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Uticolor Australia began after Keith Smith purchased the trading
rights for Australia from Uticolor Japan. The business in Australia
has always been Australian owned and operated and originally dealt
in vinyl welding and recolouring only. The name is derived from
Utility Color Laboratories in California USA.
Keith had worked in the fibreglass manufacturing industry since
the 1950s when he and a partner created, amongst other things, Australias
first fibreglass boats, tanks and tractor cabins. Armed with the
new Uticolor process, Keith began trade in vinyl welding and
repairs, and because of the huge amounts of vinyl used in
those days, trade soon boomed.
Before long there were Uticolor repairers working mobile in most
capital cities. Those early repairers soon requested that a regulatory
means be put in place to secure trade in their areas and, rather
than follow the lead of Japan and America with their sales-orientated
trading, Keith decided to adopt the then new concept of franchising.
Within a few years Uticolor in both Japan and USA had ceased to
trade.
Since then Uticolor Australia has developed and made its own products
in Australia and the franchise has continued to grow in size and
diversity by attending to changes in the market as they occurred.
The seventies bought an increase in the use of plastics in motor
vehicles and accordingly Uticolor created materials and repair techniques
to bond, weld and finish these plastics. In the eighties Uticolor
developed leather repair materials and processes to service the
reintroduction of leather upholstery in both motor vehicles and
domestic furniture. By this time Keiths son Lindsay took on
a managerial role with the company after working as a Uticolor sub-contractor
and studying plastics.
More recently, in league with worldwide environmental concerns,
Uticolor has formulated a range of highly specialised water-based
coatings that allow our technicians to maintain the exacting standard
of workmanship required to regularly service the furnishing needs
of Australias pivotal civic buildings.
Today, with around 65 main franchises and 30 or so sub-franchises,
the Uticolor system supplies a truly comprehensive repair service
to our original base customers in the motor vehicle and furniture
trades as well as supplying repairs, fabrication and installation
services to many diverse industries where plastics are used.
As Australias premier mobile plastic and vinyl repair service
we take pride in our standard of work, the association and interaction
between our franchisees, and our achievements over the past thirty
years of trade. In fact our first franchisee is still working with
us.
Uticolor is Australias largest mobile
vinyl, plastic and leather repair service, performing most repairs
on site. We can repair and cosmetically enhance almost all degraded
and damaged domestic/vehicle interior and exterior materials,
upholstery, trim, carpets, seats, dashboards, steering wheels,
bumper bars and other components that are torn, scratched, scuffed
or faded. Uticolor services include plastic welding, repairs,
recolouring and resurfacing, vinyl welding, re-colouring and
conditioning, leather repair and re-finishing, auto carpet,
cloth and velour colour rejuvenation and repairs, redying, rebonding and re-finishing, and odour
elimination treatments. Uticolor has around 100 mobile repair
technicians / franchises Australia-wide. We repair cars,
boats, and farm and industrial equipment. We service a wide
range of clientele including the automotive trades, the furniture
industry, the marine and shipping industry and a diverse range
of industrial and agricultural clients. [Note: Uticolor is sometimes
incorrectly referred to as Uticolour, Unicolor or Unicolour.] |
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