Colour coding is commonly used in many industries, from plumbing to electronics, to ensure safety and efficiency. In the painting and coating industry, coloured tapes are essential for more than just visual appeal; they play a crucial role during the painting process, ensuring a flawless finish every time.
Coloured tapes are essential in automotive painting, ensuring precision and efficiency: each colour indicates different adhesive strength and temperature resistance.
Colour coding is commonly used in many industries, from plumbing to electronics, to ensure safety and efficiency. In the painting and coating industry, coloured tapes are essential for more than just visual appeal; they play a crucial role during the painting process, ensuring a flawless finish every time.
The purpose of coloured tapes
Coloured tapes play a crucial role in the automotive industry, especially in the painting and finishing stages of bodywork. These tapes serve various purposes, such as protecting specific areas from painting overspray, outlining design patterns, and ensuring sharp, clean lines. The different colours of tape are not merely for aesthetic differentiation but to fulfil specific functional roles. Professionals use various colours to quickly identify and apply the right tape for the job, which improves efficiency and accuracy: colour is a fast indicator of performance, technical features and application recommendations.
Why use different colours?
Each colour typically represents a different level of adhesive strength and temperature resistance, tailored to specific tasks in the automotive painting process. By using a colour-coded system, automotive professionals can easily navigate the complexities of bodywork and painting, guaranteeing that each section of the vehicle is treated with the appropriate level of care. Important to note: There is no industry-wide standard for these colours; each brand adopts its own colour scheme. So, it is essential to be familiar with a manufacturer's entire product range to identify the most suitable tapes for a specific application. Furthermore, it is essential to pay meticulous attention to the colours and product classifications within a given category to ensure that the tape has the performance characteristics and temperatures required for the intended application.
PPM coloured tapes for automotive
At PPM, we offer a comprehensive range of coloured tapes designed to meet the highest standards of quality and performance:
Orange power
3500 - Color Body Shop Masking Tape is a high-temperature tape that features a semi-crepe paper backing and a solvent-borne rubber resin adhesive. It is suitable for spray-painting operations with drying cycles up to 110°C and performs excellently when overlapping tape, masking paper, and masking film.
The Premium Red
3610 Premium AquaColor Body Shop Masking Tape
A premium high-temperature masking tape with a flexible crepe paper backing and a solvent-borne rubber resin adhesive. Designed for spray-painting operations in car repair applications, it withstands temperatures up to 110°C. Easy to remove, especially from curved mouldings, within 3 days of UV exposure.
Yellow: The Superior
3810 WR Superior Body Shop Masking Tape
Conceived for critical paint masking in the collision repair industry, this tape offers high adhesion and clean removal without leaving adhesive traces. The tacky rubber-based adhesive and flexible crepe-paper construction make it ideal for wet sanding and spray-painting operations at temperatures up to 120°C/248°F."
Waterproof Green
3710 Waterproof Colour Body Shop Masking Tape
This high-quality waterproof body shop masking tape has a crepe paper backing and a solvent-borne rubber resin adhesive. It provides excellent resistance to moisture, water, and solvent-based paints, withstanding spray painting and drying operations at temperatures up to 90°C for 60 minutes or 110°C for 30 minutes, effectively preventing paint seepage.
The accurate one: Light Orange
5040 Precision Line Body Shop Masking Tape
This automotive fine-line masking tape is perfect for professional applications that require drying cycles at high temperatures up to 120°C (60 min). It produces clean, razor-sharp lines and is suitable for small and curved car body parts. The tape can adhere to different surfaces such as aluminum, plastics, rubber, and glass, ensuring high adhesion without leaving any adhesive residue.
For automotive professionals and enthusiasts alike, the right tools make all the difference. Explore our comprehensive range of coloured tapes today and discover how PPM can help you achieve automotive excellence and elevate your bodywork to new heights.
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