Page 34 - Australasian Paint & Panel magazine May-June 2022

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PAINT&PANEL MAY / JUNE 2022
TOP: Oh the good old days of just working with a couple of grades of steel, never mind composites. LEFT: Paint & Panel Bodyshop Awards just had one winner in 1996 at launch, a great shop which won again in later years. Choice of repairer, shops closing, technologies which cause disruption
– ‘there’s nothing new under the sun’.
• Mild steel only – file finishing and hot shrinking was panel beater
• No spraybooths
• Pinstripes peak of popularity
MID 1980S
• Waterborne paints introduced
• Downdraft spraybooths introduced
• Infra-red heating introduced but not
much take up
• Dust extraction systems start to be
used
• 1985 official launch Spies Hecker in
Australia
• 1985 Acrylic lacquers still accounted for 96% of paint used
• 1987 Car Craft formed in WA
• 1988 Chrysler the first to offer airbag restrain systems as standard, re- verse parking sensor invented in Ita-
ly, solvent recyclers introduced.
1990S
• 1990 Adaptive cruise control invented • 1992 ANCAP established
• 1993 AS.NZS spraybooth standard
introduced.
• 1995 Electronic Stability Control introduced
• 1996 OBDII introduced
• 1996 Inaugural Paint & Panel Body-
shop Award (singular)
• 1997 NRMA sets up controversial Wol-
longong assessing centre, Spies Heck-
er introduces Colour Dialog box
• 1998 PPG buys Dulux
• 1999 AkzoNobels enters Australia with
Sikkens brand
• 1999 Radar based cruise control
2000-2010
• 2000 GST introduced
• 2001 Online digital imaging for repairs