Salt Air Is Only The Beginning...

Located on Chesapeake in eastern Virginia, normally the ocean air is Mike Howard’s biggest problem at Virginia Air Distributors. Because of the ever-present salt air, Virginia Air regularly uses Bronz-Glow for the units they install on the many government bases in the area. They also have coated units for hotels and motels on Virginia Beach, where the average AC unit lasts only 2-4 years.

But Virginia Air often works with customers with even more corrosive environments. For example, they were asked to provide 30T air handlers for a chicken processing plant, also on the eastern shore. Chlorine and other disinfectant and cleaning chemicals, added to the general salt air environment, made this a natural for Bronz-Glow.

They have also provided units for a nearby paper mill. Paper mills have very corrosive environments covering the pH scale.

As distributors, Virginia Air actually sells the equipment to the contractor doing the installation. According to Mike Howard, however, “In 75% of the cases, Virginia Air suggests the customer include Bronz-Glow coating. In only 25% of the units we have coated, has the contractor or owner initiated the addition of anti-corrosive coating… even though they are usually replacing badly deteriorated equipment due to the corrosiveness of the operating environment.”

“If more contractors would learn about the advantage of using Bronz-Glow, they’d have a lot fewer customer complaints and service headaches. With Bronz-Glow, units hold up well here on the eastern shore. It just makes sense to protect the equipment this way.”

About dealing with Bronz-Glow, Mike adds, “Bronz-Glow is great to work with, they have very good customer service, a great knowledge base, good followup on quotes and they always give me quick turnaround time. I’ve used Bronz-Glow since 1999, and our company used them even before I came along. I have no complaints.”

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