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Pros and Cons of Ceramic Coatings in the Car Detailing Industry

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Introduction Ceramic coatings have become a buzzword in the car detailing industry, promising to revolutionize the way we protect and maintain our vehicles. These innovative products are designed to provide long-lasting protection and enhance the appearance of a car’s paintwork. However, like any technology, ceramic coatings come with their own set of advantages and disadvantages. …

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The best read if you are in the car refinishing and collision repair industry

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In our industry we are really not spoiled by quality literature on the collision repair and its problems. I was pleasantly surprised when I stumbled upon on a book called “The secrets of America’s greatest body shops” written by Dave Luehr and Stacey Phillips. Dave Luehr is an expert and consultant, founder of Elite Body …

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Would you like your child to work as painter in car repair shop?

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As a supplier of paint related materials, I always keep in mind the end users of our products – car body repair professionals. It doesn’t matter if you are not selling directly to the body shops, in the end of the supply chain there is always a painter who is paying, and I clearly know …

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How medieval painters helped the modern times car painters…

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The portfolio of modern undercoats – generic name for various coatings between the vehicle’s surface and the paint – is quite rich. Primers, sealers, surfacers, fillers of various colors, filling properties and budgets are available for a contemporary painter. However, one category of primers stands out – wet-on-wet primers or also called sealers. In this …

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Spectrophotometer or color chips, what is better tool for color matching?

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For those of us who are directly involved in car refinishing business, it is not a secret that color matching is the most challenging aspect of the repair in a bodyshop. Car manufacturers, in order to attract new customers, produce more and more complex colors with special effects, pearls and inked clearcoats. Furthermore, even the …

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Market differences between the UK and the rest of Europe

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The idea of this article came to me on board of a flight from my business trip from London to Athens, after a week spent with Etalon’s customers in Ireland and the United Kingdom. I was thinking about the differences between the Great Britain and the continental Europe in various aspects of life. You can …

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What force is the ultimate drive for change in the collision repair industry?

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Insurance companies’ role. I admit that it is a tricky question without an obvious answer for everyone. However, I believe that insurance companies – the main payers of the repair bills – push the collision repair industry forward. Some of you may disagree, claiming, not without a good reason, that insurers often prevent bodyshops from …

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History of Generic Names in the Automotive Refinishing Industry.

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In our everyday life, we use many words, which, in fact, are registered trademarks. As time passes, consumers use those words generically to describe certain products. Kleenex, Jeep, Post-it, Frisbee, Aspirin, Xerox, Google, Jacuzzi, are all registered trademarks, but we never think about it. Certainly, it is a great success for any company, when their …

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