ANODIZED
Description: A coating of aluminum oxide.
Benefits:
- Much harder than the aluminum it replaces giving it excellent wear and abrasion resistance
- Will not chip, peel or flake over time
- Provides good stability
- Ease of maintenance
- Will not show fingerprints
- Offers a large number of gloss and color alternatives
- Allows the aluminum to maintain its metallic appearance
- A lower initial finishing cost
- Will not decompose
- Non-toxic
- Heat-resistant to the melting point of aluminum
- Various mil thicknesses available based on individual applications
POWDER COATED
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Description: Powder coating is a dry finishing process, using finely ground particles of pigment and resin that are generally electrostatically charged and sprayed onto electronically ground parts.
Benefits:
- Environmentally friendly
- Resistant to chipping, cracking, peeling and corrosion
- Bending Flexibility
- Color selection is nearly unlimited
- Clear finishes available
- Many texture selections
- Ideal for aluminum & steel grating, fencing, handrail or architectural applications
GALVANIZED
Description: Immersing clean, oxide-free iron or steel into molten zinc in order to form a zinc coating that is metallurgically bonded to the iron or steels' surface.
Benefits:
- Lower in cost
- Life expectancy is in excess of 50 years in most rural environments, and 20 to 25 years plus, even in severe urban and coastal exposure
- Outstanding resistance
- Corrode preferentially to steel, providing cathodic protection to small areas of steel exposed through damage
- Every part is protected, even recesses, sharp corners and inaccessible areas
- Ease of inspection
- Faster erection time
KYNAR
Description: A Fluoropolymer Coating system. The carbon/fluorine bond (one of the strongest known to man) is the key to the coating's unsurpassed thermal, chemical and ultra violet resistance.
Benefits:
- Out performs polyester powder, urethane, silicone polyester and acrylic coatings
- Color & Gloss retention
- Resistance to chalking
- Meets or exceeds the physical test performance criteria of the Architectural Spray Coaters Association (ASCA 96) and the American Architectural Manufacturers Association (AAMA 2605.2)
- Delivers long-term durability
- Available in a rainbow of textures, sheens and colors, including micas, metallics and pearlescents
- Corrosion & Stain resistant
Slip Resistant Finishes
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SlipNot®
Description: A plasma stream deposition process applying molten metal to a metal substrate.
Benefits:
- Provides the longest wear life and maximum slip resistance available
- Results in a surface hardness of over 55 on the Rockwell "C" scale
- Provides 100% surface coverage
- Unparalleled durability and traction
- Available in Steel, Stainless Steel and Aluminum
- Cost effective
- Grit-free
- NSF approved
- Ideal for lightweight, rust free safety
- Increases productivity and worker safety
Algrip™
Description: This product is designed to provide safe walking and working surfaces wherever dusty, oily or a wet environment that creates hazardous conditions. CNC laser applied slip-resistant material is added to mill supplied sheets & plates available on Carbon and Stainless Steel grating.
Benefits:
- Reduction of lost production time
- Provides unparalleled slip-resistance in all directions
- Provides superior safety & increased pedestrian comfort
- Easily manufactured into finished components using common metal working tools & machinery
- Extremely durable
- Easily punched, drilled or welded
- Can be fabricated to size
- Provides unsurpassed service life
