new partnership with property developers, Taylor Fay Homes, alongside the imminent launch of HMG’s new decorative
coatings collection.
Manchester City Councils’ preferred
partner property developers, Taylor Fay
Homes have enlisted the help of local
paint manufacturers HMG Paints, to
provide coatings and technical advice
throughout the project of renovating 12
homes in Harpurhey. “From wall to fence
coatings, HMG had all the products we
were looking for, backed up with a high
quality specification for our team, there
were no queries we had unanswered!”
said Sally Lister Managing Director, of
Taylor Fay Homes. “The homes were
in very bad condition when we first got
them, but HMG’s knowledge in coating
different surfaces put us at ease and the
finished homes couldn’t look any better,
it’s amazing what a lick of paint can do!”
HMG provided Taylor Fay with a
plethora of their new decorative coatings collection from interior emulsions to
masonry paint, to assist with the hands
on community project. After recently appointing decorative sales manager Steve
Pellatt, HMG have utilised extensive
coatings knowledge alongside Steve’s 20
years’ experience specifying in the decorative coatings sector, to specify a bespoke
range of products fit for purpose. “It has
been great to work with such wonderful
property developers, and see just how
well our paint can perform in these beautifully designed homes” said Pellatt.
Taylor Fay Homes’ appointed decorator Mark Williams stated “After 29
years of being a decorator this job was
my first experience using HMG products
and moving forward I will definitely be
using them again. The overall quality of
the paint was of a high standard and the
color matching was great. Most of all the
prices were highly competitive. I recently
used the Macmillan range and think this
is a great cause for a great charity as a
proportion of each tin sold is donated to
Macmillan Cancer Support.”
Hempel Gives Notice of
Price Increases
With the raw material cost increases of
2016 set to continue into 2017, leading
coatings manufacturer Hempel has an-
nounced price increases of certain products.
The cost of many raw materials
used in the manufacturing of coatings
has increased over the past year. Since
January 2016, for example, the cost of
copper has risen by 34 per cent and the
cost of zinc has gone up by 78 per cent
(source: London Metals Exchange and
ICIS Pricing). Titanium dioxide,
another key raw material, has
also shown significant increases
in cost.
Raw materials constitute a major part
of the cost of manufacturing coatings
for the protective, marine and decorative industries – and, while Hempel does
everything possible to mitigate these
