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Aerosol & Small Packaging Price List Online

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23/11/2011

Aerosol & Small Packaging Price List Online

Customised Price Lists for HMG Paints' Aerosols & Small Packaging portfolio are now available to access online.
HMG Paints Recruit Former DuPont Commercial Manager

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18/10/2011

HMG Paints Recruit Former DuPont Commercial Manager

HMG Paints Ltd, the UK’s, largest independent paints manufacturer, have recently recruited former DuPont UK Commercial Manager, Andy Moores, as a coatings consultant and as their representative for the South of England and South Wales.
HMG Paints Love MCR

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25/08/2011

HMG Paints Love MCR

HMG Paints is showing its love for Manchester by placing the now iconic I Love MCR Posters on its own iconic Dreadnowt.
Sign Up To Receive Your Free 2012 HMG Paints Calendar

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17/08/2011

Sign Up To Receive Your Free 2012 HMG Paints Calendar

News article for Sign Up To Receive Your Free 2012 HMG Paints Calendar
Half Price Paint for those affected by Manchester Riots

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10/08/2011

Half Price Paint for those affected by Manchester Riots

HMG Paints are offering HALF PRICE paint to those affected directly by last nights riots in the town centre. Please get in touch if you know of anyone need.
HMG Paints & Brian Falder 80th Birthday BBQ

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07/06/2011

HMG Paints & Brian Falder 80th Birthday BBQ

On 27th May HMG staff past and present came together to jointly celebrate HMG's 80th Birthday and HMG Paints Chairman Brian Falders 80th Birthday.
HMG Paints + Sport = Winning Partnership

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07/06/2011

HMG Paints + Sport = Winning Partnership

HMG Paints has a long history of supplying coatings to sporting teams and venues, you can see who and what we have supplied over our long history.
3D Paint

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31/03/2011

3D Paint

HMG Paints is taking paint to a new dimension, literally. With the launch of its 3D range of coatings. The new revolutionary 3D Coatings and colours were launced on April 1st 2011
HMG support Get Britain Trading

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28/02/2011

HMG support Get Britain Trading

HMG Paints is pledging its support for the Get Britain Trading campaign launched by the Forum of Private Business.
Students Refurbish Team GBs Bobsleigh

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06/12/2010

Students Refurbish Team GBs Bobsleigh

With a kind donation from HMG Paints, Level 2 Paint and Body Refinishing students at the Manchester College Preston Street Campus were given the exciting opportunity of working on the Great Britain (GB) bobsleigh before it was used at the Winter Olympics qualifying stages in Austria last month.
HMG Movember Challenge

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03/11/2010

HMG Movember Challenge

HMG staff are entering the Movember challenge: Movember is about raising funds and awareness for men's health, specifically prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. One man dies every hour from the disease in the UK.
Sign Up To Receive Your Free Calendar

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07/09/2010

Sign Up To Receive Your Free Calendar

Sign up for your free HMG Calendar
HMG Supporting Unrealised Potential at the Cornerhouse

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21/06/2010

HMG Supporting Unrealised Potential at the Cornerhouse

HMG Paints are pleased to be supporting the Unrealised Potential exhibition. The exhibition is taking place at the Cornerhouse, Manchester's international centre for contemporary visual arts and film. The Free Exhibition starts on Saturday 17th July and runs until Sunday 12th September.
HMG Fly The Flag

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21/05/2010

HMG Fly The Flag

HMG Paints are once again showing their support for the England team at the World Cup in South Africe. Our 25ft 'Dreadnowt' is now sporting its world cup kit in the form of a St Georges Cross, however we also want your photos to see how you are getting behing Fabio and the Three Lions
Great Manchester Run 2010 Post Race

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19/05/2010

Great Manchester Run 2010 Post Race

HMG Paints entered its biggest team ever in the BUPA Great Manchester Run, the UK’s largest 10k run with 36,000 participants. The team of 38 staff, family and friends includes 17 first timers, 15 competing for the third successive time, brothers and sisters, and marital partners. This year running for Breakthrough Breast Cancer and The Prostate Cancer Charity, see how we all got on.
Team HMG Supports Two Cancer Charities

