Steel Buyers Basics: Painted Steel Price Calculator

A few months ago I wrote a series of articles on coil coated painted steel.  In the last week, the main suppliers of paint for this industry in the US have all announced price increases.  I thought it might be a good time for a few follow up articles.

Buyers of coil coated painted steel do not actually purchase any paint, they purchase the service of painting from a coil coater – the coil coater buys the paint as part of the service they supply.  Typically an end buyer never sees the actual price of the paint and only sees the resulting impact on the cost of the painting service.  This article explains the amount of paint that is typically used in this process so that buyers can better understand what ability they have to negotiate paint increases.