Galvanizers in Europe are largely resistant to volatile and rising zinc prices, senior executives in the industry said at the Metal Bulletin Zinc and its Markets Seminar in London.
Continuous and batch galvanizing processes are able to pass the higher costs of zinc onto their customers for a range of reasons, the executives said on March 23.
For continuous galvanizing, where steel sheets are processed in a high-speed mechanical process, the zinc price is a small...