The Wait Is Over
It has been a long wait, but Butler is going green. The PPG waterborne paint showed up at the school today.
A Cleaner Environment
Today PPG rep, Steve Johnson, and our jobber, Danny Hutchins stopped by with the AquaBase waterborne paint. Now we can start teaching students waterborne technology. It is not mandatory to be waterborne in Kansas yet as in a few states, but many shop owners are switching to waterborne paint for the green benefits. A cleaner environment is a huge benefit, however, there are many other benefits to using waterborne paint.
The First
Steve Johnson said that Butler was the 1st collision repair program in his territory to make the switch to waterborne. The school was encourage to switch to waterborne by their advisory board. Mitch Speck, the lead painter at Auto Craft in Wichita was a huge advocate of waterborne paint after making the switch himself. After using waterborne paint, Mitch stated that he would not want to use solvents again….regardless of the green benefit.
Solvent Paints Are Not Forever Gone
There are still many shops using solvent paints so we are going to continue training with solvents in addition to waterborne. The solvents will be taught using PPGs lower paint line called ShopLine.
More To Come
We will be posting more about our waterborne experience as we start to use the paint. Check back to learn more about waterborne paint.
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Jarod Todd says
November 4, 2010 at 1:06 pmI am excited to find out about this new age of paint. I want to learn more about how the system works and why it is considered ‘greener’. I have never heard of waterborne paint before and I am eagar to learn more.
bcraver says
November 4, 2010 at 1:11 pmCant wait until we get into painting. Looking forward to seeing what this waterborne is all about.
cmrfirebird says
November 4, 2010 at 1:23 pmi cant wait to try this. it will be nice to learn something new.
campuscolt65 says
November 4, 2010 at 5:21 pmI hope this turns out to be as good as they claim.
David Swanson says
November 4, 2010 at 5:26 pmim excited to see how it comes out
Joe Savoy says
November 4, 2010 at 5:32 pmI’m curious to see what procedures are involved with using waterborne
ryan says
November 4, 2010 at 5:38 pmI am looking forward to seeing if waterborne paint is as good as they say it is.
mbeckman1 says
November 4, 2010 at 5:39 pmi feel lucky to have this training while im in school. I feel this training will give us butler students an upper edge when appying for jobs out in the industry. I hope getting this new waterborn paint will help butler collision repair program’s reputation for future employers
Hugo Quintal says
November 30, 2010 at 4:53 pmFeedbacks from our customer that have switched to waterborne, are great! they where afraid to switch, some say that they should have switch before, and they will never go back to solvent base. and the cost to switch was not has high as expected.