CCI specializes in the production of color standards, selection tools and specialty products that accurately replicate highperformance automotive coatings. Our unique production and color matching technologies ensure that the complex makeup of high-performance paints and coatings are reproduced to the ultimate level of accuracy and precision. We use actual pigments, pearlescent and metallic flakes in our coating and spray line processes to achieve the same visual effects that you see when the color is applied on a vehicle. Whether OEM or Refinish, CCI is the top supplier of color tools for the performance coatings market.
Choosing a Car Means Choosing a Color
The Automotive OEM business has some of the world's most advanced technology when it comes to paint and coatings. Combining expertise in coatings and special effects techniques with analysis of industry trends to assist automakers around the world in enhancing the image and identity of their vehicle brands. Color tools for the OEM industry are critical.
Our color tools facilitate the decision-making process for a car-buyer, giving them confidence that the color they choose from our samples will be the color of the car they actually get. Color accuracy lets us contribute to the car owners' pride in their choice every time they get into their new car.
Automotive Refinish
Cars are defined by their color. It's the first thing - and sometimes, the only thing - customers notice. You need a reliable company to produce automotive samples that you can rely on. CCI's Automotive Refinish business represents many of the finest coatings available for the collision repair, commercial fleet and automotive specialty markets.
CCI automotive products use actual paint chips to display color options for the main body, accent, interior, stripe, under-the-hood and vehicle wheels. The need for color accuracy is undeniable for companies that produce high-performance coatings in the automotive industry.
Automotive: Evolution in Color
We are proud to say that a large component of our main business comes from the automotive color industry. Both OEM and Refinish companies use our color tools to help car buyers around the world decide on a new car purchase, or a new paint for a car they own. As personal car lovers, we are very proud to play a role in the automotive color market.
Over the past decade, there have been significant changes to both the automotive industry. There have also been many many changes in the Automotive industry and understandably, there have also been great changes in the materials used, process development, greener efforts, and methods of paint application.
Hand spraying was previously used and has evolved into 'robotic spraying'. Many of these factors have made it difficult to replicate an exact match for an automotive paint, but CCI has strategically changed with its customers to continue serving the automotive industry. Products manufactured for automotive color sampling highlight the unrivaled quality and precision that CCI is known for. We are proud that our customers in both Automotive OEM and Refinish rely on CCI for their integral color needs with confidence.
