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03 Nov 2017
Bodyshop Awards presented at Carton House
The Bodyshop Awards, part of the Irish Auto Trade Awards, were presented at the five-star Carton House, Co. Kildare on Thursday, October 26. The Bodyshop Awards are sponsored by Enterprise Rent-A-Car, a specialist in the provision of replacement vehicles and courtesy cars, which are relied upon in the event of a breakdown or vehicle incident.
03 Nov 2017
Permafleet Industry from Spies Hecker offers bodyshops potential extra business
Spies Hecker is offering bodyshops who want to expand their business, a flexible, easy-to-use industrial paint system that covers a wide range of applications and qualities. From machinery structures to garden fences, the Permafleet Industry paint mixing system is suitable for coating a variety of substrates. It offers a huge range of different colours, textured
03 Nov 2017
Cromax adds new video to its Straight from the Heart image campaign
Cromax has added a new video to its Straight from the Heart image campaign, whose titles encapsulates the idea behind the online Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) initiative. It centres on video interviews of refinishers from the region who use Cromax. The newest video in the campaign focuses on a refinisher’s experience with digital
03 Nov 2017
Standox Calendar 2018: from hero to super-villain
The 2018 Standox car calendar is titled Comics & Cars. 1970s and 1980s automotive classics – with typical comic strip treatments – feature every month. Each of the calendar’s elaborately detailed images conjures up its own comic book story. Photographer Ramon Wink, who shot the twelve iconic cars featured in the 2018 Standox calendar, and
03 Nov 2017
Axalta celebrates success of solar car teams in World Solar Challenge
Axalta Coating Systems is celebrating the success of two student teams at the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2017, a competition of experimental solar cars that took place, October 8-15 in Australia. The Bochum SolarCar Team and The Punch Powertrain Solar Team both developed effective and reliable solar vehicles that successfully completed a 3,021 kilometres race
03 Nov 2017
Glasurit offers bodyshops grey shade concept
Glasurit now offers body shops the grey shade concept for perfectly adjusting the undercoat to a grey shade. Tinting in the matching grey shade not only guarantees high colour accuracy of the topcoat, but also enables spray painters to save process times and material since less topcoat needs to be applied. Some colors require a