Duncan Galvanizing - Plant Tour

Duncan Galvanizing - Plant Tour

Sponsored by the Construction Institute Boston Chapter
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Duncan Galvanizing, 69 Norman Street, Everett, MA 02149
3:00 PM Presentation, 4:00 PM Plant Tour

Speaker:
Mike Williams
President, Duncan Galvanizing

Since 1890, Duncan Galvanizing has enjoyed a reputation as one of the finest hot-dip galvanizing companies in the United States. Since its inception, the company has grown to become the recognized leader in full-service architectural metal coatings, providing the most effective form of corrosion protection combined with aesthetic enhancement for metals anywhere from structural steel to small pieces like steel pipe, steel rails, and fence posts. 

Duncan Galvanizing has always been on the cutting edge of metal corrosion protection. From galvanizing milk containers in the late 1890's to creating a patented process in the 1960's for painting galvanized steel (Colorgalv®), and in the 2000’s establishing a process for powder coating galvanized metals (Colorgalv Thermoset®), DG provide state-of-the-art hot dip galvanizing and high-tech architectural finishes for any metal substrate, including galvanized steel and "black steel" (uncoated steel). 

To highlight Duncan Galvanizing’s many abilities; today, with the increase in the size and capacities of galvanizing installations, facilities now exist for galvanizing components covering a significant range of sizes and shapes. Duncan’s galvanizing kettle measures 42 feet long by 7 feet deep by 5 feet 2 inches wide. Almost any component can be galvanized by designing and fabricating in modules suitable for available galvanizing facilities. Large structures are galvanized by designing in modules or sub-units. These are then assembled by shop welding or site bolting after galvanizing. Modular design techniques often produce economies in manufacture and assembly because they simplify handling and transport. When an item is too large for total immersion in the molten zinc of the largest galvanizing kettle available, but more than half of the item will fit into the kettle, one end may be immersed and withdrawn, and then the other end may be galvanized. This is referred to as the double dip process.

Presenters will include members of the Duncan Galvanizing team. After the tour, please join us for a social hour next door at Night Shift Brewing.

Registration Deadline: Monday, March 3, 2025
$45 BSCES Members, $40 Public Sector Members, $15 Student & Senior (65+) Members
$55 Nonmembers, $45 Public Sector Nonmembers
All attendees must wear work boots, a hard hat, high visibility vest, gloves, safety glasses, and outdoor attire. Please keep weather in mind.

Parking Information: There is street parking on Santilli and Norman Street, a short walk from the facility.

Information/Registration: 
Register to attend this meeting and pay by credit card by clicking Registration above. To register online for an event at the BSCES member rate you must login using your BSCES assigned username and password. If you do not know your BSCES member login information call 617/227-5551. You can also register for this event by mail or email. To do so, download and complete a BSCES Event Registration Form and follow the submission instructions. Cancellations received after Monday, March 3, 2025 and no-shows will be billed.