With over 22 years of providing Austin, Lakeway and the surrounding areas the highest quality auto body repair and painting service, WHITAKERS Auto Body & Paint is continuing their commitment to be a responsible member of their community by converting to PPG’s Envirobase Waterborne Paint.

“Protection of our environment is everyone’s responsibility and we are doing our part by converting from petroleum based paint to environment friendly water based paint. This will greatly reduce voc emissions” said Larry Whitaker, President of WHITAKERS Auto Body & Paint. “We selected PPG’s Envirobase Waterborne Paint. PPG scientists understood early on that the auto body shop industry would have to move away from petroleum based paints and they took the steps to address the environmental issues by developing a water-based paint system that produced remarkable results.”

Long before most of North America's body shops had even given thought to waterborne finishes, PPG was already immersed in it. That's because PPG saw the environmental handwriting on the wall even before it was written and for the past two decades has been developing and refining its technological expertise in both North America and Europe.

PPG expanded its global research capabilities with the acquisitions of ICI Autocolor and MaxMeyer in the 1990s, solidly establishing itself as the world's waterborne paint leader maxitpms ts501. That role was reinforced when, in 1992, ICI Autocolor (now Nexa Autocolor) introduced the world's first waterborne refinish system, an innovation that received the United Kingdom's Queens Award for Technology in 1995.

Listening carefully to customer feedback and taking advantage of its expanded global research capabilities, PPG continued to add innovations to its waterborne offerings throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century. For example, in 1998 it was the first to make available a compliant system capable of repairing 3-stage pearl finishes. And in 1999, PPG placed its first brand offering, Envirobase®—a product of its best European and North American waterborne technologies—into body shops. Ferrari was so impressed that it chose Envirobase as its original equipment finish.

Today in North America, more and more collision shops are making the transition to waterborne. In fact, more than 4,000 collision shops have made the transition to PPG's Envirobase High Performance and Aquabase Plus waterborne systems. Many of these shops have done so in light of new air quality regulations in California and Canada, and pending regulations in states governed by the OTC autel md701, predicted to take effect in January, 2012. The environment, however, is only one reason. A great many progressive shops have made the switch to "stay ahead of the game," knowing that PPG waterborne technology represents a major advancement over their solvent-borne system.

Family owned and operated, WHITAKERS Auto Body & Paint has been serving Austin drivers since 1989, now with two locations - one in central Austin at 2019 S. Lamar and one in Lakeway at 15303 Pheasant Lane. Their expertise and dedication is to provide the highest quality auto body repair service and products available.

WHITAKERS Auto Body & Paint uses the latest technology in estimating, collision repair, body work, auto painting, dent repair, bumper repair, and all other facets of auto body repair needs and they stand behind their work with a Lifetime Warranty.

If you have any questions or would like to make an appointment you can call, email or just drop by.

Larry Whitaker 2019 S. Lamar Blvd Austin, TX 78704 (512) 442-2235
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