The Industry

Coatings and inks are all around you. From a modest industry of a few hundred highly innovative companies flow the materials that protect and create much of our environment and are the means of delivery of most of our information and education.

Half of the country’s workforce would have to go home if these vital products did not turn up for them to use in their jobs, yet coatings and inks are usually taken for granted. For more information on coatings visit the  Interesting Facts page.

The British Coatings Federation represents 130 companies, which produce about 90 percent of the UK output of coatings, printing inks and wallcoverings. The Federation has a training division, which  develops training initiatives, programmes and qualifications for the surface coatings industry. BCF and the industry is a partner within Proskills, the Sector Skills Council in development for the process and manufacturing Sector.