Videos

Look at the new Joseph Ash Galvanizing 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.

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 eight 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!

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.

With a range of different bath sizes across our eight different plants, no matter how large or small your steel fabrication, we can help.

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We’ve been protecting the UK’s steel with hot dip galvanizing, shot blasting and powder coating since 1857.

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Going the extra mile… When choosing a company to galvanize steel, choose one large enough to provide a multitude of extra services. We’re the right company to make your life easier.

This is a video by the Galvanizers Association. It shows the galvanizing process from degreasing, rinsing, the chemical clean, further rinsing, flux, drying, galvanizing, to quenching.

This video – produced by the Galvanizers Association – shows the coating formation that occurs during the galvanization of steel.

Queen, sculpted by artist Luke Perry, for Tamworth, being dipped into a hot dip galvanizing bath at Joseph Ash Telford. Stunning even before galvanizing!

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. Magnificent!

Queen Aethelflaed, sculpted by artist Luke Perry, for Tamworth to mark 1,100 years since her death, emerging from a galvanizing bath at Joseph Ash Telford, where her steel has been protected with a zinc coating. We’ve been privileged to be a part of this great project.

Our Corby plant (Premier Galvanizing) recently galvanised these stunning horses, fabricated by sculptor Tom Hill. They looked stunning as they emerged from the bath. The horses will be installed at the Injured Jockey Centre at Newmarket.

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.