Can you imagine A WORLD WITHOUT COATINGS?

Can you imagine a world without coatings?

Here's your everyday kitchen. Let's start by getting rid of the wallpaper and paint. There will be no protection for your wooden cabinets and work surfaces, and no coating on your washing machine and other appliances.

Say goodbye to the brands and colors on food packaging. The food would look like this from inside without coatings keep the content edible. Nonstickpans won't be nonstick anymore. Without printing, there will be no more daily newspapers and no books.

Without paint, your car would look just like anyother car and it's also prone to faster rusting. The world's shippingfleet would use 40% more fuel without a coating or paint to prevent the buildupof barnacles and algae. That's equivalent to 70 million less tonnes of greenhousegasses per year or planting a forest bigger than UK or Irland. Coatings help keep the aeroplanes in the sky by safe guarding and protecting vital componentsand lighter weright coatings mean the plane saves energy consumption.

Powder coatings used on solar pannels help make your home more sustainable and talking of sustainability , 80% of house paints sold in UK are now waterborne significantly reducing emissions of solvents into the atmosphere. And ourcoatings extend the lifetime of machinery, buildings and bridges, protecting variable natural resources, such as wood, concrete and steel from the elements.So how important is the coating industry to ECONOMY?

The paints andcoatings, printing inks and wall covering industries supply the construction, home improvements, printing, automotive, aerospace and other advanced manufacturing sectors worth over a hundred and fifty billion pounds to UK PLC which employ more than 1 million people.

3 out of every 4 cans of paint sold in UK are made in this country and they export 30% of allpaints made there, making UK a net exporter of paints.

Coatings are most looked at, yet the most overlooked product. BCF is the sole coating association for UK paints and coatings, printing inks and wall covering industries.