Статистическая классификация экономической деятельности NACE Rev. 2.0

This class includes:
- galvanising, including general (batch) hot-dip galvanising
- phosphate or chromate conversion coating
- cladding, electroplating, anodising, etc., of metals
- colouring of metals
- non-metallic coating of metals, e.g.:
powder or plastic coating, enamelling, lacquering

This class excludes:
- activities of farriers, see 01.62
- printing onto metals, see 18.12
- metal coating of plastics, see 22.25
- cladding of base metals with a covering of silver, gold or platinum, see 24.41
- heat treatment of metals, see 25.52
- hardening of metals, see 25.52
- painting of metals on buildings and civil engineering structures, see 43.34
- while-you-wait engraving services, see 95.29

This class includes:
- general activities for the heat treatment of metals
- thermomechanical heat treatment of metals (e.g. preheating, annealing, hardening, tempering, quenching, deep freezing of metal)
- thermochemical heat treatment of metals (e.g. carburising, carbonitriding, nitrocarburising, nitriding, oxidising, sulphidising, boriding)

This class includes:
- boring, turning, milling, eroding, planing, lapping, broaching, levelling, sawing, grinding, sharpening, deburring, sandblasting, tumbling, polishing, buffing, welding, splicing, etc., of metalwork pieces
- cutting of and engraving or writing on metals by means of laser beams

This class excludes:
- activities of farriers, see 01.62