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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, Australia’s 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 Keith’s 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 Australia’s 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 Australia’s 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 Australia’s 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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