UNICOIL and Beckers forge technical partnership

Universal Metal Coating Company Ltd. (UNICOIL) and Beckers Group, has forged a strategic and technical partnership, which includes the installation of a state-of-the-art coating blending system called BeckryMix at UNICOIL vicinity.
Among the salient features of BeckryMix is the ability to produce small volumes of paint per batch, enabling UNICOIL to offer lower minimum order quantity per color, adding flexibility, cost-effectiveness and unique services to its valued customers.
It has also the speed to produce high quality industrial paints in less than a day, allowing UNICOIL to shorten the delivery lead times of its products to less than a week.
Through this partnership, UNICOIL launched two pre-painted” products namely; Energy Saver supporting the urgent need necessitated by the increase in the energy costs of the region and Anti-bacterial, a product catering the health and sanitary needs of the region.
One of the objectives of this partnership is to bring innovative European technology of coil coatings to Middle East markets and enhanced aftersales solutions for the benefit of UNICOIL's valued customers of pre-painted galvanized steel products.
UNIICOIL is claimed to be the largest and oldest value-added steel manufacturer of pre-painted galvanized steel in the Kingdom and the rest of the GCC and the MENA region and the “only Saudi and Arab Company to receive numerous quality marks outside its home country.”
Beckers, a Swedish group headquartered in Berlin Germany was founded in 1865 in Stockholm. The company is structured into three business segments - coil coatings, industrial coatings and consumer design finishes; serving customers in over 50 countries from 21 manufacturing sites across the globe of which nine sites are in Asia.
Beckers has established two long-term development centers — one at Liverpool in the UK and the other in Malaysia, dedicated for R&D of eco-friendly and pioneering range of innovative technologies.