Factories & Buildings

Structures enclosing storage spaces or manufacturing processes.
This Category includes most large storage, processing or manufacturing facilities.

Most large buildings are not maintenance washed internally in a programmed regime. Therefore with time there is a build up of dust, dirt and contaminants.

These are either

  1. A product of the process within the structure.
  2. An accumulation of material and deposits blown in from the local environment/nearby processes.
  3. A combination of 1 & 2 that create an issue the structural coating was not designed to resist.

A Maintenance Challenge

  1. How do you shut down the service a large building provides, long enough, to clean, prepare and recoat a complicated internal support structure?
  2. If the structure houses a process, how do you protect the machinery from detritus produced from stripping, grinding or sandblasting?
  3. If there is not the time or budget to address 1 & 2 what is the long term cost of partial or spot corrosion control?

The Goldseal coating can be applied without extensive preparation and where the debris from preparation can be controlled. Often maintenance is long overdue and a complete strip back to the steel would be required, in order to apply a paint type coating system.

In the case of corroded Z or C purlins, Goldseal is an excellent rescue coating avoiding roof removal. Depending on the situation, Goldseal Industrial Spray Grade is applied in a single application after waterblasting or manual cleaning, chipping or scraping.

Sandblasting is not a prerequisite.
This allows sections of a warehouse, fertiliser store, meat works or galvanising plant to be coated, while the production process is maintained. Critical areas can be coated with the shut down of a single shift.

Example: The BHP Billeton Fertiliser store in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, now owned by Incitec Pivot.
Each 200 ton bay was prepared and coated in 3-4 days using a 140 foot boom lift.

Coating from new
Field evidence supports applying Goldseal to new structures, portals or roof purlins in what is typically be an aggressive environment. Costing this in to the capital expenditure gives an economical maintenance budget, return on investment.

Example 1: AFFCO Meat works Horotiu New Zealand 1974 ( New Zealand's largest meat processor ) Goldseal was applied to mild steel portals in 1974. An updated 2004 reference confirms effective protection from surface corrosion since that time, in Ph environments from 1-11, without major maintenance.

Example 2: The Galvanising Industry in Australia and New Zealand
Goldseal has been applied in New Zealand since 1983 in this Industry and Australia since the early 1990's. The acid fumes generated by the galvanising process will cause most single pack, 2 pack and galvanised coatings to fail in 2 -5 years. Having used Goldseal for many years leading Australian plants are now applying Goldseal to new facilities as a capital expense due to excellent coating life.

Recommendation
Apply Goldseal according to the Industrial Spray Grade Specification.

Applications
Specifications
Clients
Abattoirs
Affco NZ Ltd.
Fletcher International Exports Pty Ltd.
Alliance Group Ltd.
Tatiara Meat Co. Pty Ltd.
PPCS Ltd. (NZ)
T & R Pastoral Pty Ltd.

Cool Stores
A.B. Oxford Cold Storage Co. Pty Ltd.
Polarcold Stores Ltd.
Bay Pac Coolstores Ltd.
P&O Logistics
Cold Storage Nelson Ltd.
S.A. Cold Storage Group.
Fletcher International Exports Pty Ltd.
Sanfords
Fonterra New Plymouth
South Port NZ Ltd.
North Port Coolstores (1989) Ltd.
Whakatu Coldstores Ltd.
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Clients using Goldseal for structural assets
Abattoirs
Affco NZ Ltd. (NZ)
Fletcher International Exports Pty Ltd. (NSW)
Alliance Group Ltd. (NZ)
Tatiara Meat Co. Pty Ltd. (SA)
PPCS Ltd. (NZ)
T & R Pastoral Pty Ltd. (SA)

Cool Stores
A.B. Oxford Cold Storage Co. Pty Ltd. (NSW)
Polarcold Stores Ltd. (NZ)
Bay Pac Coolstores Ltd. (NZ)
P&O Logistics, Perth
Cold Storage Nelson Ltd. (NZ)
S.A. Cold Storage Group. (SA)
Fletcher International Exports Pty Ltd. (NSW)
Sanfords (NZ)
Fonterra New Plymouth (NZ)
South Port NZ Ltd. (NZ)
North Port Coolstores (1989) Ltd. (NZ)
Whakatu Coldstores Ltd. (NZ)

Fertiliser Plants
Ballance Agi-Nutrients (NZ)
Southern Cross Fertilisers (Townsville)

Galvanising Plants
Adelaide Galvanising Industries
Industrial Galvanisers (AUS)
Franklin Engineering (NZ)
Korvest Galvanisers
Hunter Galvanizing
Perry Metals Group Limited (NZ)

Papermills
Australian Paper (VIC)
Silcar Maintenance Services (NSW)
Carter Holt Harvey
Tanners Timber World
Fletcher Timber
Tuakau Timber Treatment
N.Z. Timber Treatment
Visy Paper Pty. Ltd. (NSW)

Spalling Concrete
Australian Paper Shoalhaven
PPCS Ltd. (NZ)
Clutha District Council (NZ)
South Port NZ Ltd. (NZ)