NWS0045
30/05/2013
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New ColourBase updates for Epilife and EP2 Epoxy Primer
HMG Paints are pleased to announce that the new epoxy database is now available on the ColourBase mixing system. ColourBase allows HMG's wide network of distributors to match to the high standards of the HMG main site, guaranteeing customers the same colour across the country.
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NWS0044
30/05/2013
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HMG Feature in The Manufacturing Institue Make It Video
At HMG we have a long association with The Manufacturing Institute, with many of our employees going through the courses run by The Manufacturing Institute each year, so there was no hesitation when ask to help and get involved with their latest campaign, Make It.
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NWS0043
31/01/2013
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HMG PAINTS TRANSFER DEADLINE DAY SWOOP
As the country is gripped by footballs Transfer Deadline day, HMG Paints, the UK’s largest independent industrial paints manufacturer, has swooped to sign new sales consultant, Chris Vickers.
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NWS0042
12/11/2012
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Movember 2012 The Hairier Face of the Paint Industry
For the 3rd year running, the male members of staff at HMG Paints Ltd will be growing moustaches in support of the global charity initiative, Movember. In the process, they will not only raise money for the charity, but will also become ‘walking, talking billboards’, raising the awareness of two often-overlooked men’s health issues, prostate cancer and testicular cancer.
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NWS0041
09/10/2012
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John Falder Appointed New Chairman of the British Coatings Federation Industrial Coatings Council
At the British Coatings Federation’s (BCF) meeting on October 3rd, HMG Paints Ltd’s Managing Director, John Falder, was appointed Chairman of the Industrial Coatings Council of the BCF.
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NWS0040
19/09/2012
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Win The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists on DVD
To celebrate HMG Paints' involvement with The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists we are giving you the chance to win one of 3 copies of Aardmans fabulous new movie The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists on DVD.
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NWS0037
13/09/2012
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What are people saying about HMG Paints
Like many companies HMG Paints are also on Twitter, since we've been on we've had a few nice things said about us so we thought we'd share a selection. If you would like to Follow us or Tweet us you can click this button:
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NWS0039
29/08/2012
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HMG Paints helps with renovation of the MK1 carriage
Supporters of Rainhill’s railway heritage have been out in force recently to celebrate the unveiling of the freshly painted MK1 carriage at Rainhill Library.
The work, undertaken by Northern Rail engineering staff and its contractors, WG Specialist Coatings and HMG Paints, completes the renovation of the MK1 carriage.
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NWS0038
14/06/2012
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New Community Centre's Jubilee Paint Theme
A new Community Centre is sporting a Jubilee colour scheme thanks to a kind donation from HMG Paints. The new Whitemoss Community Centre, made possible with £50,000 worth of funding from Gorundwork, Community Spaces & The Big Lottery, was opened recently by the Lord Mayor of Manhcester, Harry Lyons.
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NWS0036
23/11/2011
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HMG Paints Aerosol & Small Packaging Price List Online
Customised Price Lists for HMG Paints' Aerosols & Small Packaging portfolio are now available to access online.
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NWS0035
18/10/2011
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HMG Paints Recruit Former DuPont Commercial Manager
HMG Paints Ltd, the UK’s, largest independent paints manufacturer, have recently recruited former DuPont UK Commercial Manager, Andy Moores, as a coatings consultant and as their representative for the South of England and South Wales.
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NWS0034
25/08/2011
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HMG Paints Love MCR
HMG Paints is showing its love for Manchester by placing the now iconic I Love MCR Posters on its own iconic Dreadnowt.
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NWS0031
07/06/2011
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HMG Paints & Brian Falder 80th Birthday BBQ
On 27th May HMG staff past and present came together to jointly celebrate HMG's 80th Birthday and HMG Paints Chairman Brian Falders 80th Birthday.
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NWS0030
07/06/2011
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HMG Paints + Sport = Winning Partnership
HMG Paints has a long history of supplying coatings to sporting teams and venues, you can see who and what we have supplied over our long history.
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NWS0029
31/03/2011
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3D Paint
HMG Paints is taking paint to a new dimension, literally. With the launch of its 3D range of coatings. The new revolutionary 3D Coatings and colours were launced on April 1st 2011
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NWS0028
28/02/2011
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HMG support Get Britain Trading
HMG Paints is pledging its support for the Get Britain Trading campaign launched by the Forum of Private Business.
