removal or acid or zinc supply, those things are absolutely vital to us as an organisation,” says Spillett. “If they’re not right, then the quality of our product isn’t right, so we rely on our suppliers the same way that our customers rely on us to provide value and deliver quality products on time.” The company also works very closely with the Australian Steel Institute (ASI). Already long-time members, Industrial Galvanizers have bolstered their working relationship with ASI of late and recently began sponsorship of some Institute events “in order to promote not just Industrial Galvanizers, but galvanising as an industry.” “Obviously, the steel industry promotes the use of Australian steel, but that steel also needs to be coated and protected in some way. That generally comes down to being painted, galvanised or a combination of the two,” Spillett explains. “So from that perspective, working with ASI is a real benefit to not only us, but the galvanising industry as a whole in providing a full spectrum of
| Industrial Galvanizers coating opportunities for steel fabricators, architects and engineers.” In addition to providing exceptional service, Industrial Galvanizers are also industry leaders in their commitment to sustainability − both in terms of environmental compliance and workplace health and safety. According to Spillett, those are two aspects of the business they “take very seriously and value greatly.” In terms of environmental sustainability, the company has several green initiatives in place to minimise their impact on the environment. For example, they recently made a significant investment to improve the environmental efficiency of their Newcastle site. This includes the installation of a fume capture hood over the facility’s hot zinc bath to capture, control and treat fumes that are released during the HDG process. Industrial Galvanizers also has a number of stringent safety systems and controls in place to protect their employees from the various hazards present in the protective CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
Industrial Galvanizers | metal coatings industry, such as hazardous chemicals and hot metals. “We have several protocols in place that control and manage those risks,” Spillett explains. “We also extensively train our employees, and we have a lot of long-term employees in our business who’ve been with us for 20 years plus. They clearly have a lot of experience and knowledge about our business and the risks that are involved, so we buddy those guys up with new employees and make sure new starters are familiar with the workplace hazards before working their way into other sections of the process.” In the coming years, Spillett says Industrial Galvanizers would like to achieve “worldclass sustainability” in regards to both environmental performance and workplace health and safety whilst simultaneously concentrating on the business’s top-line growth. He also acknowledges that they need to have the systems and practices in place to reach those goals as well as be able to “attract and retain the best people” for the long-term growth of the organisation.
| Industrial Galvanizers “Those are the strategic goals we have within our business, but we appreciate that none of those things are going to happen unless we service our customers to the best of our abilities and continue providing value to them,” he concludes. “That means offering end-to-end services such as ‘The Silver Bullet®’ service, which is our next day galvanising offer. That’s all part of delivering a seamless customer experience that we want to continue to improve upon over the next one to three years.”
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