Membership Categories

COATER MEMBER: A business entity engaged in applying organic or inorganic coatings, including laminates, to metals in coil form using a continuous coil coating line, not including a metal plater. All coater members joining on or after January 1, 1998 are required to participate in the association's statistical program.

NON-COATER MEMBER: A business entity that is engaged in one or more of the following is eligible to be a non-coater member:

• Coating Supplier - Members who manufacture or sell coatings including chemical, liquid, powder, or film, applied by a continuous coil coater.
  
  
• Metal Producer - Members who manufacture metal that is coated by a continuous coil coater. Members may, as part of their metal surface processing, apply additional coatings that are similar to that of a coater, but would not have a separate and distinct continuous coil coating line dedicated to that application.
  
  
• Service Center - Members, who as part of a package for resale to OEM's, combine their own contracted purchase of continuous coil coated metal with additional value added processing and/or warehousing which is available at their own location(s).
  
  
• Processor/Warehouse - Members who do not purchase or sell continuous coil coated metal, but do provide the service of processing and/or warehousing continuously coil-coated metal for others.
  
  
• Broker - Members who sell continuous coil coated metal with or without further processing, but do not provide a value-added process in their facility.
  
  
• Equipment Suppliers - Members who manufacture or sell equipment that is used by either a coater and/or non-coater member in activities primarily related to the continuous coil coater metal industry.
  
  
• Service Suppliers - Members who provide services to the continuous coil coating industry.
  
  
• Material Suppliers - Members who manufacture or sell materials that are used by either a coater and/or non-coater member in activities primarily related to the continuous coil coating industry.

Professional Member: An individual professional person who is engaged in the business of offering educational, consulting, and other professional services to the coil coating industry. Such a member is not eligible to hold an elective position or office and shall not be entitled to vote for any purpose or to receive industry statistics.

Ineligibility of End-Users: A business entity that is an end-user of coated coil (or is an affiliate of an end-user of coated coil) shall not be eligible for membership, unless such end use is only an incidental part of the business of the organization.