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NWS0026
06/12/2010
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Students Refurbish Team GBs Bobsleigh
With a kind donation from HMG Paints, Level 2 Paint and Body Refinishing students at the Manchester College Preston Street Campus were given the exciting opportunity of working on the Great Britain (GB) bobsleigh before it was used at the Winter Olympics qualifying stages in Austria last month.
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NWS0025
03/11/2010
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HMG Movember Challenge
HMG staff are entering the Movember challenge: Movember is about raising funds and awareness for men's health, specifically prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. One man dies every hour from the disease in the UK.
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NWS0021
21/06/2010
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HMG Supporting Unrealised Potential at the Cornerhouse
HMG Paints are pleased to be supporting the Unrealised Potential exhibition. The exhibition is taking place at the Cornerhouse, Manchester's international centre for contemporary visual arts and film. The Free Exhibition starts on Saturday 17th July and runs until Sunday 12th September.
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NWS0020
21/05/2010
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HMG Fly The Flag
HMG Paints are once again showing their support for the England team at the World Cup in South Africe.
Our 25ft 'Dreadnowt' is now sporting its world cup kit in the form of a St Georges Cross, however we also want your photos to see how you are getting behing Fabio and the Three Lions
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NWS0019
19/05/2010
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Great Manchester Run 2010 Post Race
HMG Paints entered its biggest team ever in the BUPA Great Manchester Run, the UK’s largest 10k run with 36,000 participants. The team of 38 staff, family and friends includes 17 first timers, 15 competing for the third successive time, brothers and sisters, and marital partners. This year running for Breakthrough Breast Cancer and The Prostate Cancer Charity, see how we all got on.
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NWS0018
13/05/2010
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Team HMG Supports Two Cancer Charities
HMG Paints is entering its biggest team ever in the BUPA Great Manchester Run, the UK’s largest 10k run with an expected 33,000 participants. The team of 44 staff, family and friends includes 17 first timers, 15 competing for the third successive time, brothers and sisters, and marital partners. This year running for Breakthrough Breast Cancer and The Prostate Cancer Charity
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NWS0017
01/04/2010
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Tartan Paint
HMG Paints of Manchester, has introduced a Tartan paint which offers users a virtually unlimited palette for all order sizes, across an extensive range of high performance HMG base coatings in order to create custom tartan prints. Packed into 2.5 litre cans ready for use , HMG Tartan paint comprises around twenty solid tinters, five aluminium tinters for metallic finishes, and five unique reduced-strength colourants, for more accurate tinting of pale and pastel shades. The Shades use Nano-Technology to remember their position in a process similar to memory foam metals.
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NWS0016
10/02/2009
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Restored Manchester Built Model A Ford Reflects Company Heritage
Launched in America during December 1927, on the back of one of the biggest advertising campaigns the world had ever seen, the Ford Model A was an outstanding automotive success, with more than five million built by the time production ceased.
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NWS0015
28/07/2008
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HMG Analyses Paintwork For Classic Car Transporter Restoration
A colour library containing over 250,000 shades, original paint formulations that extend back over 75 years and archives that cover virtually every factory finish in the history of automotive manufacturing in this country, mean that Manchester-based HMG Paints represents an invaluable resource for classic vehicle restorers and refinishers.
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NWS0014
24/06/2008
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Specialist Contract Packaging Service An Ongoing Success
Contract packaging and toll manufacturing facilities are widely used by brand owners, private label companies and others, when producing short runs for market testing, trialling an unfamiliar packaging format, where there is no in-house equipment or expertise for a particular job, there is a short- or longer-term need for extra production capacity or even where there is a requirement to outsource the entire manufacturing function.
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NWS0013
13/06/2008
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HMG Delivers First Class Technical Solution For Royal Mail Trailers
Innovative British paintmaker, HMG Paints of Manchester, has developed a first-class solar reflective coating for Royal Mail double-deck trailers, being built by commercial vehicle bodywork specialist, The Cartwright Group of Altrincham. Based on a specially modified version of HMG's A211 clear acrylic polyurethane paint, it incorporates special interference pigments, which permit a high transmission of natural light, while limiting levels of solar rdiation.
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NWS0012
04/04/2008
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Belfast SOS Bus Liveried With HMG's Acrythane Paint
HMG Paints' high performance Acrythane commercial vehicle finish is adorning a 60ft long, bright yellow, bendy bus that is now offering medical care and general assistance for those enjoying the vibrant night life in Belfast. Manned by volunteers and paramedics, the SOS Bus sits in the city centre every Friday and Saturday night, providing a refuge for anyone in distress or at risk due to drugs and alcohol.
