[TheForge] Re: trade secrets

[schade at acegroup.cc]

On Nov 25, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Mike wrote:

>  "You know what the secret is to good galvanizing?"  Of
> course, I didn't.  From his back pocket he produced a stick of shiny
> metal, kinda furtively, as if we were going to swap knives and didn't
> want anybody to see us.  "That's it, right there, you need just a
> touch of that", he said, and put it back in his pocket with a bit of a
> smirk and wouldn't say any more about it.
>
> Who knows?
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found this...

Sendzimir process

 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sendzimir process (named after Tadeusz Sendzimir) is used to galvanize 
a steel strip by using a small amount of aluminum in the zinc bath and 
producing a coating with essentially no iron-zinc alloy. The process 
guarantees high resistance and durability characteristics. About 75% of 
hydrogen was needed in the original Sendzimir process but all the newer 
nonoxidizing methods of degreasing require only 7—15%¹. The rolling of 
hot steel slabs by the Sendzimir process requires a much smaller 
operational area than a continuous hot-strip mill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendzimir_process