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Article: Hot-dip galvanizers honor year's top jobs.(Of Material Interest)
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- Advanced Materials & Processes
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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A rental trailer and giant hand tools walked away with first prizes in the Original Equipment Manufacturing and Artistic categories, respectively, of this year's Excellence in Hot-Dip Galvanizing awards program. The annual contest is sponsored by the American Galvanizers Assn. (AGA), Centennial, Colo.
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Trailer: According to AGA, U-Haul International Inc., Phoenix, Ariz., began specifying hot-dip galvanizing (HDG) for some trailer parts in 1995. Subsequently, the U-Haul Technical Center, Tempe, Ariz., worked with Arizona Galvanizing Inc., Goodyear, to develop "a unique protocol" for dipping the "entire, assembled trailer into the ...