UK SIC 2007 25610: Treatment and coating of metals

Maps to NACE Rev. 2 25.61 and NACE Rev. 2.1 25.51, 25.52, 25.53. ISIC Rev. 4: 2592.

UK SIC 2007 code 25610 is "Treatment and coating of metals". UK SIC 2007 follows NACE Rev. 2 at four digits and adds a national fifth digit, so the first four digits, 25.61, are the NACE Rev. 2 class "Treatment and coating of metals". UK companies state one or more SIC codes when they file at Companies House, and the codes appear in the company record. In NACE Rev. 2.1 the NACE Rev. 2 class behind this code is split across 3 classes, so check the activity before you convert.

Conversion

Classification	Code	Label
UK SIC 2007	25610	Treatment and coating of metals
NACE Rev. 2	25.61	Treatment and coating of metals
NACE Rev. 2.1	25.51	Coating of metals
NACE Rev. 2.1	25.52	Heat treatment of metals
NACE Rev. 2.1	25.53	Machining of metals
ISIC Rev. 4	2592

What the class includes (NACE Rev. 2 notes)

This class includes: - plating, anodising etc. of metals - heat treatment of metals - deburring, sandblasting, tumbling, cleaning of metals - colouring, engraving of metals - non-metallic coating of metals: • plasticising, enamelling, lacquering etc. - hardening, buffing of metals

What it excludes

This class excludes: - activities of farriers, see 01.62 - printing onto metals, see 18.12 - metal coating of plastics, see 22.29 - rolling precious metals onto base metals or other metals, see 24.41, 24.42, 24.43, 24.44 - "while-you-wait" engraving services, see 95.29

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UK SIC 2007: Companies House condensed list of the ONS classification (gov.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0), read 2026-10-05. NACE data: EU Vocabularies (CC BY 4.0). Information only.