FERTILISER SHEDS, BULK STORAGE AND UNLOADING CONVEYORS
Applying Goldseal inside fertiliser sheds where wet and dry chemicals accumulate, significantly improves the condition of your steel and increases its longevity.
Mainstream coatings perform well in benign environments or where regular rainfall or maintenance washing remove contaminants. But what about in environments where bagged or loose chemicals are stored and the presence of moisture can cause corrosion? What about in storage facilities that have wide daily temperature variations, causing steel structures to expand and contract? What about in environments associated with processing machinery or conveyor systems that create vibrations? It’s in these environments where very flexible coating systems must be used in order to avoid corrosion cells developing at expansion and contraction joints.
In short: don’t use standard maintenance paints in highly-corrosive environments. They may look good, but they won’t stand the test of time.
50 years – How long the Goldseal formula has been killing, passivating and preventing steel corrosion in confined and highly-corrosive environments.
Why use Goldseal Industrial Hot Spray?
Goldseal IHS is a very flexible, oil-based compound that does not crack or peel in environments that vibrate, or expand and contract. It’s a rust killer, converter, passivator and preventer that does not require sand blasting or high-pressure water blasting to prepare its surface. For fertiliser plants, each bay is quickly cleaned and coated, returning them to service with a minimum loss of production time. With a 97% solids formulation that is applied molten, this chemical-resistant barrier coat only needs a single application to several hundred microns — with a simple recoat process that does not require stripping the previous application.
“Goldseal has proved to be very successful and has stood the test of some 10 years service in extreme salt air conditions. It is still flexible and retains full coverage.”
Townsville, Australia
Goldseal IHS was applied to Incitec Pivot Limited’s fertiliser storage shed in 2008. For the last 16 years, this highly-corrosive environment has been subjected to salt sprays, varying fertilisers, extremely high humidity, and temperatures of around 50°C. After reinspecting it in 2024, the coating remains malleable, active and intact — proving to have been a powerful protective barrier. If a maintenance paint had been used instead, the buildup of fertiliser dust on the horizontal beams and inside the crevices would have caused major corrosion.
Napier, New Zealand
In 2008 and 2010, Goldseal IHS was applied to structural steel of two fertiliser unloading sheds that were covered in chemical dust and never maintenance washed. The steel condition was reinspected in 2024 — 16 years after its first coating — by hand scraping areas of the coating. Certain sections were found to be at the very beginning stages of drying out. A reapplication of Goldseal was recommended, with a focus on sealing timber purlins to steel portals and portal connections to concrete bunker walls.
Operational benefits
Efficiency – Goldseal minimises the unknowns in difficult contracts.
Speed – Quick preparation methods and efficient coating times means your plant can return to full operation, faster.
Quality – High-speed, high-build formulas are prepared and coated by our in-house application team.
Our recoating advice
For maximum steel longevity and the prevention of steel loss, we recommend recoating approximately every 15 - 20 years. Recoating only requires a pressure wash and minor corrosion rectification that is completed by our team, meaning fast, cost effective shut down periods.
INDUSTRIAL HOT SPRAY
An anti corrosive oil-based barrier coating, designed to soak into your steel and protect against all external elements.
COLD SPRAY
A light, cold solution designed to be applied by your own maintenance teams.
10 YEAR GOLDSEAL GUARANTEE
Minimum guarantee of corrosion protection when our in-house team applies IHS to your steel.