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AZZ Precoat Metals guarantees premium quality, durability, and performance for coated products with our thorough cleaning and pretreatment expertise. We eliminate dirt, debris, oils, and contaminants from the metal surface, establishing a smooth and uniform substrate that ensures a superior bond between the metal and coating. Our precise pretreatment, utilizing specialized chemicals, optimizes the surface for enhanced paint adhesion and corrosion resistance. This not only facilitates better formability but also enables the creation of complex shapes without compromising the integrity of the coating.
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Explore the continuous, automation of our coil coating process ensuring uniform, high-quality metal coated finishes before fabrication
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Explore the continuous, automation of our coil coating process ensuring uniform, high-quality metal coated finishes before fabrication
AZZ Precoat Metals has been at the forefront of cutting-edge metal coating and treatment systems for over six decades, turning product wish lists into reality and pioneering emergent coatings. With an in-depth understanding of each supplier’s capabilities, we optimize your coating choices, providing you with the best solutions available in the market. And when the perfect feature doesn’t exist, our dedicated Innovation Team is ready to craft something entirely new.
As an independent coater, we can assess many different substrates, coatings, films, and treatments to identify the best possible solution. With our global network of metal, treatment, and coating suppliers, coupled with dedicated internal resources for assessment, evaluation, testing, and recommendation, we ensure the best possible outcomes.
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Coil coating stands at the forefront of modern pre-paint technology, revolutionizing the way metal materials are finished before they enter the manufacturing or construction phase. The coil coating process is by far the fastest, most efficient, and environmentally friendly method for applying coatings to substrates. This process not only enhances the material’s aesthetic and functional qualities but also brings significant advantages such as cost efficiency, streamlined operations, and shorter production cycles. By choosing coil coating, businesses can enhance product quality, reduce operational costs, and embrace eco-friendly practices, positioning themselves at the cutting edge of industry standards.
Using pre-painted metals enables businesses to focus on their core competencies and operate with greater flexibility and efficiency compared to post-paint processes. Companies can anticipate future cost savings on both metal and coating expenses. Additionally, capital costs can be avoided by reducing the square footage dedicated to post-paint operations. Optimized inventory management and better supply chain utilization further enhance cost efficiency.
Coil coating offers significant cost savings and several advantages. Escalating in-house paint shop expenses makes pre-painted metal and aluminum a cost-effective alternative. It efficiently reduces internal operating costs by eliminating the need to manage in-house paint operations, adhere to EPA regulations, and allow for more efficient use of plant space.
Coil-coated metals are particularly advantageous during major manufacturing changes, plant downsizing, or consolidation, providing versatility, corrosion resistance, ease of handling, precision cutting, seamless welding, adhesive bonding, and adaptability to various applications.
A significant benefit of AZZ Precoat Metals is the substantial reduction in production costs and time. Whether in-house or outsourced, businesses with post-paint processes can achieve shorter cycle times and reduced inventory requirements by transitioning to pre-painted materials. This efficiency translates into quicker turnaround times, increased productivity, and enhanced responsiveness to market demands.
Pre-painted metals offer uniform and high-quality coatings, reducing variability and improving the overall coating quality. Our pre-paint processes ensure uniform coating coverage, resisting fading, corrosion, and rust. Additionally, the primer coat enhances corrosion resistance and durability. Coil-coated metals undergo a meticulous procedure, including cleaning, pretreatment, painting, and curing on a flat surface. This uniform process minimizes variations, ensuring a consistently high level of coating quality, virtually eliminating variability between the top and bottom edges.
Our coatings span a wide range of gloss levels, colors, textures, lubricity, and flexibility, all while accommodating various metal sources. We offer the latest coated technology, including innovative solutions like antimicrobial coatings that protect against mold, mildew, and other microbes in coil-coated products. AZZ Precoat Metals coil-coated materials are ready for manufacturing, ensuring a seamless transition to production.
By adopting our coil coating solutions, you actively contribute to reducing environmental impact, minimizing waste, complying with regulations, and supporting a greener and more responsible manufacturing process.
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Explore the continuous, automation of our coil coating process ensuring uniform, high-quality metal coated finishes before fabrication
Where innovation meets endless possibilities
Explore the continuous, automation of our coil coating process ensuring uniform, high-quality metal coated finishes before fabrication
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For nearly six decades, AZZ has been protecting critical infrastructure from the destruction of metallic corrosion as North America’s leading provider of galvanizing for fabricated steel. In addition to hot-dip galvanizing, AZZ offers a wide range of high-quality metal finishing and coating services. Our comprehensive metal coating capabilities create enduring infrastructure for constructing a stronger, safer, and sustainable world.
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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 services, our expertise in coatings and metals has resulted in end-use appearance and performance attributes in thousands of applications.
With our superior processing capabilities and operational flexibility, choose your metal from any source and bring it to us. When you’re ready, we’ll handle the coating and processing. AZZ Precoat Metals offers sourcing flexibility and warehousing to accommodate purchasing in bulk. Our proximity to metal sources, demand clusters, and modes of transportation translates to significant logistical cost advantages for you. When you combine our sourcing flexibility with our broad portfolio of printing and finishing techniques, every project can be executed to meet your needs.
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, weathered finishes, and color-changing effects. We work closely with our customers and suppliers to develop solutions that enhance appearance and performance.
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. Our coated metal products provide superior weather and corrosion resistance, ensuring the longevity and durability of the finished goods, translating into long-term savings for our customers.
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