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Chimney Rock State Park’s Outcroppings Trail offers hikers a series of staircases and lookout points threaded through a near-vertical boulder field. The strenuous .4 mile trail takes hikers [...]

Galvan Industries, Inc. recently celebrated the historic milestone of 60 years in business. Founded in 1958, Galvan was the first hot dip galvanizing operation in the Carolinas. Current and [...]

Solar power projects are a fast-growing part of America’s renewable electricity generation infrastructure. Once installed, solar projects are continually working. Taking them partially or totally [...]

Galvan Industries provides hot dip galvanizing rust prevention for a major supplier of steel highway guardrail posts. Why? Because each 6-foot long post is driven into earth in various soil types [...]

One of Galvan’s OEM customers provides counterweights for crossing and exit gate arms to ensure proper balance in all arm positions, and to minimize loads on gate operating mechanisms. Each [...]

Duke Energy is building a new 560-megawatt combined-cycle natural gas power plant at the company’s existing Asheville-area site in Skyland, NC. Construction is underway now and the new [...]

Galvan has been selected to provide hot dip galvanizing rust prevention to steel head gates and spillway gates that were custom designed to replace the gates in an existing hydroelectric dam. The [...]

Clearwater Paper Corp. is spending $330 million to add another building to its tissue production facility in Shelby, a move that will add 180 jobs to the 264 that are already there.  Construction [...]

A major expansion of the Imperial Sugar refinery currently underway in Port Wentworth, GA, requires large, specialized tanks and the structural steel to support them, along with other materials [...]

Honolulu’s 20-mile-long $8.1 billion light rail line is the biggest public works project in the history of the state. It’s being built to last with rust-proofing by Galvan Industries. [...]