PRS0051
01/06/2010
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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.
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PRS0050
01/06/2010
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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.
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PRS0049
25/05/2010
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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.
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PRS0048
05/02/2010
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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.
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PRS0047
08/01/2010
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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.
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PRS0046
22/09/2009
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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.
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PRS0045
03/09/2009
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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.
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PRS0044
29/07/2009
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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.
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PRS0043
21/04/2009
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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.
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PRS0042
15/08/2006
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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.
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PRS0041
28/06/2006
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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.
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PRS0040
01/06/2006
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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.
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PRS0039
30/03/2006
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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.
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PRS0038
01/02/2006
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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.
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PRS0037
01/01/2006
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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.
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PRS0036
01/12/2005
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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.
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PRS0035
01/12/2005
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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.
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PRS0034
01/11/2005
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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.
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PRS0033
26/10/2005
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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.
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PRS0032
01/09/2005
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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.
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PRS0031
01/07/2005
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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.
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PRS0030
01/06/2005
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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.
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PRS0029
01/05/2005
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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.
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PRS0028
01/03/2005
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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.
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PRS0027
01/02/2005
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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.
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PRS0026
26/11/2004
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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?
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PRS0025
01/11/2004
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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.
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PRS0024
01/08/2004
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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.
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PRS0023
05/07/2004
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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.
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PRS0022
06/02/2004
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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.
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PRS0021
01/12/2003
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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.
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PRS0020
01/11/2003
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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.
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PRS0019
01/10/2003
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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.
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PRS0018
01/09/2003
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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.
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PRS0017
01/06/2003
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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.
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PRS0016
01/05/2003
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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.
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PRS0015
01/03/2003
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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.
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PRS0014
01/03/2003
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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.
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PRS0013
28/02/2003
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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.
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PRS0012
01/02/2003
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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.
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PRS0011
01/09/2002
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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).
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PRS0010
01/06/2002
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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.
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PRS0008
01/01/2002
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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.
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PRS0009
01/01/2002
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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.
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PRS0007
01/11/2001
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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.
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PRS0006
01/11/2001
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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.
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PRS0005
01/10/2001
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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.
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PRS0004
01/09/2001
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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.
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PRS0003
02/04/2001
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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.
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PRS0002
01/03/2001
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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.
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PRS0001
01/02/2001
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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.
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