One of our major competitive advantages is that our warehouse is located in a cave in Kansas City, Missouri. This allows us to store and handle all of our products in a controlled environment. As a result of the cool and dry conditions in the caves, our sheet metal is not affected by environmental conditions.
Trust Galvmet to Provide Top Quality Sheet Metal
We are proud of the fact that Galvmet has an incredible track record of almost no claims due to weather related product damage. We pulled the last 2,000 invoices of product that we have shipped and only 4 of the invoices had claims of damage related to white rust. And for each of those orders, it was only a small amount of the order that had any damage. We did the math on the claims of damaged material compared to the total cost of the material and it is .0000256 percent… a tiny fraction of one percent of our product having weather related damage.
Many sheet metal suppliers struggle with white rust. When white rust affects their inventory, they have to write that inventory off as damaged and usually end up passing the cost on to their customers. Worse, they might miss the fact that their sheet metal has white rust and ship it to your job site. If this happens, it will delay your project for as long as it takes to order and receive a new shipment of sheet metal.
White Rust – How it Happens
Wet storage stain, more commonly known as white rust or white corrosion, is a type of zinc corrosion. It is called wet storage stain because it occurs when a fresh zinc surface is stored in a wet environment with limited oxygen and carbon dioxide sources; the restriction in air is usually due to the items being stacked on one another or otherwise stored in close quarters.
