Why do custom colors have minimums and cost more?
The length of the uncoiled strip to pass through the coil-coating process is roughly 4500 sq. ft. Short runs of a custom color require substantially greater production down time for the coil coater, involving the special handling of one coil coupled with the setup and cleaning process to switch to another color which could possibly be a different gauge and coil width. Also, the cost of custom formulated colors, in small quantities, is greater than the standard colors which are coated in much larger quantities. It is also necessary for us to have to coat more than the ordered amount in order to be able to have enough strip of the custom color to handle production culls, shipping damage, jobsite/installation damage, and measurement errors by our customer.