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13/05/2010

Team HMG Supports Two Cancer Charities

HMG Paints is entering its biggest team ever in the BUPA Great Manchester Run, the UK’s largest 10k run with an expected 33,000 participants. The team of 44 staff, family and friends includes 17 first timers, 15 competing for the third successive time, brothers and sisters, and marital partners. This year running for Breakthrough Breast Cancer and The Prostate Cancer Charity
Tartan Paint

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01/04/2010

Tartan Paint

HMG Paints of Manchester, has introduced a Tartan paint which offers users a virtually unlimited palette for all order sizes, across an extensive range of high performance HMG base coatings in order to create custom tartan prints. Packed into 2.5 litre cans ready for use , HMG Tartan paint comprises around twenty solid tinters, five aluminium tinters for metallic finishes, and five unique reduced-strength colourants, for more accurate tinting of pale and pastel shades. The Shades use Nano-Technology to remember their position in a process similar to memory foam metals.
Restored Manchester Built Model A Ford Reflects Company Heritage

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10/02/2009

Restored Manchester Built Model A Ford Reflects Company Heritage

Launched in America during December 1927, on the back of one of the biggest advertising campaigns the world had ever seen, the Ford Model A was an outstanding automotive success, with more than five million built by the time production ceased.
HMG Analyses Paintwork For Classic Car Transporter Restoration

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28/07/2008

HMG Analyses Paintwork For Classic Car Transporter Restoration

A colour library containing over 250,000 shades, original paint formulations that extend back over 75 years and archives that cover virtually every factory finish in the history of automotive manufacturing in this country, mean that Manchester-based HMG Paints represents an invaluable resource for classic vehicle restorers and refinishers.
Specialist Contract Packaging Service An Ongoing Success

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24/06/2008

Specialist Contract Packaging Service An Ongoing Success

Contract packaging and toll manufacturing facilities are widely used by brand owners, private label companies and others, when producing short runs for market testing, trialling an unfamiliar packaging format, where there is no in-house equipment or expertise for a particular job, there is a short- or longer-term need for extra production capacity or even where there is a requirement to outsource the entire manufacturing function.
HMG Delivers First Class Technical Solution For Royal Mail Trailers

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13/06/2008

HMG Delivers First Class Technical Solution For Royal Mail Trailers

Innovative British paintmaker, HMG Paints of Manchester, has developed a first-class solar reflective coating for Royal Mail double-deck trailers, being built by commercial vehicle bodywork specialist, The Cartwright Group of Altrincham. Based on a specially modified version of HMG's A211 clear acrylic polyurethane paint, it incorporates special interference pigments, which permit a high transmission of natural light, while limiting levels of solar rdiation.
Belfast SOS Bus Liveried With HMG's Acrythane Paint

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04/04/2008

Belfast SOS Bus Liveried With HMG's Acrythane Paint

HMG Paints' high performance Acrythane commercial vehicle finish is adorning a 60ft long, bright yellow, bendy bus that is now offering medical care and general assistance for those enjoying the vibrant night life in Belfast. Manned by volunteers and paramedics, the SOS Bus sits in the city centre every Friday and Saturday night, providing a refuge for anyone in distress or at risk due to drugs and alcohol.
He Loves Us, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!  He Loves Us, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!

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04/03/2008

He Loves Us, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah! He Loves Us, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!

