Metal spraying or Metallisation can be used to combat corrosion and wear degradation, as a thermal barrier, to restore the original dimension of steel products, for electrical conduction and as a protective undercoat for painting and powder coating metal surfaces. Metal spraying is an ideal steel application in industrial, rural and agricultural and marine or coastal environments.
Metal spraying and galvanizing involves a process of heating a suitable metal material to its molten or semi-molten state, then spraying it against the steel substrate to produce a suitably adherent coating. As the process applies little heat to the sprayed product – between 100 and 260 degrees celsius – metal spraying can be applied to a wide variety of metals, including finished machined parts.