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PRS0060 07/11/2011	Successful 1.2 m RGF Bid To Secure Employment Increase Output HMG Paints was one of just 119 successful bids nationally, in the second round of the £1.4 billion Regional Growth Fund programme. It has secured £1.2 million in Government funding toward the development of a new facility for the production of high performance waterborne coatings.
PRS0059 01/11/2011	Movember Challenge 2011 HMG Paints Mo Bro’s grow mo’s to help change the face of men’s health for Movember and Prostate Cancer
PRS0058 19/09/2011	Smart New Paintwork For EMERGE Refuse Collection Fleet HMG Paints has highlighted its strong local ties by donating paint for a fleet of EMERGE refuse vehicles that provide city-wide waste collections. One of the pioneers of waste recycling in the city, EMERGE (East Manchester Environment & Resources Group) is a social enterprise with 15 years’ experience of promoting the understanding and practise of the 3Rs of waste management: Reduction, Reuse and Recycling.
PRS0057 26/07/2011	Versatile Non Isocyanate Topcoat Is A Paint For The Professional Finish Nisocoat 2, a new non-isocyanate acrylic coating, which offers similar technical performance to 2-pack polyurethane finishes, with none of the health and safety concerns associated with isocyanates.
PRS0056 01/06/2011	HMG Adhesives Tacky Products With A Worldwide Reputation Among the unsung heroes of the HMG product portfolio, with a development history dating back over 70 years, are its conservation-grade speciality adhesives. Although perhaps best known for its high performance paints, the name HMG is renowned amongst museums, galleries, archaeologists and conservationists around the world for its Heat & Waterproof Adhesive, known as ‘the blue tube’ and B72 Restoration Adhesive, ‘the purple tube’.
PRS0055 02/12/2010	HMG Supplies Paint For One Off 50th Anniversary Supertram Anniversaries are in the air at Manchester paintmaker, HMG Paints. This year the family-owned firm is celebrating its 80th anniversary, while across the Pennines the Sheffield Supertram operator, for whom its supplies high performance refinishing paints, is marking half a century since the first generation of corporation trams made their final journeys through the city streets.
PRS0054 18/11/2010	Water Based HydroThane Succeeds In Railcare Topcoat Trials HMG Paints’ new water-based 2K polyurethane topcoat, HydroThane, has now been specified for use by Railcare Wolverton, a leading UK specialist in maintaining and refurbishing railway rolling stock.
PRS0053 02/11/2010	Airships To Rocketships, HMG Celebrates 80 Years On October 4th 1930, the ill-fated British airship R101 took off on its maiden overseas flight to India, only to crash dramatically the next morning. The day it departed, Manchester paint manufacturer HMG Paints was founded, virtually at the birth of the modern coatings industry, through the earlier development of ground-breaking cellulose, acrylic and emulsion paint technology.
PRS0052 23/09/2010	The 3 Brushketeers: Bailey Trailers, Fisher Factors & HMG Paints The UK’s biggest agricultural trailer manufacturer, Bailey Trailers of Lincolnshire, is now using British-made HMG industrial paints, supplied by the county’s leading motor factor, Fisher, to achieve a first-class finish on its latest product lines.
PRS0051 01/06/2010	HMG vying for Number 1 HMG Paints, has announced its intention of becoming the No 1 supplier to the domestic industrial coatings market. It is already market leader in the UK bus & coach refinishing sector, has built a strong reputation for responsive customer service and offers as wide a range of paints, powder coatings and pre-treatments as any other British company, so has excellent credentials.
PRS0050 01/06/2010	HMG Supported Artists Create A Splash At Market Estate Project Continuing its low key patronage of the arts, HMG Paints’ latest creative collaboration proved to be, literally, the highlight of the Market Estate Project, a one-day creative exhibition by 75 community artists, leading up to the demolition of one of London’s most notorious estates. The young artistic partnership of Jessica Blandford and Joe Morris recreated a 1960’s living room and painted everything inside fluorescent yellow with paint supplier by HMG.
PRS0049 25/05/2010	HMG Paints Fly the Flag With many offices, factories, pubs and households in football-crazy Manchester planning to fly the flag for England in the build up to the 2010 World Cup, HMG Paints is going a step further by repainting its landmark sculpture as a giant Cross of St George.
PRS0048 05/02/2010	Titan HMG Paints Showcased In Indian Business Mission Speaking at an official Indo-UK business seminar in Southern India recently, Patricia Hewitt MP, former cabinet minister and chair of the UK-India Business Council, said that the joint venture company forged between Manchester-based HMG Paints and Titan Paints & Chemicals of Coimbatore was an ideal example of how commercial partnerships can be fostered between the two countries.
