Logistics and warehouse roofs play a crucial role in ensuring the safe storage of your assets, operation efficiency, as well as the safety of your employees.
Thus, maintaining your facility’s roof is essential in ensuring smooth operations and avoiding safety hazards.
Exceptionally durable and reliable, coated steel is one of the recommended roofing materials for logistics and warehouses as it delivers a longer lifespan compared to other roof materials.
Continue reading to learn more about COLORBOND® steel and ZINCALUME® steel, two premium coated steel roofing solutions from BlueScope, the world’s leading steel solutions provider.
Why Choose COLORBOND® Steel for Logistics and Warehouse Roofs?
1. High Corrosion Resistance
Thanks to continuous research and development, COLORBOND® steel is able to endure Malaysia’s harsh and corrosive environment.
Equipped with BlueScope’s proprietary coating technology, it provides excellent protection against corrosion due to climatic conditions, coastal or marine environments, and other external factors.
2. Long-Term Resilience
Strong, durable, and remarkably resilient, COLORBOND® steel delivers enduring styles designed to complement your building beautifully.
As one of the most advanced building materials today, COLORBOND® steel offers excellent durability and longevity with minimal maintenance for your logistics and warehouse facilities.
3. Vibrant and Long-Lasting Colours
Employing BlueScope’s exclusive proprietary paint system technology, COLORBOND® steel delivers long-term colour stability without compromising durability.
Even better, COLORBOND® steel comes with a wide range of captivating colours and finishes to meet your specific architectural and aesthetic demands.
4. Clean Technology
Equipped with BlueScope’s self-cleaning technology that prevents dirt from bonding to the surface of your roof, COLORBOND® steel maintains your roof’s attractiveness with minimal maintenance.
This is especially important in places with tropical environments like Malaysia, where heat and humidity are present throughout the year.
5. Thermatech® Technology
Furthermore, the Thermatech® solar reflectance technology has been proven to deliver better thermal performance compared to conventional coated steel.
Using COLORBOND® steel significantly lowers the heat transmitted through the roof, allowing for better thermal comfort.
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Why Choose ZINCALUME® Steel for Logistics and Warehouse Roofs?
1. Exceptional Forming Capabilities
ZINCALUME® steel’s coating is composed of 55% aluminium, 43.5% zinc, and 1.5% silicon. As such, this coated steel has high strength grades and excellent forming capabilities.
2. Corrosion-Resistant
This premium aluminium/zinc alloy coated steel utilises BlueScope’s proprietary metallic coating technology to deliver unparalleled material strength, as well as long-lasting and consistent performance.
Additionally, ZINCALUME® steel offers outstanding corrosion resistance even after years of exposure to the harshest climatic conditions. Its durability has been proven to withstand the test of time.
3. Longer Lifespan
Without a doubt, ZINCALUME® steel is the gold standard for a long lifespan, as it offers up to four times the life of ordinary galvanised steel. This is achieved by combining aluminium and zinc in an alloy coating, which tremendously enhances its performance.
4. Unsurpassed Weathering Resistance
BlueScope’s proprietary metallic coating technology also provides superior weathering performance, allowing your roof to look brand new even after years of use. Not to forget, BlueScope conducts extensive research and development programmes to improve the performance of ZINCALUME® steel.
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Why You Should Choose the Right Profile for Your Logistics and Warehouse Roofs
1. The Need for Long-Length and Leak-Proof Roof
In particular, logistic and warehouse roofs require roofs that are longer in length.
This is to reduce lapping and minimise the chances of leaking, subsequently safeguarding the integrity of the goods and products stored within your facility.
Here, it’s best to choose a long-length roofing profile that allows optimal leak-proof performance.
2. Ensure Good Water Run-Off Performance
It is essential to ensure that your roof has effective water run-off performance.
This is because a roof with poor drainage capabilities can result in water ponding, which deteriorates your roof’s performance and significantly reduces its lifespan.
3. Customisable to Meet Specific Thermal and Acoustic Performance
Last but not least, should your building require thermal or acoustic requirements, metal roofing and cladding are customisable to cater for those needs.
After all, they are essential to maintain optimal storage conditions for products and goods, promote the well-being of your employees and improve overall indoor comfort.
You can simply explore the range of roof profiles available in our Swissma SANKO Series and find one that best answers your needs!
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At Swissma, we are always ready to provide bespoke metal roofing solutions tailored to your building’s purpose, structure, and design.
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