Clearview National July 2017 - Issue 188 | Page 42

PROUD SPONSOR OF DOORS & WINDOWS
DOORS&WINDOWS
GROWING THE USE OF COATINGS IN
THE PVCu FENESTRATION MARKET
» » PROKOLOR® IS A
specialty coatings solutions
provider offering professional
colour matching, coatings supply
and expert related services to
the UK PVCu fenestration and
building products industry.
Founders, Mike Blowers and
Graham White, have over 35
years’ combined experience within
industrial coatings businesses,
explain to Clearview their motives
for creating the business…
“We formed ProKolor®
because we saw the inefficiencies
inherent with the traditional
foil decoration process and
the lost sales opportunity of
fabricators or installers offering
only a limited range of standard
colours. We knew there must be
a better solution based on the
right coatings technology and we
were fortunate to find it, when
we discovered Zobel’s excellent
water-based Zowo-Plast® coatings
product range and its unmatched
track-record and outstanding
performance.
“Our market research had
identified a strong growth in
demand for coloured PVCu
windows, which is creating a
lot of pressure in the industry
as current supply chain designs
struggle to effectively respond.
Demand for coloured (non-white)
windows is estimated to have
been between 30% and 40% of
all sales in the UK in 2016 and
is set to continue to grow to the
levels seen in the rest of Northern
Europe of 60 - 80% in coming
years.”
“In our view” says White,
“ProKolor® coatings offer a
superior decorating solution
versus standard foils in all
respects. In addition to a limitless
choice of colour, converting
to ProKolor® coatings also
results in moving to a make-
to-order production model,
which will deliver productivity
gains, improved lead-times and
substantial inventory savings
versus the unresponsive made-
from-stock model inherent with
using foils.”
Operating as exclusive
distributors of Zobel Chemie
GmbH in the UK, ProKolor®
brings Zobel’s market-leading and
ecologically sustainable Zowo-
Plast® product range to the UK
for the first time, as the ProKolor®
ZP range. Zowo-Plast® has a
track record of application in over
40 countries around the world,
and is fully certified to meet the
world’s toughest performance
standard for PVCu coatings;
AAMA 615-05. Manufactured
in Germany since 2005, Zowo-
Plast® is available in a variety of
textures and finishes, and in a
limitless range of colours, and is
guaranteed to deliver exceptional
performance in the harshest of
conditions.
www.ProKolor.co.uk
ProKolor ® ZP; The Ultimate PVCu Coating System
Permanent
Bond
Colour
Confidence
Guaranteed
Performance
Transforms in
One Coat
www.ProKolor.co.uk
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