The galvanizing of hot strip enables the production of zinc-coated steel strips with long-life corrosion protection and an attractive look at low production and investment costs. There is a growing market and increased demand for variuos applications for galvanized hot strip, for example in the construction, furniture, or automotive industries.

Economically speaking, the use of galvanized hot strip is particularly attractive for applications where a galvanized cold strip would normally be used. Because a number of cost-intensive process steps are skipped from the production of galvanized hot strip compared to the production of galvanized cold strip, enormous cost advantages arise here, which ultimately increase the margins of the steel producers.