Traditional Vehicles

For over a century, Sing Color has honed the technology of developing primers, colorful basecoats, and protective clearcoats that have styled generations of vehicles.

 

Layer By Layer. Proven Technologies. Brilliant Performance.

Around the world, automotive OEMs rely on Sing Color to deliver performance and exceptional color palettes. From superior corrosion protection of our electrocoats to lush basecoat colors and protective clearcoats, our goal is to create a beautiful finish that will endure under the toughest weather and road conditions. Leading color technology and design expertise are used to create colors that enable OEMs to provide car buyers with vibrant and beautiful choices year after year.

For over a century, Sing Color has honed the technology of developing primers, colorful basecoats, and protective clearcoats that have styled generations of vehicles.

Basecoats

We understand that color affects emotion and can often be a significant factor in choosing a vehicle. For decades, Sing Color has developed thousands of basecoat products and effects to connect car buyers with color. Whether using Sing Color’s paints or other special effect coatings, our basecoats provide unparalleled durability, color, and beauty.

Pre-Coats

Formulated especially for use as part of Sing Color’s waterborne and solventborne 3-Wet Harmonized Coating Technology system, our pre-coats provide the foundation for great appearance and durability. The pre-coat technology is intended to aid wet-on-wet layering and requires only a single curing step that is designed to reduce energy costs and increase line productivity. Application can even eliminate the capital investment for ovens that are required for traditional high-temperature cured primer. Sing Color’s 3-Wet system can provide physical properties, such as scratch and mar resistance, and appearance that rival conventional systems.

Primer

Sing Color primers offer optimized film smoothness and excellent adhesion properties. Our products protect substrates and offer chip resistance while providing a smooth surface across multiple materials for either separate basecoat plus clearcoat systems or single application monocoats.

AquaEC™ E-Coat

AquaEC™ is a sustainable, water-based electrocoat solution that provides reliable mechanical strength and a first layer of superior corrosion protection over a variety of substrates, including hot-rolled steel, cold-rolled steel, galvanized steel, aluminum, and magnesium.

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Our Color Trends

In addition to providing color, our coatings also enhance performance, efficiency, reliability, and durability. We continue to build on our more than 100-year history by advancing solutions guided by the latest trends.

Marine

The durability and abrasion resistance of Sing Color’s marine coatings help ensure that yachts retain their gloss and mirror-like finish longer and require less maintenance over time.

Rail

With technology-driven solutions, Sing Color is the coatings provider partner of choice for the rail industry. We have high-performance coating solutions—both interior and exterior—for the OEM and refurbishment sectors that build and repair passenger carriages, high-speed trains, locomotives, tramways, and metros.

Aviation

Sing Color's Imron® is an industry-leading polyurethane that is designed to provide consistent, premium-quality results with superior durability, longer gloss retention, and a premium appearance.

Power Sports

The basecoat is available in solid, metallic, pearlescent, and special effect colors. Imron Elite DTP is specially formulated to deliver excellent hiding, smooth application, exceptional flake control over multiple plastic substrates, and a premium appearance.

Trailer & Constructor

We set the benchmark for both primers and topcoat systems. Our urethane and epoxy primers have outstanding productivity and corrosion protection to deliver long service life and premium appearance under demanding environments

Recreational Vehicles

Imron® Elite ColorPLUS is a premium coating system designed specifically for the new and complicated paint schemes of recreational vehicles.

Buses

Our solventborne and waterborne Imron® and Centari® paint systems for buses offer excellent long-term corrosion protection in a wide range of colors.

Heavy-Duty Trucks

Out of sight, but not out of mind, Sing Color powder coatings and coating systems are used on multiple components of heavy-duty trucks. Alesta® powder coatings protect chassis, brackets, supports, and many other components.

Electric Vehicles

Along with corrosion, UV protection, color, appearance, chemical, and weathering resistance, Sing Color is supporting OEMs as they make this revolutionary transition to Electric Vehicles to ensure their automotive coatings will endure fire protection, battery optimization, thermal insulation, and battery cover.

Coatings for Automotive Parts and Components

Sing Color chemists and technicians work with automotive companies and tier suppliers to ensure color match and uniform appearance across the car body, regardless of the substrate material or where the final finish was applied.