Automotive Refinish Color Solutions
The color experts
We make better automotive color tools.
The art of color, the
science of success
Visual color tools are a serious investment for all coatings manufacturers.
The chip is a visual representation of the formula, developed to assist the bodyshop in selecting the most likely color to repair the vehicle.
Quick and accurate color matching makes more money in any bodyshop, more than using cheaper clears and primers or faster flash times.
ARC is focused on producing visual color documentation with the need for high color accuracy.
ARC's color swatches, produced with your paint system, increase your customers' profitability and your brand's performance.
▸Anatomy of an ARC swatch
- Large 50 x 90mm size, makes color matching easier
- Archival Cards, 300gsm art stock
- Sprayed by hand, to perfectly replicate your paint application
- Basecoat and Clearcoat, to perfectly replicate your paint application
- Individual codes can be included on each chip
- Precision cut for feather-free edges
Precision sprayed with your actual paint
▸Color swatches like no other
By using your brand's basecoat, 2K paint and your automotive clearcoat, we make the most accurate color swatches available.
ARC sprayed color chips give your customers a significantly better view of the color from different angles, including metallic and effect.
The large chip size makes for easy visual checks and is highly successful in selecting the best variant.
Split rings allow a chip to be removed from the swatch and placed on the vehicle.
The rounded corners and laminated backs prevent color chip damage and solvent ingress.
Lighter aluminum cabinet for easier transportation and better handling.
Color tools produced for refinish brands worldwide
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The ARC difference
▸Expertly sprayed to match real-life painting conditions
- Production scaled to your demand, from as little as 300 units of 5,600 individual chips, completed in 70 days.
- Ability to produce multiple private label color collections in a single run.
- Pricing that makes your CFO sing.
- Artisanal hand sprayed color chips.
- Accurate match to color formulation.
- Significantly better visual check and variant selection.
- Ease of handling making selection of the best variant successful.
- Easy color search and handling.
- Rounded corners and laminated backs preventing color chip damage.
- Easy to insert annual color updates.
▸Innovative design solutions
ARC prides itself on exceptional customer service, innovation, flexibility and understanding our customer's needs. Our team likes going the extra mile, as nothing is better than the feeling of accomplishment when we exceed our client's expectations in the quality of the product and service they received.
From the design of the swatches through to the development of cabinet systems, we use our decades of expertise in recommending solutions, so clients have the best possible experience and results.
From start to finish, ARC will work with your team, using your color standards and paint to design and produce outstanding color tools for your refinish brand.
- 20 years experience in refinish.
- A strategic focus on ensuring "first time right color match."
- Enthusiastic, motivated team.
- A passion for innovation and design.
▸Color standards and QC
- Every color is matched to supplied standards using our customers' paint, so the color mix is an accurate match to the car that is being repaired.
- We conduct multiple quality checks to ensure accurate representation of the formula.
- ARC's ISO 9001 processes include quality control measures to hold the color accuracy.
Our process
The same process your bodyshop will follow
Our color team follow an identical process to how the bodyshop will use your paint system.
Starting with the formula from your color mixing software, our experts weigh out your toners and produce a spray-out card for verification against your color standard to ensure the match is accurate.
Once the match is confirmed, we spray the color in a process that replicates the spraying of a vehicle in a spray booth. We follow your standard specifications for ground coats, flash-off times and any special application instructions.
We then spray our archival card sheets with your automotive system's 2K clearcoat, so the final swatch is a faithful reproduction of exactly how a bodyshop would use your system.
▸Best practice for color matching
To correctly analyze the color, always compare the color under the correct light sources: sunlight or color corrected light.
Talk to us about your color tools
Tell us which paint system you use and what your brand needs. We will come back to you.
Automotive Refinish Color Solutions Inc.Canelands Industrial Park
2129 Old Mill Way, Verulam
KZN, South Africa tony@arcswatch.com
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