PRS0047 08/01/2010	Canal Workboat Restored For 200th Anniversary Celebrations The conservation and protective roles of surface coatings are often overlooked, yet safeguarding steel structures from corrosion, for example, or returning historic fabrications to original condition are important, environmentally, aesthetically and often culturally. Take the Avon Vale canal barge, an historic workboat that once plied its trade on the Kennet & Avon Canal, transporting equipment and providing a platform for canal-side maintenance.
PRS0046 22/09/2009	The Artist, The Curator, The Paintmaker & The City Inn A Mancunian artist brought up in the shadow of Maine Road soccer stadium, who later became an occasional artist-in-residence with a leading local paintmaker and used their traditional coach enamels to develop his distinctive abstract style, is to exhibit a collection of his latest works at one of Manchester’s newest, most stylish hotels.
PRS0045 03/09/2009	MMU Moves Up Formula Student Grid With A Little Help From HMG Go-ahead Manchester surface coatings manufacturer, HMG Paints, has continued its support of the Manchester Metropolitan University entry in Formula Student, Europe’s biggest student motorsport event. Run by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and backed by some of Formula 1’s biggest names, including Brawn GP team principal, Ross Brawn, Formula Student helps to breed world-class engineers, by challenging university students from around the world to design and build open-wheeled racing cars, then race them around the Silverstone circuit.
PRS0044 29/07/2009	New Unit Lite Gives Distributors Increased Flexibility Leading British paint manufacturer, HMG Paints of Manchester, has introduced a standalone tinting system, Unit Lite, which offers distributors a virtually unlimited palette for all order sizes, across an extensive range of high performance HMG base coatings.
PRS0043 21/04/2009	Tornado's New Livery Courtesy Of Craftmaster & HMG Paints Tornado, the first steam locomotive to be built in Britain for almost 50 years, will begin hauling charter trains on the mainline rail network later this month. The newly-liveried Peppercorn class A1 engine will be a magnificent sight in its classic LNER Apple Green coach enamel, which was supplied by Craftmaster Paints of Stourbridge, in association with Manchester surface coatings manufacturer HMG Paints.
PRS0042 15/08/2006	Don't Panic! Says HMG Ahead Of New Vehicle Refinishing Legislation In the words of Warmington-on-Sea local defence volunteer Corporal Jones, 'Don't panic!' says independent paintmaker HMG Paints of Manchester, in response to next year's implementation of the new EU Products Directive 2004/42/CE, limiting the use of organic solvents in vehicle refinishing.
PRS0041 28/06/2006	HMG, One Name That Covers Everything, Even In Space Space tourism will be a reality in a matter of years, according to Steve Bennett, CEO of Starchaser Industries, the privately-held high technology company that specialises in the development, operation and commercialisation of space-related products and services.
PRS0040 01/06/2006	Manchester Firm Flies The Flag On Giant Steel Sculpture England flags, the red Cross of St George, are seemingly flying everywhere in the build-up to the World Cup. They are fluttering from BMWs and bangers, white vans, taxis, baby buggies, front windows, even specially erected flagpoles. One supermarket even had to withdraw its ban on delivery drivers displaying the flag on their cabs.
PRS0039 30/03/2006	Independent Paintmaker Showcases Compliant Coatings British independent paintmaker, HMG Paints of Manchester, is making its debut at this month's Commercial Vehicle Show, the single largest road transport event in the country. It provides a valuable opportunity to build the company's profile within the commercial transport OEM and vehicle refinishing sector and to showcase its latest VOC compliant paint systems, which meet the requirement of the EU Directive 2004/42/CE that comes into force next year.
PRS0038 01/02/2006	Craftmaster Paints For Canal Boats, Heritage Vehicles & Roundabouts Canal boat painting is a traditional and painstaking craft and the techniques used for decorative detail, such as roses and landscapes, date back to the Industrial Revolution and have been preserved by boat owners down the years.
PRS0037 01/01/2006	Managing Director To Chair BCF Vehicle Refinish Group John Falder, Managing Director of Manchester based HMG Paints, has been elected Chairman of the Vehicle Refinish Group of the British Coatings Federation, the trade association representing the £2.2 billion UK paint, powder coatings, all coverings and printing ink manufacturing industry.
PRS0036 01/12/2005	HMG Paints Has Ice Cream Vehicle Finishing Licked Thousands of ice cream van operators, known as 'mobilers' in the trade, play their evocative jingles on the streets of Britain, in the process selling over £100 million worth of ice cream each year. One company contributing more than most to this thriving industry is Whitby Specialist Vehicles of Crewe, the world's leading manufacturer of ice cream vans and trucks, which exports its products as far afield as America, Russia, Middle East and the Canary Islands.
