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RAPTOR High Heat protective coating offers ground breaking durability and heat resistance, withstanding temperatures up to 1 000°C. Using advanced ceramic technology, it’s five times tougher than standard automotive paints, ensuring no blistering, cracking, or peeling. It’s perfect for exhaust manifolds, engine parts, and brake callipers, with more products coming soon.

This microprocessor-controlled welding inverter supports MIG/MAG, TIG, and STICK welding, offering excellent arc stability and no spatters. It features Hot Start, Arc Force, Antisticking, Lift Arc, and automatic wire feed control. With easy front-panel operation and digital displays for voltage and current, it’s ideal for body shop use.

The DeVilbiss top line spray gun delivers excellent clearcoat application with consistent, balanced spray patterns. Featuring updated geometry for flawless finishes, it’s available through various refinish stockists. Tunzi Automotive also offers replacement parts for guns that have been in use for up to 40 years.

The LEX 3 77/2.5 is a compact, lightweight compressed air eccentric sander ideal for sanding small areas, transitions, and hard-to-reach spots. With a 77mm pad and 700g weight, it offers minimal vibration, noise, and low air consumption, ensuring cost savings. The robust, low-maintenance motor guarantees durability and long service life.

Concept 23 provides an easy-to-use solution for restoring tyres to a like-new appearance. It can be applied with a trigger spray or brush, offering a lustrous, non-tacky finish. Fast-drying and non-aggressive, it ensures quick vehicle turnaround without marking surrounding paintwork or plastics on wheel trims.

The CARLA Neo-Flo HVLP spray gun is designed for professional painters, featuring a lightweight die-cast aluminium body and ergonomic design. It offers high paint transfer efficiency for top-quality results. Available in Chrome or Teflon coating, with a 600mm cup capacity and 1.3mm nozzle size, it ensures optimal performance and ease of use.

Sagola’s 4600 spray gun offers ultimate flexibility with specifically designed air caps: BASE for even coverage, HVLP for high-efficiency applications, CLEAR for ultra-fine atomisation, and CLEAR PRO for high-gloss, mirror-like finishes. Available in various models, the 4600 delivers unmatched versatility for diverse painting requirements, ensuring superior results.

Challenger hardeners are designed for various applications, from filler to clear coats, ensuring optimal performance with each layer. The CL6500 VOC Hardener is specifically used for rapid drying, working with the CL210 Air Dry Clear. This combination dries the clear coat within one to three hours, depending on temperature, and is ready to polish.

Celette SA’s Multifunction Spotter offers fast car body repairs with microprocessor control. It includes programmes for welding washers, rivets, wavy wires, and heating. The kit comes with a gun, hearth cable, hammer, 10-piece three-point washer kit, cylindrical head, and carbon electrode.

The Systainer extractor system from Festool includes a crevice nozzle, filter bag, main filter, and more. It offers maximum mobility with a cordless design, 36 V turbine, and 2 x 18 V batteries. Featuring Bluetooth® autostart and a remote control, it provides powerful, dust-free performance and seamless compatibility with tools and accessories.

Hurricane Equipment offers pre-owned and reconditioned Car-O-Liner benches and measuring systems for along with new W1000 and Crafter benches.

U-Pol’s new primer formulation excels in direct-to-metal applications, offering excellent opacity, high film builds, and easy sanding. It supports air dry, low bake, or IR curing systems and is ideal for both spot repairs and full panel applications with system hardeners.

Grinding Techniques has been crafting ANDOR abrasives since 1981, specializing in brake and clutch reconditioning. Our grinding media, including straight and tapered cup wheels, offer superior form holding, cool grinding, and high stock removal. Enhance your revenue and productivity with fewer passes. Partner with us to optimize performance today.

Concept 23 proudly announces an exclusive partnership with JTAPE, featuring smooth edge foam masking tape. This paint-absorbent tape ensures soft finishes and eliminates unwanted paint lines, streamlining the masking of door jambs. Boost efficiency and reduce costs in your body shop.

The recently developed Octoral C600 dries in 10 minutes. This is enhanced by using the clear, H61 Rapid Production Hardener Slow and can be used from small to large repair work and resprays. Efficiency is the name of the game with this duo.

Mix and Match are sole distributors for the Challenger range. The HS 240 clear provides a durable high gloss finish for a wide variety of application conditions.

U-Pol offer a brilliant cost-effective aerosol range for refinishing. They are ideal for small repair and to complete a successful touch-up.

The Drester Classic 2600 from Celette SA is a complete manual gun cleaner for efficient cleaning of spray guns and other tools. It is equipped with the unique Drester teflon diaphragm pump, specifically designed for use in gun cleaners. Automatic extraction protects the operator from hazardous fumes and improves the working environment.

The Sagola 4600 range provides a more even and uniform paint distribution, from top to bottom. This makes it ideal for difficult base colours such as metallics, silver, and pearls. It also minimises common paint defects like shadows, patch coats, and striping.

