Zinc dust in Europe—its manufacture, properties, and uses

This paper has shown the pattern of production and usage of zinc dust in Western Europe, and indicates that although the major source of this product is still via the old Horizontal Retort Distillation plant, suitably modified, that more sophisticated methods of production are in use for producing the higher grades of dust required by the surface coating industry. Undoubtedly, should the zinc production in Europe get out of phase with the demand for zinc dust, or the production of zinc via the Imperial Smelting Blast Furnace or by electrolytic processes increase, then these methods will be adopted to an increasing degree.