PRS0035 01/12/2005	HMG Paints Backs Young Olympic Sailing Prospect HMG Paints, which produces a range of high performance marine coatings for topsides and hulls, is supporting a talented young sailor in his quest for Olympic glory, at the 2012 London games. Thirteen year old David Carpenter, who has progressed rapidly from the Topper dinghy class to Laser Olympic single handers, will carry the HMG Paints logo on his sail, as he competes at Junior, Youth and Open levels around Britain.
PRS0034 01/11/2005	Historic Wasp Helicopter Preserved With HMG Fleet Polyurethane The Royal Navy anti-submarine frigate HMS Plymouth saw action throughout the recent Falklands conflict and became the first HM ship to enter Port Stanley since the occupation. Its Wasp helicopter took part in the first direct action against Argentine forces.
PRS0033 26/10/2005	Serving The CV Market Perhaps the most difficult objects of all to paint are large flat ripple-free panels directly abutting flat sheets of glass, which are attached to a vehicle that does the mileage of a truck, but must have the appearance of a new BMW or Mercedes. This is the challenge that commercial and passenger vehicle makers have presented to paintmakers for several years.
PRS0032 01/09/2005	Successful Independent Paintmaker Celebrates 75th Anniversary This year, Manchester paint manufacturer HMG Paints, an independent family-owned firm competing successfully in a market comprising mainly multinationals, celebrates its 75th anniversary. Within three years of its formation, the entire company, lock, stock and paint barrel, was moved to new premises on a single horse and cart, including all four employees.
PRS0031 01/07/2005	HMG Paint Used In The Restoration Of Historic Gaskell House 84 Plymouth Grove, the former Manchester home of novelist Elizabeth Gaskell and judged second only in regional literary significance to the Bronte Parsonage, is in need of urgent structural repair and the subject of a major £500,000 fund-raising exercise, to augment hoped-for donations from the Heritage Lottery and other sources.
PRS0030 01/06/2005	HMG Gains Award And Five Nominations At CSR Conference HMG Paints, the independent surface coatings manufacturer based in Collyhurst, Manchester, has gained an award for Corporate Social Responsibility at the Better Working, Better Business Conference, held recently at Lancashire County Cricket Club.
PRS0029 01/05/2005	Paint Your Gate For A Better Environment Leading independent paintmaker, HMG Paints is proud of its Manchester manufacturing heritage and has invested substantially in on-site riverside improvement and tree planting programmes, to improve the surrounding environment. So it was delighted to become involved in a local 'clean up and paint your gate' initiative, staged recently in nearby Crumpsall, North Manchester.
PRS0028 01/03/2005	PVC94 Shines On Don Bur's Curtain Sided Trucks & Trailers The Don-Bur Group of Staffordshire is a market leader in the design, development and manufacture of truck trailers and rigid vehicle bodies, producing fleet-volume quantities for major hauliers, logistics companies, multiple retailers and brewers. Its patented buckle-less curtain system helped gain the accolade of Commercial Motor's Trailer of the Year and has revolutionised the way curtain-sided lorries look today.
PRS0027 01/02/2005	HMG Stresses Quality Distribution In Commercial Transport Refinishing Sector HMG Paints is looking to build additional distribution partnerships for its Commercial Transport (CT) coatings, especially in the South, South West and Wales, and North. At the same time, the company is publicly acclaiming three of its existing specialist CT distributors, Spray Centre of Sheffield, Rapidpaint of Birmingham and Coachfinish in Northern Ireland, for helping to develop this side of its surface coatings business, by providing high quality supply, service and local market knowledge.
PRS0026 26/11/2004	Online Knowledge Base For Paint Professionals What is the dew point? People with what common condition should avoid isocyanates? What is laitance? How long should you shake an aerosol paint can? What is the shelf life for most paints? Amplitude is a measure of what? How long should you leave a newly-painted swimming pool before filling?
PRS0025 01/11/2004	Self Healing Automotive Topcoat Actually Recovers From Scratches Frequent automatic brush washing can be detrimental to vehicle paintwork, the scratching and minor abrasions caused by rotating plastic brushes leading to considerable gloss reduction over time. Add road dust and grit into the watery mix and they literally take the shine off automotive topcoats.
