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Engineered surface preparation for long-term coating performance

AZZ Precoat Metals helps ensure premium quality, durability, and long-term performance through advanced coil coating cleaning and coil coating pretreating processes engineered to optimize coating adhesion and product reliability.

Cleaning removes dirt, debris, oils, and contaminants from the metal surface, creating a smooth, uniform substrate that supports a superior bond between the metal and coating system. Specialized pretreatment applications further enhance paint adhesion, corrosion resistance, and long-term field performance.

Proper surface preparation is one of the most critical steps in the coil coating process.

Controlled cleaning and pretreatment help improve:

Coating adhesion
Corrosion protection
Product durability
Surface consistency
Long-term appearance retention
Overall coating performance

These processes also support improved formability, allowing customers to create complex shapes and fabricated components without compromising coating integrity or finished product quality. Integrated within AZZ Precoat Metals’ coil coating process, cleaning and pretreating help improve coating adhesion, manufacturing consistency, and downstream fabrication performance across a wide range of coated metal applications.

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For more than six decades, AZZ Precoat Metals has been at the forefront of advanced metal coating and treatment technologies, helping customers develop products that combine durability, performance, efficiency, and visual appeal. From high-performance systems to emerging specialty finishes, AZZ coil coating solutions are engineered to support evolving product requirements across a wide range of industries and applications.

Flexible sourcing paired with deep technical expertise

Deep technical expertise and an extensive understanding of coatings, substrates, treatments, laminates, and films allow customers to identify the right solution for their specific operational, environmental, and aesthetic requirements. Whether the goal is improved corrosion resistance, enhanced weatherability, energy efficiency, durability, or product differentiation, coating systems are selected and optimized to support long-term product performance and manufacturing success.

As North America’s leading independent provider of coil coating services, AZZ Precoat Metals delivers the flexibility to evaluate and source from a broad range of suppliers and technologies rather than being limited to a single coating system or substrate provider. This independent approach allows greater flexibility in identifying the best-performing solution for each application.

Performance-driven coating technologies

Coating systems are designed to support a wide range of manufacturing and performance requirements across construction, HVAC, appliances, transportation, containers and packaging, doors and windows, and consumer products.

Coil coatings are engineered to enhance:

Corrosion resistance
Weather and UV resistance
Abrasion resistance
Long-term color retention
Product durability
Energy efficiency
Surface appearance

By combining advanced coating technologies with tightly controlled coil coating processes, customers benefit from consistent finishes, improved product reliability, and lasting field performance.

Finishes that enhance product appearance and market appeal

Beyond corrosion protection and durability, coil coating solutions can create distinctive visual and tactile characteristics that enhance product appearance and support brand differentiation. From custom colors and decorative finishes to printed patterns, embossed textures, and natural-look effects, AZZ helps customers achieve the aesthetic performance their markets demand while maintaining the durability and long-term performance of coil-coated metal systems.

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Improve performance, resilience, and efficiency

Enhance formability, field performance, and element resistance with our manufacturing-efficient PCM Foundations^™ solutions. Empower your products to perform at their best, improving fabrication and assembly, and optimizing finished product maintenance and longevity.

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PCM Mimics

Replicate nature with wood, stone, and brick patterns

Emulate natural materials, creating captivating visual and tactile effects. From stunning wood grain patterns to the rugged elegance of stone, we transform surfaces into works of art. Explore PCM Mimics™ patterns like wood grain, stone, brushed metal, tile, brick, grass, and weathered and distressed effects.

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PCM Xtremes

Defying harsh conditions, ensuring durability

When demanding conditions are the norm, our PCM Xtremes™ formulations excel against exposure to UV rays, moisture, extreme temperatures, corrosive environments, and aggressive substances/contaminants. With unmatched durability and resilience, these coatings ensure your products withstand the harshest environments while maintaining their pristine appearance.

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Strategic collaboration with vendors and research facilities

Strong partnerships with global coating suppliers, treatment providers, and research facilities allow AZZ Precoat Metals to continuously evaluate emerging technologies and innovative material solutions.

As an independent coater, AZZ Precoat Metals can assess a broad range of substrates, coatings, films, laminates, and treatments to identify the best possible solution for each application. Dedicated internal resources focused on assessment, evaluation, testing, and recommendation help ensure coating systems align with both manufacturing requirements and long-term performance objectives.

This collaborative approach helps customers gain access to innovative technologies, advanced material systems, and coating solutions tailored to evolving market demands.

