Colour plant exceeding expectations
17th June 2014

Network Veka trade fabricator Modplan expanded its painting facility earlier this year, a move that has been welcomed by many of its customers. Managing Director Heidi Sachs said, “Expanding our painting facility means we are now offering much faster turnaround times – there’s a maximum lead time of two to three weeks on all colours. Feedback from our customers has told us it’s made colour a lot more accessible and helped bring colour into the mainstream.”

Aside from the dramatically improved turnaround times, Heidi had other reasons for bringing Modplan’s colour offering in-house, not least the quality of the product on offer. She says, “Quality is our watchword at Modplan so bringing colour in-house made perfect sense to us. It means we can guarantee that the colour and quality is to our exacting standards first time every time and we are not relying on any third parties.”

Modplan’s painting facility has been equipped to state-of-the-art standards for a high specification finish. The fabricator uses Kolorbond, which forms a molecular cross bond with the plastic surface for a longer lasting finish, unlike most other paints for plastics which stick to the substrate. Frames can be painted in any RAL colour and a wide range of finishes is also available, including woodgrain effects. This opens up a world of possibilities because any products not yet available in a foiled finish can be spray painted to match foiled items, meaning that multi-product contracts can achieve a streamlined and complete look. Modplan also offers an all-over colour because as well as spraying the interior and exterior frames, the areas that are visible when the window is open are also sprayed.
 

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