ZINGA contains so much Zinc in its dry film, it does not form a closed film. In fact, ZINGA is porous. This is because the pigment volume concentration (for ZINGA = the concentration of Zinc), surpasses the critical pigment volume concentration of a coating.
This means that not every zinc particle is surrounded with binder completely, therefore allowing good contact between the zinc particles and consequently good electrical conductivity (which ensures cathodic protection).

Therefore, ZINGA is not a paint and does not behave like a paint. When a paint is damaged, it will cause a layer of paint to ‘chip off’ or ‘peel off’.

Also when damaged with a hammer, a paint will suffer from the impact which causes severe stress on the binder of the paint causing the paint to show cracks. These cracks are the weak part of the paint through which moisture and water can seep leaving the steel exposed to the environment and rusting occurs.

ZINGA film galvanising system does not act like that, it acts more like the steel below: when impacted with a hammer, the Zinc is merely pushed away, bending along with the steel.

Testing has proved that ZINGA galvanising performs better than metallisation - less prone to brittle etc/