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NWS0011
04/03/2008
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He Loves Us, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! He Loves Us, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!
Ted the Sprayer favours HMG's cellulose paint for rock stars' guitars. 'One name that covers everything' is the long-standing slogan of Manchester paintmaker HMG, reflecting the fact that over almost 80 years its high performance coatings and adhesives have been applied to virtually every kind of structure, vehicle, building, boat, furniture, painted product, even museum artefact.
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NWS0010
11/10/2007
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HMG's Magic Line Marking Paint 'Hysol' Passes The Gridiron Test
Hosting multiple playing codes on a single sports ground makes efficient use of facilities, but problems can arise over the different pitch markings. That is especially true of American Football, with its characteristic yard lines and hash marks that give rise to the name 'gridiron', and it potentially hampered BAFL (British American Football League) efforts to get more of its top teams into stadiums, allowing more spectators to follow the sport in comfort.
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NWS0009
17/08/2007
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Raindrops Keep Falling On My Paint! HMG Has The Solution
Raincoat was initially conceived to meet a specific customer requirement for Ultra Secure Products, a division of GB Industries Ltd, the leading manufacturer of steel anti-vandal site accommodation, and has been successfully trialled at its East Yorkshire headquarters, even during the recent rain-soaked British summer.
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NWS0008
26/07/2007
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'Priceless' Mobile Post Office GPO 2 Restored To Original Condition
Built in 1937 for the provision of telegraph, telephone and postal facilities at major shows and horseracing events like Ascot, GPO 2 is now the only surviving Mobile Post Office of its kind, having been in service till the mid-80's and once converted to wartime use as a recruitment centre, then a wireless transmitting station.
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NWS0007
27/06/2007
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HMG Among First UK Employers To Sign Government Skills Pledge
British independent surface coatings manufacturer, HMG Paints of Manchester, was among a select group of 150 employers signing a 'skills pledge' to continue training its staff, at a Central London event attended by incoming Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and the Secretary of State for Education & Skills, Alan Johnson.
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NWS0006
15/06/2007
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HMG Donates Paint For Refurbishing Ex Rally Community Outreach Van
Independent UK paintmaker, HMG Paints has donated high performance commercial transport (CT) coatings for refurbishing a community outreach vehicle, owned by not-for-profit urban regeneration organisation, Community Support Plus of Cheetham Hill, Manchester.
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NWS0005
30/05/2007
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Size Matters, But So Does The Complete Package
Says Steve Louis, Sales & Marketing Manager, HMG Transport Coatings Division When spraying large vehicles, size clearly does matter, but so do many other factors that should be taken into consideration in the pre-planning of any paint job.
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NWS0004
02/05/2007
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New Network CT Scheme & High Performance Transport Coatings
HMG Paints is drawing upon its strengths as the leading supplier to the UK bus & coach industry and a growing presence in the CV refinishing sector, to launch a one-stop coatings solutions network for the Commercial Transport industry.
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NWS0003
26/03/2007
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HMG at the Commercial Vehicle Show 2007
As part of our continued success and commitment to the CV market, we are pleased to announce our attendance at The Commercial Vehicle Show 07 to be held at the NEC, Birmingham, 24th-26th April. This high profile show is expected to attract over 30,000 visitors from all aspects of the Commercial Transport Market.
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NWS0002
01/04/2005
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HMG's Paint Away Takes To The Field At Twickenham & Murrayfield
HMG Paints has developed a unique, waterborne, temporary grass marking paint, Paint Away, for reproducing promotional signage at sports grounds. It was created in partnership with associate company, HMG Coatings London of Rainham, Essex, which has already supplied the product for use at Six Nations rugby matches at Twickenham, Murrayfield and the Stade de France, as well as the Tsunami Appeal exhibition game.
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NWS0001
01/12/2003
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Ferrozinc Helps Preserve Historical World War 1 Warship
The conservationist role of paint is often underestimated, yet it helps to protect and preserve many vital raw materials like steel, wood and masonry, extending their service life and saving valuable natural resources. Manchester-based HMG Paints demonstrated this recently when it supplied over 500 litres of its rust inhibiting primer, Ferrozinc, to protect the hull of mainland Britain's only surviving World War I warship, Her Majesty's Monitor M33.
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