See how Global Finishing Solutions® (GFS) products have played a key role in the success of automotive body shops, collision repair centers, manufacturing facilities, wood finishing shops, military and MSO facilities have learned how to benefit from our products and services.
Targeting junior high and high school students, the Crossover Restoration Foundation aims to provide an avenue for at-risk teenagers to turn around their lives. The past seven years, JB Baldridge has worked to get the ministry up and running. He finally is nearing that point, thanks to the addition of an Ultra XS Paint Booth from GFS.
With a shop expansion underway at ABRA Faribault, three things were priorities for body shop general manager Aaron Kasparek — increased flexibility, more space and better contamination control. Check, check and check, mostly thanks to a dual-bay Ultra XD Closed-Top Open-Front (CTOF) Booth from GFS that was paired with an Ultra XD Paint Booth and Ultra XD Paint Mix Room in hopes maximized productivity boosts the bottom line.
As the heat and humidity blasts Pittsburgh this summer, Mike Palm isn’t sweating over temperature fluctuations in his paint booths. Consistent temperatures in all spots of the GFS paint booths at Bowser Collision of Murrysville have helped the Chevrolet dealership produce clean, high-quality paint jobs to get repaired vehicles back to customers faster.
Finishing their carbon fiber composite parts with two to three times as much clearcoat as a typical automotive body shop, SpeedKore needed faster curing, without sacrificing quality. A visit to the Center for Excellence — the state-of-the-art training facility resembling a working body shop in Osseo, Wisconsin — convinced SpeedKore that the REVO Handheld from GFS could help them maximize efficiency, for a relatively minimal investment.
A Large Equipment Paint Booth from GFS — measuring 60 feet long and 18 feet high — has enabled Camping World of Madison to significantly increase throughput with much-improved contamination control and faster curing times.
Kye Yeung’s customers love their cars — and they drive fancy ones. When their car needs a repair, they want it done right, and they want it back fast. At European Motor Car Works, having dependable, high-performance equipment is a necessity. In Yeung’s latest shop expansion, GFS and Maximum Equipment & Technical Services delivered what he needed to get customers back on the road and keep OEMs happy.
Needing to replace an aging paint booth at one of his body shops, Jesse Jacobson sought a booth manufacturer that could provide reliable service and support in a timely manner. He found peace of mind with GFS and local distributor Platinum Equipment, and the new Ultra XL Paint Booth at Heppner’s Rivercity Collision Centre has increased throughput, improved efficiency and created new business opportunities.
For Dan Tronrud, a bigger footprint means a bigger business and bigger expectations from insurance companies. So when Osceola Auto Body doubled their space in 2022, with an 11,820-square-foot expansion, Tronrud knew GFS equipment could help his shop deliver 1,100-plus repair orders and more than $4 million in sales this year.
For more than a century, Michael Cuene’s family has bought, sold and repaired cars. In the latest expansion of his flagship dealership, all signs pointed to GFS being the best fit for Broadway Automotive Collision Center. And in 2022, a massive rebuild — featuring four paint booths, a dual-bay prep station and two paint mix rooms from GFS, as well as 42 service bays and a drive-thru estimating station — has Cuene feeling good about the future of his business.
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