Europe's second largest steel producer Corus has announced that it is to launch a new hot dip zinc-based metallic coating called MagiZinc which is characterized by superior anti-corrosion properties.
Corus has already begun production of MagiZinc at its hot rolled, cold rolled and metallic-coated steels facility at IJmuiden in The Netherlands.
With the new coating, consumers will make significant savings in total costs for all applications that currently use thin hot dip galvanized steel with a zinc coating of 275 g/m2. The resulting thinner and lighter coating layers result in up to four percent more square meters of coating material available per metric ton.
Corus states that, in the trial tests of the new coating, corrosion resistance appeared to be at least four times more effective than the same coating thickness for zinc galvanized products.
Following the launch of the new product, Corus aims to replace products with a 275 g/m2 zinc coating with a MagicZinc coating of 140g/m2, and even thinner coating layers are being developed.
Corus Strip Products IJmuiden (The Netherlands) is one of the largest and most efficient integrated steelmaking facilities in Europe with a production capacity of 7.5 million metric tons a year.