Ted the Sprayer favours HMG's cellulose paint for rock stars' guitars. 'One name that covers everything' is the long-standing slogan of Manchester paintmaker HMG, reflecting the fact that over almost 80 years its high performance coatings and adhesives have been applied to virtually every kind of structure, vehicle, building, boat, furniture, painted product, even museum artefact.
HMG's Magic Line Marking Paint 'Hysol' Passes The Gridiron Test

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11/10/2007

HMG's Magic Line Marking Paint 'Hysol' Passes The Gridiron Test

Hosting multiple playing codes on a single sports ground makes efficient use of facilities, but problems can arise over the different pitch markings. That is especially true of American Football, with its characteristic yard lines and hash marks that give rise to the name 'gridiron', and it potentially hampered BAFL (British American Football League) efforts to get more of its top teams into stadiums, allowing more spectators to follow the sport in comfort.
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Paint! HMG Has The Solution

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17/08/2007

Raindrops Keep Falling On My Paint! HMG Has The Solution

Raincoat was initially conceived to meet a specific customer requirement for Ultra Secure Products, a division of GB Industries Ltd, the leading manufacturer of steel anti-vandal site accommodation, and has been successfully trialled at its East Yorkshire headquarters, even during the recent rain-soaked British summer.
'Priceless' Mobile Post Office GPO 2 Restored To Original Condition

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26/07/2007

'Priceless' Mobile Post Office GPO 2 Restored To Original Condition

Built in 1937 for the provision of telegraph, telephone and postal facilities at major shows and horseracing events like Ascot, GPO 2 is now the only surviving Mobile Post Office of its kind, having been in service till the mid-80's and once converted to wartime use as a recruitment centre, then a wireless transmitting station.
HMG Among First UK Employers To Sign Government Skills Pledge

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27/06/2007

HMG Among First UK Employers To Sign Government Skills Pledge

British independent surface coatings manufacturer, HMG Paints of Manchester, was among a select group of 150 employers signing a 'skills pledge' to continue training its staff, at a Central London event attended by incoming Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and the Secretary of State for Education & Skills, Alan Johnson.
HMG Donates Paint For Refurbishing Ex Rally Community Outreach Van

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15/06/2007

HMG Donates Paint For Refurbishing Ex Rally Community Outreach Van

Independent UK paintmaker, HMG Paints has donated high performance commercial transport (CT) coatings for refurbishing a community outreach vehicle, owned by not-for-profit urban regeneration organisation, Community Support Plus of Cheetham Hill, Manchester.
Size Matters, But So Does The Complete Package

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30/05/2007

Size Matters, But So Does The Complete Package

Says Steve Louis, Sales & Marketing Manager, HMG Transport Coatings Division When spraying large vehicles, size clearly does matter, but so do many other factors that should be taken into consideration in the pre-planning of any paint job.
New Network CT Scheme & High Performance Transport Coatings

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02/05/2007

New Network CT Scheme & High Performance Transport Coatings

HMG Paints is drawing upon its strengths as the leading supplier to the UK bus & coach industry and a growing presence in the CV refinishing sector, to launch a one-stop coatings solutions network for the Commercial Transport industry.
HMG at the Commercial Vehicle Show 2007

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26/03/2007

HMG at the Commercial Vehicle Show 2007

As part of our continued success and commitment to the CV market, we are pleased to announce our attendance at The Commercial Vehicle Show 07 to be held at the NEC, Birmingham, 24th-26th April. This high profile show is expected to attract over 30,000 visitors from all aspects of the Commercial Transport Market.
HMG's Paint Away Takes To The Field At Twickenham & Murrayfield

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01/04/2005

HMG's Paint Away Takes To The Field At Twickenham & Murrayfield

HMG Paints has developed a unique, waterborne, temporary grass marking paint, Paint Away, for reproducing promotional signage at sports grounds. It was created in partnership with associate company, HMG Coatings London of Rainham, Essex, which has already supplied the product for use at Six Nations rugby matches at Twickenham, Murrayfield and the Stade de France, as well as the Tsunami Appeal exhibition game.
Ferrozinc Helps Preserve Historical World War 1 Warship

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01/12/2003

Ferrozinc Helps Preserve Historical World War 1 Warship

The conservationist role of paint is often underestimated, yet it helps to protect and preserve many vital raw materials like steel, wood and masonry, extending their service life and saving valuable natural resources. Manchester-based HMG Paints demonstrated this recently when it supplied over 500 litres of its rust inhibiting primer, Ferrozinc, to protect the hull of mainland Britain's only surviving World War I warship, Her Majesty's Monitor M33.