Luxor Paints have introduced a full range of Swiss Bond masking tapes which have excellent properties for automotive refinishing tasks. Swiss Bond has a high temperature resistance of 80ºC and can be removed quickly without any adhesive residue. It is available in 12mm, 18mm, 24mm and 35mm for refinishing applications.

The Mechanic Creeper/Chair 2-in-1 is a versatile and innovative tool designed to provide maximum comfort and convenience for automotive and mechanical work. The thick and comfortable cushion is designed to provide ample support and reduce fatigue, enabling you to work for extended periods without discomfort.

The Surf-ACE M’n’M Matting-Mousse is a triple action flatting paste that abrades, cleans, and degreases all at once. It is for the preparation of panels for painting and blending in of new paintwork when carrying out local repairs and for clear coat preparation.

Xcéla Lightfila Bodyfiller is a lightweight body filler formulated to reduce pinholes and sands easily. It has an extra smooth lightweight consistency. It is suitable for a variety of different substrates including aluminium, galvanised steel, stainless steel, base metal and many others.

Introducing the Maximum range from U-Pol. The clearcoats and hardeners have a great gloss finish. Maximum is a crystal-clear finish that is easy to apply with excellent flow and non-sag properties. It hardens rapidly to give a durable, UV resistant finish. Once cured, it can be easily polished.

The Speed Random Orbital Sander carries its own air regulator for speed modulation on different surfaces that require various detailing tasks. It is available with a full exhaust dust extraction pipe for a fast hook up to any body shop vacuum unit.

With DeBeer’s 8-347 Fast Surfacer, air-drying takes just 15-20 minutes, and you take away the need for energy intensive baking, helping your back pocket and the environment at the same time. The semi-gloss appearance makes it easy to see where is already sanded.

The Tork Craft 1500W Polisher from Vermont Sales is lightweight and has a constant speed between 600 – 3000 rpm, with a soft start. It also includes a 180mm backing pad and woollen bonnet with a D-handle.

This premium quality dry sanding disc delivers a perfect sanding performance with its soft foam backing pad feel. It is ideal for panel sanding and ultra-fine polishing operations. With a lockit speed Velcro attachment design it is sold by the 100-disc box holder. It is available in a number of popular disc sizes.

This compact small area repair professional spray gun comes with gravity feed design which will capably spray larger areas like a door repair. It delivers 70 to 100 cc per minute force with delicate atomisation and uses a miniscule amount of compressed air at 30 to 120 litres per minute.

U-Pol is renowned for advanced chemical technology. The Dolphin Speed Glaze is the latest addition to the premium body filler range. With proprietary snap cure technology, this advanced lightweight formula cures up to three times faster than standard glaze (6 to 8 minutes at 20 degrees), saving shops time and money.

Crafted with durability and functionality in mind, the Mechanic Creeper is constructed from high-quality materials to withstand the demands of heavy use. It features a sturdy frame and a low-profile design that allows easy access to the underside of vehicles or hard-to-reach areas.The creeper is equipped with smooth-rolling casters.

Superflex Waterpaper sheets play a pivotal role in automotive body repairs and body shop preparation. Designed to use with water as a lubricant, this offers several advantages compared to traditional dry sanding methods. Apart from significantly minimising dust, they are specifically manufactured to prevent clogging during application to ensure a consistent high-quality finish.

“Hi-Tek-Cloth” is the ultimate degreasing cloth for the automotive refinishing industry, giving you unparalleled degreasing performance. Each cloth is individually cut and folded in a resealable polybag to prevent contamination. It is an international grade degreasing cloth at local prices, giving you massive monthly cost saving when compared to all other imported degreasing.

In the fast-paced world of car refinishing, efficiency and cost-effectiveness are crucial. The Octoral PF345 Rapid Surfacer eliminates the need for energy-intensive baking. The 15-20 minute rapid air-dry reduces energy expenses, enhancing process times and making operations more environmentally conscious and productive.

Take a closer look at some of the latest products and innovations in the local market. If it makes life easier for the body shop, it’s featured here! From 2K system in an aerosol, newly designed and ranges of spray guns, blowing guns, cutting cremes, air-drying clearcoats and more.

D8177 is a fast-drying clearcoat with an optional quick Air Dry Cycle that can be applied in a single visit offering repairers both a significant amount of energy saving and process time improvement, without compromising on performance.

The special edition Sagola 3300 GTO Sherwin-Williams gun delivers high quality finishes for clearcoats and single stage products. It has a high atomisation level with a soft flow valve and smooth trigger to save on paint.

This new professional spray gun range from the Luxor Paints offers excellent value. The CARLA Pro Series is a top-quality spray gun has several built-in components to deliver a long life and holds up well under daily use.

The Concept 23 P-10 cutting creme has outstanding scratch removal from p1500 and higher with high gloss finish on most paint types – new and old. It is quick to clean up, and leaves a high clarity, deep gloss shine. It is now available in in 500g, 1kg, 3kg, 5kg.

