I am privileged to meet a lot of bright people during my trips around the globe. Car paint industry may not attract many people with PhD or MBA degrees, but believe me, many collision repair professionals in our industry are outstanding craftsmen and have true entrepreneurial spirit. We all can learn from each other, and …
What if you had limitless resources for your paint store or body shop? Read More »
Most probably, you have already faced this problem at some point of your career. A painter may feel frustrated why the paint looks a bit lighter, and the flakes appear flatter. Even if you spray an adjacent fender or a quarter panel in exactly the same way, the difference will still be there. Auto body …
By Alexandros Aslamazis This is my last blog post for 2013. It was a difficult year, yet with some great opportunities for developing new geographical markets. It is obvious that economic slowdown will continue in 2014. European Union, the world’s largest economy, is facing a second wave of crisis, and definitely not only in …
A few weeks ago I made a fast – one day trip to Serbia, specifically to visit Serbian automobile capital, Kragujevac city, which was truly fascinating. Transformation from old Zastava factory, which used to produce old Yugos, to a modern Fiat plant, made me really think that anything is possible. Just in 1999, NATO was …
Despite the fact that in modern vehicles, new plastics and composite materials, are more and more used, steel and aluminum remain the basic materials for car body construction, 1st and 3rd place accordingly (2nd by volume material used in cars is plastic).On average, one passenger vehicle contains about 1000kg of steel, and aluminum represents up …
Anticorrosive protection solutions for body repair works Read More »
In this post I would like to turn your attention to 3 tools, which almost every auto body repair shop owns and at the same time ignores their existence. Everyone knows that by investing in this equipment you will be able to improve overall paint quality, save time and money. This is the reason why …
Just a few weeks ago I had a conversation with a car body shop owner, who complained to me that to find a good painter nowadays is difficult. All the candidates claim that they are as good as close to perfect, but after a week of a trial you understand that this is very far …
7 questions to ask a painter to be hired in your auto body shop Read More »
What? Why? Customer pays our bills, customer is our everything… True, but… I have my short story to tell you. About eight months ago, one sunny, beautiful morning in May we received a phone call from one of our forwarders. “Where should we deliver the goods, your warehouse is burning?” It took a few …
Treat Your Suppliers Better Than Your Customers! Read More »
By Alexandros Aslamazis Some of you may be even surprised that such a question is posed anyway. However, my eyes have seen a good deal of car sprayers using whatever solvent they find available in their body shop to treat the surface prior coating. This is why it makes no harm to repeat certain refinishing …
Why thinner is no good for surface cleaning before painting? Read More »