1 October 2018
Sherwin-Williams New Colour Programme Enables Users to Use More Colours More Ways
Aerospace Coatings Selectors add Additional 33% Exterior and 293% Interior Colours
ANDOVER, KS– October 2018- Sherwin-Williams Aerospace is introducing its most comprehensive colour selection programme to design specifiers and paint shops in the aviation marketplace. The new Exterior and Interior Colour Selector books and fan deck sets provide more colours – especially effect options, selectors with larger chip sizes (some as much as 50 percent), and improved chip quality with higher gloss.
The new colour system delivers more colour choices in a simplified format with solid, metallic and mica colours all together. The exterior selector tools feature 333 colours, and the interior version features 107 – almost three times more than the previous interior selector. Each of the exterior topcoat colours are available as a single stage (monocoat) in one of several Sherwin-William systems, or as a basecoat-clearcoat within the popular SKYscapes® systems. The interior selector also shows options for solid colours, effects and textures.
Our new colour selection system was designed to provide the most impact and assistance for the leading aircraft OEM and MRO aircraft paint applicators and scheme designers. We now offer one of the industry’s most extensive, focused coatings selections for the plane exterior and aircraft cabin. The new colour selection tools not only offer some of our popular, legacy colours, but we also included exciting new colours and effects to the collection.
The new Aerospace Colour Fan Deck Sets feature large samples of solid and effect selections. This provides users the opportunity to view colours in large format and to easily compare colours side by side. Aircraft scheme designers can now select from an extensive palette featuring exciting exterior hues like Midnight Silk, Electric Indigo, Blue Fantasy, Blue Tempest, Purple Royalty, Blazing Red, Angelic Azure, Black Radiance, Calypso Orange, Tangerine Punch, Casino Gold, Silver Trinket, Dark Treasure Gold, Cayman Island Green, Dark Magnesium, Trinity Blue, Radical Red and Alabaster White Pearl. For the aircraft cabin, a subtler collection of colours are featured such as Toasted Almond, Star Dust, Gourmet Cocoa, Autumn Dawn, Moonlit Seafoam, Frozen Harbour, Coastal Breeze, Diamond Glow and Sunset Blush. The team at Sherwin-Williams conducted a meticulous evaluation process to develop a resource capable of meeting the aspirations of designers. By reviewing each individual colour and examining which colours were most frequently used in the marketplace, the team established a strong initial field of potential colours. Several OEM and MRO designers were called upon to offer opinions and rank individual colours.
“We examined evolving colour trends, compared colour ranges within the existing and proposed palettes, and considered different effects before taking our panels through review sessions where colours were thoroughly compared and ranked until we came up with what we feel is amongst the finest colour collections within the industry”, says Voisin.
The new exterior topcoat selector and fan deck set features opaques, micas and metallics for all Sherwin-Williams topcoat systems including Jet Glo®, Jet Glo Express™, SKYscapes®, SKYscapes® GA, Acry Glo® and Acry Glo® HS.
The new interior topcoat selector and fan deck set also features the latest opaques, effects and textures for all Sherwin-Williams cabin coating systems including JetFlex®, JetFlex® WR, JetFlex® ELITE, Polane® L and new Jet Suede™ soft feel.
”Ultimately, we felt it was more important to have the right colour selection than it was to have the widest colour selection”, says Voisin. “We selected colours that look great for aircraft. The customer now has many top-quality choices to select from, without getting overwhelmed by too many options.”
The new colour tools will be on display for the first time at the 2018 NBAA’s Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) event in Orlando, FL, 16-18 October 2018 at booth #4863.
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