The durability of RAPTOR is now in the convenience of an aerosol. The RAPTOR 2K System Aerosol offers a fast, easy way to apply RAPTOR without compromising performance, no spray equipment necessary. Ideal for spot repairs and small jobs. More than just a bedliner, RAPTOR is a highly durable

Trackbox from Tork Craft, is a 154-piece tool box for all your trackside needs. This kit is well made and so are the tools inside, which ensures a long life and is easy to transport.

P-12 Xtra Heavy Cut Compound from Concept 23 has unique Dynamic Response Abrasion (DRA™) technology incorporated for use on harder clearcoats HSS, UHS, ceramic and gelcoats. It is a heavy-duty cutting compound that delivers a depth of gloss and mirror-like finish.

Sprayworld’s Colorit H827 is a high-quality gravity feed gun that is easy to use with basecoat, clearcoat, lacquer and polyurethan topcoats.

Dolphin One Fille premium body filler, from U-Pol, is designed to improve workflow and produce high-quality surfaces ready for painting in the shortest possible time. One-Fill has micro-sphere technology so it’s smooth and pinhole free and you can prime and paint in 20 minutes.

Add the new Sagola high light intensity LED to the 4600 Xtreme spraygun to replicate sunlight inside the body shop. Perfect for spraying metallics, pearls and clearcoats. This piece of equipment doesn’t throw the spraygun off balance as it is perfect integrated.

This is a 2K polyurethane coating that provides surfaces with a highly durable protective coating. It’s available in an easy-to-use kit with an original Raptor application gun, providing, texture finish that performs in all climates, temperatures and environments. It’s available in black or can be tinted with a standard colour.

The CRT Mobile Plastic Welding Station package offers a total answer to the repair of all plastic car body hang-on plastic such as bumpers and wing mirrors. The computer includes regulation and temperature control for the plastic welding with specialist rods made from microfibres.

SmartAlign 3D wheel aligner from Hurricane Equipment. It’s easy-to-use, accurate, reliable, the database is free, and it has moveable cameras. The equipment works in real time on front and rear wheels simultaneously. There are two HD cameras combined with four targets.

OneBond PU Plastic Fast I is suitable for metals, coated metals and plastics (with the exception of polyethylene, polypropylene and Teflon). It repairs cracks, scratches and holes in automotive exterior plastic parts, including bumpers, spoilers, tail-gates and side mirrors and can be sanded and painted quickly with good impact resistance.

Glasurit now offer the P-U-53 performance primer filler is efficient with great performance quality. This primer filler is part of the ProClass range, for undercoat solutions for efficiency. It has good sanding properties, corrosion protection and weathering resistance. ProClass is focused on premium customers striving for pure efficiency

Crankshaft grinding requires an exceptionally fine surface finish post application and Grinding Techniques have the ability to manufacture wheels up to 1015mm in diameter.
Using the latest technology in high quality Aluminium Oxide, CBN grain and bonding systems, they are able to produce precision grinding media that minimises challenges experienced.

The Surf-ACE P-20 XTRA All in One compound is a water-based product that can easily remove paintwork imperfections, random deep scratches and oxidation in the shortest time possible. Surf-ACE compounds feature a world-first Dynamic Response Abrasive (DRA™) technology incorporating specially shaped micro-precision oxides.

The GAV Z3000 HVLP spray gun with 1.4mm nozzle is light, ergonomic, and balanced for improved operator performance. It is resistant to all types of paints and solvents since it is made with the best materials and technologies. It is a very professional spray gun and cuts down on pulverisation.

The Smart Repair Kit is a complete system that allows you to carry out smart repairs, thorough panel repairs and micro repairs. It includes two Mini Xtreme spray guns that are lightweight and comfortable to use. You can adjust the fan pattern easily to get excellent paint transfer efficiency.

A new generation of headlight bulbs, the Philips Ultinon Pro LED, offers superior performance and durability. The brighter light and cool-white-light look, are a perfect upgrade from halogen to LED technology.

SAGOLA presents its top technological expression in bodywork finishing spray guns. Smaller, lighter, with optimal weight distribution and more comfortable. This is Sagola’s SMART repair spray gun. With this model SAGOLA offers the widest range of solutions for all the new paints launched by the main paint brands for refinishing.

SAGOLA presents its top technological expression in bodywork finishing spray guns. Smaller, lighter, with optimal weight distribution and more comfortable. This is Sagola’s SMART repair spray gun. With this model SAGOLA offers the widest range of solutions for all the new paints launched by the main paint brands for refinishing.

OneBond’s body repair sealants excel in noise reduction and stress distribution and provide outstanding UV resistance for exterior applications. These sealants can also be sanded and painted once cured to protect metal surfaces from corrosion.

Flap discs are a popular alternative to resin bonded abrasive fibre discs and suitable for both rough grinding and finishing for various applications. Grinding Techniques locally produce them with the best in raw materials, and their range boasts different tiers to accommodate various applications.