AZZ Inc. Completes Acquisition of Precoat Metals

AZZ Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas), a global provider of galvanizing and metal coating solutions, welding solutions, specialty electrical equipment and highly engineered services for maintaining and building critical infrastructure, announces that it has completed its acquisition of the Precoat Metals (St. Louis, Missouri) business division of Sequa Corporation (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida).

Precoat is a leading independent provider of metal coil coating solutions in North America. Precoat engages in the advanced application of protective and decorative coatings and services for steel and aluminum coil primarily serving the construction; appliance; heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC); container; transportation and other end markets. Precoat has approximately 1,100 employees and operates a network of 13 manufacturing facilities with 15 coating lines and 17 processing lines.

Tom Ferguson, chief executive officer of AZZ, comments, “Today we welcome the 1,100 employees of Precoat to the AZZ family and begin the work of swiftly integrating Precoat into AZZ while leveraging the opportunities this acquisition creates. This acquisition significantly broadens our metal coatings offering, creating unrivaled scale and breadth of solutions in both the prepainted and post-fabrication coatings markets. We believe the coil coating market will provide sustainable future growth for AZZ, and we are excited to add a talented leadership team that shares similar values as well as employee and customer focus as we do at AZZ.”