Coatings in the home - the most visible industry

Coatings can be found all around the home:                   

Kitchen: kitchen units, food can liners, bottle cap coatings, appliance coatings – cooker, refrigerator, dishwasher, microwave, non-stick pots and pans, sink enamel, floor-tile topcoats.a

Living room: walls and ceilings and woodwork, wooden furniture (paints, stains, topcoats), electromagnetic shielding coats for TV and hi-fi.

Bedrooms: fire-retardant\ textile coatings, jewellery laquers, toys.

Utility room: washing machine and dryer

Outside: masonry and woodwork protective/decorative coatings, fence coatings, garden furniture and sheds coatings, lawnmowers.

Garage: car (body and internal coatings, under-body anti corrosion coatings, engine block, silencer), anti-slip floor coatings.