Collision Repair Education Foundation Seeks “Back to School” Donations
The Collision Repair Education Foundation is inviting the industry to help ensure high school and college collision instructors have a great start to their fall semester by donating tools, equipment, consumables and other items.
How to Train an Auto Body Painter’s Helper
While it’s true the techniques are many and the fundamentals are few, I’m going to teach a new helper a specific technique within specific parameters, staying faithful to the fundamentals in order to achieve the desired outcome.
PPG Posts Q3 Collision Refinish Training
Classes cover key collision refinish subjects and are designed to ensure that paint technicians are up to date with PPG products, processes and technological advances.
PPG Offers New Course to Prep Automotive Refinish Preppers
The two-day class is designed for entry-level assistant refinish technicians who have never received any formal PPG training and work alongside body and refinish technicians using PPG products and processes.
Automotive Refinish: Profitability in the Paint Shop
With tighter profit margins today, we need to track our paint and materials usage and a host of other numbers. After all, if you can’t measure it,
you can’t manage it.
Reader’s Choice: What’s the Best Way to Save Money on Paint and Materials?
What’s the best way to save money on the “small stuff” – filler, sandpaper, drill bits, etc.?
Perfect Auto Body Shop Paint Job: Achieve a ‘No-Buffer’
The holy grail of the paint shop is a dirt-free paint job – a no-buffer. And we don’t achieve it by hope and prayer.
3M Automotive Aftermarket Division Keeps NASCAR Teams in Fast Lane
It’s said that an individual is never more than 10 feet away from a 3M product. In the NASCAR garage, it can be said that a crewmember or driver likely is in constant contact with a 3M product.
Inside the Cheap, Rusty World of Used Car Body Shops in the 1970s
As a PB&E jobber in the 1970s, Mark Clark learned that rust ruled in used car body shops, and there were several degrees of cheap.
Add on the Profit with Bedliners, Light-Emitting Coatings, Armor and More
These add-on businesses could be just what you need to boost your bottom line.
