Industrial coatings are used on a wide range of industrial products including construction vehicles, machines, agro eguipment, home electronics and various types of building material.

Decorative coatings include coatings to protect structures such as residential houses and buildings from deterioration and are classified as interior or exterior and for new surfaces or repairs.

This area encompasses marine coatings used on structures near water bodies like oceans and lakes to provide long term protection from corrosion for steel structures and protective coatings for land structures.