Innovation built around customer needs

Not every project fits within standard coating specifications. When existing solutions do not fully meet application requirements, the AZZ Precoat Metals Innovation Team works closely with customers and suppliers to develop new approaches engineered around specific manufacturing, environmental, or aesthetic goals.

From specialty finishes and advanced protective coating systems to emerging sustainable technologies, innovation efforts focus on helping customers improve product performance, operational efficiency, and long-term value.

Combined with responsive support, integrated processing capabilities, and one of North America’s largest independent coil coating networks, AZZ delivers industrial coating solutions designed around real-world manufacturing demands and evolving customer expectations.

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Coil coating stands at the forefront of modern pre-painted steel coil technology, transforming the way metal materials are finished before entering the manufacturing or construction process. As one of the fastest, most efficient, and environmentally responsible methods for applying coatings to steel and aluminum substrates, coil coating helps improve product quality, streamline operations, and reduce overall production costs.

Coil coating offers cost savings, efficiency improvements, and reduced cycle times

AZZ Precoat Metals provides advanced coil coating solutions engineered to support demanding performance, operational, and aesthetic requirements across industries, including construction, HVAC, appliances, transportation, containers and packaging, doors and windows, and consumer products. By combining technical expertise, production flexibility, and integrated value-added processing capabilities, AZZ helps customers improve efficiency while delivering durable, high-performance finished products.

Coil coating delivers significant manufacturing advantages

Unlike traditional post-paint methods where fabricated parts are individually painted after manufacturing, coil coating applies coatings to steel or aluminum coils before fabrication in a continuous, highly controlled process.

This coil coating process provides customers with several advantages, including:

Reduced labor and handling
Faster production throughput
Improved coating consistency
Reduced rework and waste
Lower operating costs
Improved inventory management
Reduced production complexity

Using prepainted metal also allows customers to focus more directly on their core production operations rather than managing in-house paint processes, environmental controls, and additional finishing operations. Coil coating helps simplify workflows while supporting greater production flexibility and efficiency.

For companies evaluating plant consolidations or manufacturing optimization initiatives, prepainted metal can also help reduce capital expenditures associated with maintaining in-house paint operations and related environmental compliance requirements.

Reduce costs while improving product quality

Coil coating provides meaningful cost advantages compared to traditional post-paint methods. By operating within centralized, highly controlled environments, the process improves paint utilization, minimizes waste, and creates more consistent coating application across the entire metal surface.

AZZ Precoat Metals helps customers improve:

Coating consistency
Product durability
Corrosion protection
Appearance retention
Manufacturing efficiency
Lifecycle value

The controlled nature of the coil coating process also helps reduce variability commonly associated with post-paint operations. Coatings are applied evenly across flat metal surfaces before fabrication, helping ensure uniform coverage and improved overall coating quality.

This consistency enhances both product appearance and long-term field performance while helping reduce inefficiencies caused by inconsistent finishing results.

Accelerate production and improve responsiveness

One of the most significant advantages of coil coating is the ability to reduce production cycle times and improve manufacturing responsiveness. By receiving prepainted metal ready for fabrication, customers can eliminate multiple downstream finishing steps and improve overall production flow.

AZZ Precoat Metals further supports manufacturing responsiveness through:

Flexible production scheduling
Quick turns on special colors and coatings
Paint blend cell capabilities
Integrated value-added processing services
Toll processing flexibility
Broad network and capacity across the U.S.

These capabilities help customers respond more effectively to changing market conditions, evolving inventory requirements, and shifting production demands while maintaining product quality and production continuity.

Scale and flexibility to support modern manufacturing

As North America’s leading independent coil coater, AZZ Precoat Metals provides customers with the scale, production flexibility, and geographic reach needed to support evolving production demands and complex supply chains.

With 14 strategically located Precoat facilities, 17 coating lines, and 19 value-added processing lines across the United States, AZZ helps customers improve:

Supply chain continuity
Production flexibility
Geographic responsiveness
Freight efficiency
Manufacturing coordination

Combined with integrated capabilities including coil coating, slitting, embossing, laminating, printing, shape correction, and cut-to-length processing, AZZ Precoat Metals delivers a unique one-stop-shop solution across multiple end markets and substrates.

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Enhance sustainability and environmental performance

Coil coating is widely recognized as one of the most environmentally responsible methods for finishing metal products. Because the process operates within highly controlled environments, it supports improved resource utilization, reduced emissions, and reduced waste generation compared to traditional post-paint operations.

At AZZ Precoat Metals, the coil coating process operates as a closed loop system where approximately 98% of VOCs are captured and converted to fuel, helping reduce environmental impact while improving process efficiency.

