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Uticolor Australia has always been Australian owned and operated, beginning way back in 1972 when Keith Smith purchased the Australian trading rights and technology from Uticolor Japan. The quirky but somehow memorable name was derived from its originators the Utility Color Laboratories in California USA, and the business in those days involved solely vinyl welding and recolouring.

Before Uticolor, Keith was already a pioneer in plastics from as early as the 1950s when he and a business partner created many innovative things for that time such as Australia’s first fibreglass boats, tanks and tractor cabins while trading as The Filam Manufacturing Company in Fyansford Geelong.

Armed with the new Uticolor process, Keith began trade in “vinyl welding and repairs”, and because of the huge amounts of vinyl used in many inappropriate ways in those days, trade soon boomed.

Before long there were Uticolor mobile service repairers working in most capital cities and it was those early repairers who requested that a regulatory means be put in place to secure their own trading areas and thereby avoid competition between themselves. Rather than follow the lead of Uticolor Japan and America with their purely sales driven trading, Keith decided to adopt the then new concept of franchising and thus Uticolor became one of Australia’s first mobile service franchise systems.

Within a few years Uticolor in both Japan and USA had all but ceased to trade and the newly independent Uticolor Australia grew in size and diversity by developing and manufacturing much of its own products here in Australia and adapting to changes in the market as they occurred.

The seventies brought 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 resurgence 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 its many franchises and sub-franchises, the Uticolor system supplies a truly comprehensive repair service to the motor vehicle and furniture trades as well as supplying repairs, fabrication and installation services to many diverse industries where plastics are used.

Sadly our founder Keith Smith passed away in September of 2009, however he has left behind him Australia’s premier mobile plastic and vinyl repair service whose franchisees take pride in their standard of work, the association and interaction between franchisees, and our combined achievements over the past thirty-eight years of trade.  In fact we are proud to say that 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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