Picking The Right Coil Coater For The Job Coil Coaters’ Capabilities Vary Based On Your Needs Coater capabilities vary, but most coaters are able to meet the strictest quality guidelines. By offering more stages of cleaning, treating and other processes, coaters can produce prepainted metal that is used in high quality applications. If you’re considering converting to prepaint, it’s important to select the coil coater that best meets the needs of your specific application and quality requirements. In addition to beginning with a quality metal product that meets your industry standards, NCCA has many more suggestions for developing a successful prepaint product. To view those suggestions, click here.       Handling Coil Coated Metal Is Easier Than You Think Tips For Protecting Coated Coils Inside And Outside Of The Plant Handling coil coated metal is not rocket science. In fact, it’s easier than you may think. Protecting the coils through common sense processes during packaging, transporting, in-plant handling and storage is all that’s required. You may already be using some of these processes to protect your uncoated materials. To learn more about handling prepainted metal, click here.       Start Counting Your Money Using Prepainted Metal Saves Manufacturers Big Bucks Using prepainted metal for your applications can save money and increase your margins significantly. There are three major areas where coil coating customers realize process cost reductions. The first is material economy: outsourcing your painting saves on waste. Energy economy is the second area: you don’t have to use energy for a process that you’re outsourcing. Lastly, customers experience manpower economy; you won’t need to staff a paintshop. These three areas can have a big impact on your bottom line and there are even more ways to save costs. Click here to read the full article.     Making Metal History Because metal was scarce during World War II, the Oscars given out then were made of wood. To learn more about how prepainted coils can save costs, time, and hassles for your organization, surf, email, or call: National Coil Coating Association 1300 Sumner Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44115–2851 www.coilcoatinginstitute.org ncca@coilcoating.org P: (216) 241–7333
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