Additional sustainability benefits include:
• Lower energy consumption
• Improved paint utilization
• Reduced waste generation
• Recyclable steel and aluminum substrates
• Extended product service life
• Reduced maintenance requirements

Advanced coil coating technologies also support innovative applications such as cool roofing systems, energy-efficient building products, specialty coatings, and advanced architectural finishes designed to improve both environmental and operational performance.

Innovation that supports product differentiation

AZZ Precoat Metals continues to invest in advanced coating technologies and specialty finishing capabilities designed to help customers differentiate their products in increasingly competitive markets.

Capabilities include:
• Custom colors
• Decorative finishes
• Embossed textures
• Specialty coatings
• Printing applications
• Natural-look finishes including wood grain and weathered effects

Combined with responsive customer support and technical expertise, AZZ helps customers create products that deliver both functional performance and enhanced visual appeal.

Through Coilzone^®, customers also gain near real-time access to inventory, production, and shipping information, improving visibility and supply chain coordination throughout the production process.

Why customers choose AZZ Precoat Metals

For over 60 years, AZZ Precoat Metals has helped customers improve efficiency, product quality, and long-term performance through advanced coil coating and integrated processing solutions.

With one of North America’s largest independent coil coating networks, AZZ Precoat Metals combines:

Nationwide capacity
Technical expertise
Production flexibility
Integrated processing capabilities
Sustainable practices
Responsive customer support

The result is a trusted coil coating and processing partner that helps customers reduce costs, improve efficiency, streamline production, and deliver high-quality products across a broad range of industries and applications.

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For seven decades, AZZ has helped protect critical infrastructure, fabricated steel, and industrial assets from corrosion through industry-leading metal coating solutions. As North America’s leading independent provider of hot-dip galvanizing services, AZZ delivers comprehensive Metal Coatings capabilities that improve durability, reduce maintenance requirements, and support long-term infrastructure performance.

Metal coating solutions for corrosion protection and performance

AZZ Metal Coatings offers galvanizing operations and specialized Surface Technologies to provide corrosion protection and metal finishing solutions for industrial, infrastructure, utility, transportation, and manufacturing applications. With one of the industry’s largest coating networks across the United States and Canada, AZZ helps customers improve project coordination, reduce logistical complexity, and support large-scale and multi-location projects with responsive service and flexible production capacity.

Core galvanizing capabilities include Hot-Dip Galvanizing and Spin Galvanizing, while AZZ Surface Technologies expands protection and performance through advanced coating, finishing, and surface preparation solutions tailored to specific environmental and performance requirements.

Hot-dip galvanizing extends the service life of steel

AZZ Galvanizing helps extend the service life of fabricated steel by delivering proven corrosion protection for some of North America’s most demanding environments. Hot-Dip Galvanizing and Spin Galvanizing are widely used across infrastructure, utility, transportation, industrial, and construction applications where durability, reliability, and reduced maintenance are critical.

Galvanized steel can provide decades of corrosion protection with minimal maintenance, helping reduce lifecycle costs, improve operational reliability, and extend asset performance. Galvanizing also supports sustainable construction initiatives through long service life, reduced material replacement, and the recyclability of both zinc and steel.

From structural steel, bridges, substations, utility poles, and transmission structures to transportation components and engineered assemblies, AZZ Galvanizing supports projects requiring dependable corrosion protection, large-scale capacity, and quick-turn project execution.

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Surface technologies and value-added coating services

Beyond galvanizing, AZZ Surface Technologies provides specialized coating and finishing solutions designed to enhance corrosion protection, environmental resistance, durability, and appearance across a wide range of applications.

Capabilities include duplex coating systems, powder coating, plating, e-coating, wet coating, below-grade protection, surface preparation, and specialized Mil-Spec applications. Together, these integrated value-added services help customers simplify coating coordination, improve production efficiency, and streamline finishing requirements through a single experienced provider.

AZZ also supports complex fabrication requirements and accelerated project schedules through operational flexibility, integrated processes, and one of the industry’s broadest service footprints. Customers benefit from responsive support, streamlined logistics, and coating expertise tailored to accelerated schedules and complex project requirements.

Technology-driven operations and customer visibility

AZZ continues investing in technology, production systems, and process improvements that enhance efficiency, communication, visibility, and customer experience across its Metal Coatings network. Integrated digital workflows and operational systems help support faster decision-making, improved scheduling, streamlined coordination, and greater operational consistency across facilities.

A key part of this strategy is AZZ’s proprietary Digital Galvanizing System (DGS), which provides near real-time order visibility, production tracking, status updates, and customer notifications throughout the galvanizing process. DGS helps improve efficiency while enhancing communication and responsiveness between AZZ teams and customers.

