Highly-Corrosive Caribbean Environment Requires High-Performance Protection

Dick Whitehead knew Bob Haydu when Bob started Bronz-Glow in New Jersey, in the early 80s. Dick was a vice president with an international trading company, and worked with a lot of Carrier distributors internationally. In 1985, Dick took this experience and started Dexcom, becoming Carrier's distributor for the Netherlands Antilles marketplace. He also began using his knowledge of Bronz-Glow products to help his customers in their struggle with inescapable salt air corrosion. As Dick puts it, "On an island, there's nowhere you can go to get away from the salt air."

As Dick puts it, the ever-present problem of corrosion creates a "derived demand." He says, "There are a variety of options but, even based on trial and error, people seem to end up with Bronz-Glow almost by default. They ultimately learn from costly failures and years of bad experiences. Nowadays, more and more of the companies I work with specify Bronz-Glow."

Throughout the last 25 years or so, Dick has seen almost every type of coating tried, from plain paint to factory coatings, baked phenolics and "coatings of the month." Only Bronz-Glow has proven itself over time to withstand the worst corrosive environments, and keep his customers happy.

"Once they experience Bronz-Glow, they tend to stay with Bronz-Glow. Our job is largely a matter of informing and educating the engineers, architects and end users, so their spec is not broken or an inferior coating applied instead of Bronz-Glow."

For Dexcom, Bronz-Glow is the right product, at the right price, regardless of how hostile the environment may be.

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