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| Our products & our business is constantly changing, to keep you in touch with what is happening see our press releases for the latest news. Read the full articles by clicking on the headline. |
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| 01/07/10
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| DuPont Refinish has recently renewed a contract with Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd which sees it continue to be a preferred worldwide supplier of paint refinish material and services to the Aston Martin Body Repair Programme. |
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| 28/06/10
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| Sir Stirling Moss has been racing cars since 1948, so it’s fair to say he knows a bit about the subject. When the time came for his own classic OSCA FS372 to undergo a refurbishment, he made the decision to entrust the job to DuPont Refinish. With the help of Autofix 2000, a DuPont Refinish Five Star bodyshop based in Lincolnshire, the 50-year-old racing car - one of only six known surviving cars and one of only two with the original Morelli bodywork - was brought back to its original, pristine condition. |
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| 25/06/10
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| Seven new IVECO Stralis 500 trucks, painted in DuPont™ Cromax® Deep Purplish Blue, were handed over to the Fiat Yamaha Team during a ceremony at the Autodromo Nazionale in Monza, Italy, on 15 April 2010. The trucks were used for the first time at the third round of the 2010 MotoGP season in Jerez, Spain, to move the Fiat Yamaha Team equipment including the Yamaha YZR-M1 bikes, spare parts and hospitality equipment. |
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| 09/04/10
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| The DuPont Refinish 2010 training programme provides courses so bodyshop owners and refinishers can develop their skills in order to be more productive in the bodyshop. |
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| 01/03/10
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| DuPont Refinish has introduced a two-component, polyester putty kit – PP0490 Special Putty Kit for Steel – specifically for the repair of steel surfaces which are liable to stress and damage. Supplied as a full kit, PP0490 includes a putty powder (Steel Putty Powder PP0491), a reactive diluent (Steel Putty Activator PP0492), some mixing cups, spoons and spatulas. |
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| 01/03/10
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| General Motors Europe (GME) and DuPont Refinish signed an agreement on 1 January 2010 in which the paint brand has been officially approved to supply its products for body repairs on GME’s Opel and Vauxhall brands as a participant in the GME Body and Paint Program. |
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| 12/01/10
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| The 57th annual DuPont Global Automotive Colour Popularity Report, the original and most authoritative source for automotive colour popularity information and trends, has just been released. It highlights the fact that silver, black and white are still the top ranked colours worldwide in 2009. |
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| 27/11/09
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| DuPont Refinish has just introduced an upgraded version of its colour retrieval website on www.dupontrefinish.co.uk offering refinishers a more flexible and productive way to obtain correct colour formulas. |
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| 23/10/09
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| 2009 is the 20th anniversary of the inception of Five Star – the DuPont Refinish European repairer network of top-quality bodyshops, who all share the same high standards. |
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| 08/10/09
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| DuPont Refinish has introduced the next generation of the ChromaVision® spectrophotometer - an essential tool for all refinishers to enable perfect colour matching. |
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| 28/09/09
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| The DuPont Refinish Go Pro virtual bodyshop, first launched in October 2008, has been updated. The virtual bodyshop is now a Five Star member and the brand new, comprehensive package of Five Star signage can be viewed on the tour. The site is specifically for bodyshops to find out how DuPont Refinish can help improve their productivity from the moment the damaged vehicle arrives with them to its delivery back to the customer. |
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| 15/09/09
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| DuPont Refinish has further extended its range of Cromax® special factory packed (Fac Pac) colours by introducing the Nissan KAB Blueish Silver Basecoat - WB-X5078 to answer the growing demand for aftermarket solutions to some exceptional OEM trends. The new waterborne basecoat colour was developed, with the inclusion of a new Hydroshine pigment, to specifically match the new Nissan GT-R basecoat colour, called Blueish Silver, for Nissan approved repair centres. It is available from DuPont Refinish on request. |
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| 12/08/09
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DuPont Refinish has just launched a waterborne basecoat version of its ChromaLusion® special effects paint. The new ChromaLusion® WB colours are a VOC-compliant alternative to the solvent-based ChromaLusion® colours.
The six new, ready-for-use, ChromaLusion® WB colours have been specifically designed for use with the Cromax® waterborne basecoat mixing system.
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| 12/08/09
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| The Refinish Academy in Stevenage has been accredited as an Automotive Technician Accreditation (ATA) centre for refinishing. The staff, premises and processes of the Academy have been carefully passed by assessors from the IMI, and now for the first time refinishers using any paint brand can pass their Paint Technician or Senior Paint Technician assessment at the centre. |
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| 06/08/09
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| DuPont Refinish has introduced a more user-friendly and convenient way for distributors to purchase working tools and promotional items via a new and dedicated online shop. Upon registration and activation of a personal account, distributors can now order DuPont Refinish products by logging into the distributors extranet at www.dupontrefinish.co.uk. |
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| 30/07/09
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Kieran Giles and his colleagues at Harpenden Classic & Performance in Hertfordshire have recently restored a 50-year-old Jaguar MK IX back to its original 1959 condition using only DuPont Refinish paints.
Kieran had been repairing cars for over 25 years before opening his 5,000 ft² bodyshop in 2006. Today, he has a weekly throughput of 10 cars for which he does all the mechanics as well as the body and custom paint work. He specialises in restoration and customisation; nothing makes him happier than renovating beautiful cars back to their former glory.
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| 23/07/09
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| DuPont Refinish continually develops new technologies to improve its product systems and it has recently added two new binders: 1645WB Low Viscosity Binder Low Humidity, and 1655WB High Viscosity Binder Low Humidity. These binders are to be used with the highly productive Cromax® mixing system and will allow for easier application of the basecoat in low humidity conditions. |
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| 12/06/09
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| To enable Ford to support its growing customer base in the Central & Eastern Europe sales area, DuPont Refinish has extended its reach within the Ford Paint Program by becoming a preferred paint supplier to Ford Central & Eastern Europe Sales LLC (Ford CEE). |
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| 17/11/08
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ColorNet® Pro: colour matching made easy, by DuPont Refinish
A perfect repair deserves a perfect colour match. It's what the vehicle owners expect, and for the refinisher, it’s a significant measure of competence. With the assistance of DuPont Refinish colour-matching tools, managing this skill to perfection becomes easy. This is the reason DuPont Refinish has introduced ColorNet® Pro, a sophisticated computerised paint management system. |
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| 10/11/08
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DuPont Refinish strengthen its positioning by introducing its Go Pro virtual bodyshop.
Bodyshops are about more than just paint, so they need products and services to help them maximise their productivity. This is why DuPont Refinish introduces Go Pro, a virtual bodyshop designed specifically for bodyshops to find out how the aftermarket paint manufacturer can help from the moment the damaged vehicle arrives with them to its delivery back to the customer. Launched on 2 October 2008, this interactive initiative is aimed at bodyshop managers and refinishers as well as fleet, lease and insurance companies and vehicle owners. The Go Pro virtual bodyshop is accessible at www.dupontrefinish.co.uk. |
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