This is the web site of the European Coil Coating (ECCA) UK Group.

On these pages you will find information about an important engineering material and the companies involved in its manufacture and use. 'Coil coated', 'pre-coated', 'pre-painted', and 'pre-finished' sheet metal are all terms used to describe this material.

How is 'pre-coat' used in design? If you don't know yet, it's time to wake up!

The alarm is going, you look at the clock face-it can't be time to get up!
You go to the bathroom, put on the fluorescent light and reach for your toiletries in the bathroom cabinet.

Breakfast time, then off in the car to work.

As you arrive at your office you admire the colour of the profiled cladding on the adjoining factory which tones beautifully with the infil panels on the exterior of your office.

Your employers are looking after your environment well in the office. Again clear fluorescent lighting set in an attractive suspended ceiling system. The partitioning in realistic woodgrain effect blending with the remaining partitioning and space dividers

You recover your work from the filing cabinet and desk and start your work.

Lunch time arrives. Microwave ovens are available for easy access to refreshments.

After work perhaps a pint or two with your workmates, chilled through a beer cooler.

Then home where your kitchen is fitted with the modern work saving appliances including a cooker, washing machine, refrigerator and dishwasher, all gleaming.

In the evening you relax with music on the CD player, watching TV and playing the video recorder.

Finally you head for bed looking forward to tomorrow-but not the morning alarm!

All the underlined products use coil coated steel and aluminium extensively. Products where it is a matter of paint first, fabricate later. All day you have been surrounded by and influenced by a host of products made out of precoat. Surprised? Want to know more? Then click opposite.