PRS0024 01/08/2004	Modern Surface Coating Specified On Oxford Conservation Project HMG Paints' Acrythane A211 high performance polyurethane topcoat is normally associated with protecting cars, coaches and commercial vehicles, thanks to its superb long-term durability and outstanding weather resistance. Now, however, it is also performing conservation duties on a newly-restored historic building in Oxford.
PRS0023 05/07/2004	Superthane Anti Graffiti Paint Solves A Problem For Samaritans Although it dates back to ancient Roman times and beyond, graffiti is very much a modern malaise and it is especially distressing when it affects a charitable organisation like Samaritans, which is largely run by unpaid volunteers and has better ways of allocating precious funds. The Samaritans branch in Norwich, one of more than 200 across the UK, had a long-standing problem with graffiti, which meant continually repainting its entrance doors to obliterate the rude remarks and drawings.
PRS0022 06/02/2004	All Aboard Oxfordshire's Sensory Bus Oxfordshire Playbus' new single-decker 'Sensory Bus' is the only one of its kind in the country and likely to be the first of many, such has been the interest. It meets a need for disabled children, those with emotional and behavioural difficulties, and adults with Alzheimer's Disease to have access to a static sensory room, of the type pioneered by hospices and special needs schools.
PRS0021 01/12/2003	HMG Mentors Start Up Digital Communications Agency On the face of it, there is no apparent connection between a long-established paint manufacturing company, with almost 75 years' trading history, and a small digital communications agency, still in its first twelve months of business.
PRS0020 01/11/2003	Salford Wartime Bus Displays Its True Colours A Salford Corporation double-decker bus, which first saw service during World War II and was still in use for driver training in the 1970's, has been painstakingly restored with a little help from HMG Paints. Number 235, a 1939 AEC Regent Mk 1, is a living exhibit at Manchester's Museum of Transport, one of the largest collections of vintage buses and coaches in the UK, which has been fully refurbished over a decade and now repainted at the workshops of local bus operator, Stagecoach Manchester.
PRS0019 01/10/2003	HMG Is No Dope As Miss Piggy Flies Furthest In Flugtag It's true, HMG paint really does give you wings! Last year, HMG's high gloss Acrythane acrylic polyurethane helped the celebrated Starchaser rockets to fly faster and climb 300 metres higher. Now, HMG's cellulose dope and brightly coloured LMP water-based enamels have adorned a flying Miss Piggy that won the zany Red Bull Flugtag event at London's Hyde Park.
PRS0018 01/09/2003	New Rapidbuild Primer For Faster Drying And Easier Sanding Independent British paintmaker, HMG Paints of Manchester has introduced an advanced, high build primer, Rapidbuild, for commercial transport and automotive applications. Also suitable for marine and high quality equipment finishing, it can be used as the first choice primer / filler under all HMG 2-pack topcoat systems and other proprietary finishes.
PRS0017 01/06/2003	HMG's Stephen Falder Chairs Red Rose Forest Trust The Red Rose Forest Trust, the charitable organisation dedicated to protecting, promoting and creating woodland areas and green spaces in a large part of Greater Manchester, has appointed Stephen Falder as its new Chairman.
PRS0016 01/05/2003	HMG Paints Gains Major Business Environment Award Manchester-based independent paint manufacturer, HMG Paints, has gained a prestigious environmental accolade for its imaginative landscaping work on the banks of the River Irk, which flows through the company's head office site in Collyhurst.
PRS0015 01/03/2003	HMG Pioneers Local Paint Delivery Service In Manchester Flourishing independent UK paint manufacturer, HMG Paints is trailblazing a streamlined new local supply service in its home city of Manchester. Marketed under the HMG Select brand and equipped with distinctive black-liveried delivery vans, the no-nonsense service will offer next-day delivery and bespoke colour matching on smaller quantities of a popular range of coatings, primers and thinners, within a catchment area roughly bordered by the M60.
PRS0014 01/03/2003	Microporous Propodec Enhances Natural Beauty Of Teak Decking There is nothing quite like teak decking for natural beauty, life expectancy and anti-slip properties. This exotic wood graces many a treasured boat and it's said you can tell a lot about an owner by the way he maintains his teak. Some opt for the natural untreated look, with its white bleached-out appearance, some prefer regular applications of teak oil, while others favour the silken sheen of yacht varnish.
PRS0013 28/02/2003	HMG Director, Stephen Falder, Produces Report For Government's Better Regulation Task Force Stephen Falder, Sales & Marketing Director of Manchester surface coatings manufacturer, HMG Paints, is responsible for a high level report on the regulation of scientific research, newly published by the Government's Better Regulations Task Force.
