MIPA PUR-HS COVERS CITY SIGHTSEEING SA
February 1, 2026

MIPA PUR-HS COVERS CITY SIGHTSEEING SA

Another customer switches to MIPA PUR-HS: City Sightseeing SA joins a growing community of users benefitting from the leading pure 2K commercial system.

City Sightseeing SA, started in Cape Town in 2002. Their iconic double decker red buses are seen all over the Mother City, allowing locals and tourists alike, to experience the best that Cape Town, and the surrounds, has to offer. Cruising the canals and the harbour have been added to their repertoire with an additional fleet of small boats, one of which is the first full electric boat in Cape Town. The company have their own body shop complete with commercial spraybooth, to keep their vehicles and boats always looking their best.

City Sightseeing have recently changed their refinish coatings system to MIPA PUR-HS, Germany’s most advanced pure 2K commercial paint system.

MIPA’s solution is easy-to-use and provides higher coverage. Quicker drying times speed up the process and help with productivity in the shop.

Superior gloss retention ensures the vehicle or boat, maintains a perpetually striking and fresh appearance.

MIPA also provide state-of-the-art colour matching technology and an extensive commercial vehicle colour database. Primer and filler are the base of a successful top coating. The MIPA product range for commercial vehicles offers solutions for every substrate and every requirement. This system allows economical wet-in-wet coating structures as well as high gloss finishes with intermediate sanding.

City Sightseeing SA is saving significantly with PUR-HS, achieving 50% better coverage on all their red buses and reducing overall application time.

“The efficiency gained in time and on using less product, makes the. MIPA PUR-HS system an obvious choice. This system combines economic and cost saving application with first-class look and finish”

Warren Melville, head of Kapatal team in Cape Town.