Metal coating capabilities for the industries building North America

AZZ Metal Coatings supports construction, electrical, industrial, and transportation markets critical to modern infrastructure and manufacturing throughout North America. Applications include bridges, substations, utility transmission and distribution infrastructure, light poles, datacenters, airports, stadiums, industrial facilities, transportation infrastructure, renewable energy and energy storage projects, fabricated steel components, water infrastructure, and engineered products requiring durable corrosion protection and dependable coating performance.

With industry-leading galvanizing expertise, specialized Surface Technologies, technology-driven operations, and one of North America’s largest metal coating networks, AZZ delivers integrated coating solutions engineered to improve durability, production efficiency, and infrastructure reliability across essential applications.

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North America's leading independent provider of coil coating services

For over six decades, AZZ Precoat Metals has been a leading provider of coil-coated metal solutions, offering cost-effective options with enhanced corrosion resistance, customization, improved weather resistance, and aesthetic appeal. As North America’s leading independent provider of coil coating, our expertise in coatings and metals has resulted in end-use appearance and performance attributes across thousands of products and applications.

Coil coating solutions engineered for durability and manufacturing efficiency

Through advanced coil coating technologies, integrated processing capabilities, and strategically located facilities, AZZ Precoat Metals helps customers improve manufacturing efficiency, product durability, and supply chain responsiveness. Centralized coil coating operations support consistent quality, efficient material utilization, and long-term product performance across a wide range of precoat metal applications.

A one-stop-shop partner for coordinated coating and processing services

By consolidating multiple services within one coordinated coil coating network, AZZ helps customers reduce handling and transportation, streamline production workflows, improve production efficiency, and simplify supply chain coordination while maintaining consistent product quality and greater flexibility.

AZZ’s operational scale includes 14 strategically located Precoat facilities, 17 coating lines, and 19 value-added processing lines across the United States, helping customers strengthen supply chain continuity while benefiting from scalable production capacity and logistical advantages.

Highly efficient supply chain logistics and production flexibility

With advanced processing capabilities and flexible production support, AZZ Precoat Metals gives customers the freedom to source metal from virtually any supplier while relying on AZZ for coordinated coating and processing services. Sourcing flexibility, warehousing capabilities, and strategic proximity to metal sources, demand centers, and major transportation routes help customers reduce logistical costs and improve supply chain efficiency.

Our toll processing model provides additional sourcing flexibility and late-point SKU identification, helping customers better align inventory and production with real-time market demand. This approach improves inventory management, supports faster response to changing business conditions, and helps reduce supply chain risk.

AZZ also supports accelerated production schedules through responsive manufacturing support and paint blend cell capabilities designed for quick turns on special colors, custom coatings, and evolving production requirements. Combined with a broad portfolio of coating, printing, embossing, and finishing technologies, AZZ Precoat Metals helps customers execute projects tailored to specific aesthetic and performance objectives.

Innovative coating technologies and specialty finishes

Our commitment to innovation allows us to bring a unique and diverse range of coating, printing, and embossing applications to your products and projects, including stone, wood grain, lush grass, and weathered finishes. We work closely with our customers and suppliers to develop solutions that enhance appearance and performance.

AZZ Precoat Metals continues to invest in advanced coating technologies, operational systems, and capabilities designed to help customers improve product performance and manufacturing efficiency. Through Coilzone^®, customers gain near real-time access to inventory, production, and shipping information, improving visibility and coordination throughout the supply chain.

From decorative finishes and specialty coatings to advanced performance systems engineered for demanding environments, AZZ helps customers create products that stand out in both appearance and durability.

Shaping a stronger, more sustainable future

At AZZ Precoat Metals, we take pride in our coil coating process, recognized for its efficient material usage and minimal waste generation, setting us apart from traditional post-painting methods. Because it operates as a closed loop system, 98% of VOCs are captured and converted to fuel, making it an environmentally friendly process.

Coil coating is widely recognized as one of the most efficient and environmentally responsible methods for finishing metal products, delivering significant cost, quality, and environmental advantages compared to post-paint processes. Centralized, highly controlled environments help reduce energy consumption, improve paint utilization, minimize waste, and support the use of recyclable steel and aluminum substrates.

Our coated metal products provide superior weather and corrosion resistance, ensuring the longevity and durability of finished goods while helping customers reduce maintenance, extend product lifecycles, and improve long-term value. AZZ remains committed to advancing sustainability throughout the coil coating industry while helping customers meet growing environmental expectations without sacrificing product performance, operational efficiency, or quality.

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