PRS0012 01/02/2003	HMG Paints Helps Joseph Fine Tune His Fiddle! Professional violinist Joseph Crean is meticulous about instrument preparation, some friends would even say over the top. So when he changed the fiddle's conventional wooden tuning pegs for geared machine heads, to allow finer control and prevent too many broken strings, he wasn't entirely happy about the colour of the grey plastic grips.
PRS0011 01/09/2002	High Gloss HMG Paint Helps Rockets Fly Higher, Really! It may sound out of this world, but HMG's high gloss Acrythane paint really does make the renowned Starchaser rockets fly faster and attain higher altitudes. When the clear over base (COB) system, usually applied to superyachts and luxury vehicles, was sprayed onto Starchaser's supersonic research rockets, its tough, super smooth finish enabled them to climb 1000 ft higher than anticipated, reaching altitudes in excess of 5,960 metres (19,500ft).
PRS0010 01/06/2002	HMG Filmed As Model Of Corporate Social Responsibility Staff, local schoolchildren and environmentalists all featured in filming at the Collyhurst works of Manchester surface coatings producer HMG Paints, by the Department of Trade & Industry. The film project is part of a government initiative aimed at promoting socially responsible business practices amongst small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), under the Corporate Social Responsibility umbrella, and HMG was chosen by the Department as a model firm.
PRS0008 01/01/2002	A Ha'p'orth O' Tar? Canal boat builders, fitters and owners have long used bitumen-based paints for protecting and waterproofing steel hulls, the tradition dating back over 7,000 years to when tribes in Mesopotamia used naturally welling pitch for caulking their reed boats.
PRS0009 01/01/2002	H Marcel Guest Invests In South East Distributor Independent surface coatings group H Marcel Guest, which includes Manchester paint manufacturer HMG Paints in its international portfolio of companies, has acquired a controlling interest in its South East distributor. As a result, HMG Coatings (London), which is based in Rainham, Essex, has received a substantial injection of capital, enabling it to compete still more effectively in the region's high performance coatings sector.
PRS0007 01/11/2001	Yacht Owner Mark Reliant On Coma Berenice Marine Varnish Rhodes Reliants are classic sailing yachts, built in the 60's and 70's, which are now being lovingly restored and maintained by their owners and continue to sail the oceans of the world. The boats are distinguished by the extensive use of wood on the topside, including handsome teak decking, which has to be protected against the harmful rays of the sun and the aggressive elements of a marine environment.
PRS0006 01/11/2001	American Top Gun Tony Planes Faster On Slippy Bottom Can an antifoul paint actually make your boat run faster? Cigarette 38' Top Gun owner Tony Collins from Florida certainly believes so. After putting HMG's Slippy Bottom on the hull of his offshore raceboat, he found it planed at lower rpm and was measurably faster than with a conventional gel coat.
PRS0005 01/10/2001	New Product Guide And Can Livery From HMG Paints HMG Paints, 'one name that covers everything' according to its well-known slogan, has produced a colourful new Product Guide for trade users, buyers and specifiers. Listing almost a hundred standard topcoat finishes and primers, it provides guidelines for coating everything from machinery, vehicles and steelwork, to wood, plastics, concrete and marine surfaces.
PRS0004 01/09/2001	TV Paint Makers Team Up To Produce Energy Saving Solar Reflective Roof Coating Following a chance encounter on Channel 4's 'Equinox' television programme, two long established British paint makers, with a combined history of almost 200 years, are collaborating on the latest generation of solar reflective coatings, which will help cut building owners' energy costs and contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, in line with current Government initiatives.
PRS0003 02/04/2001	The Slippery Tale Of The Ocean Defender And The Tug HMG Paints' unique antifouling treatment, Slippy Bottom, is now proving successful around the world and recently demonstrated its outstanding performance and environmental credentials on the world's first marine wildlife rescue ship, owned by charity EarthKind.
PRS0002 01/03/2001	New Roadover For High Performance, Low Cost Road Repairs Surface coatings and adhesives specialist, HMG Paints of Manchester, has announced a new highways maintenance product, formulated for the filling and repair of minor potholes and pavements, the sealing of kerbstones and surface cracks, and covering existing road markings for subsequent relining.
PRS0001 01/02/2001	Flexithane Hoists The Sail And Lowers The Tie Due to the unusual, not to say unique nature of HMG's highly flexible Flexithane coating, it can be found in the most unusual places. Developed for such difficult applications as painting hot air balloons and truck side curtains, it was used recently to embellish the country's largest, loudest tie and is currently adorning the giant spinnaker of a competitor in the round-the-world BT Global Challenge yacht race.