Car Paint Protection Film

Approximately 30 percent of a car’s value is wrapped up in its physical attractiveness. Today, state-of-the-art paint protection film fiercely protects a car’s finish, from headlights to bumpers. The virtually invisible and durable urethane films provide environmental protection against a variety of contaminants. One major challenge, however, for suppliers offering these car coatings is that it entails farming out adhesives, topcoats, and converting work with multiple vendors to perform the key steps required to deliver quality. One company bucks that trend.

Saint-Gobain is an instrumental innovator in the technology behind protection films and is an industry leader in providing contract coating services and custom development to those requiring the best available paint protection film technology. Saint-Gobain’s VERSIV™ paint protection film and coatings are based on a solid understanding of films and coatings, going further to provide coating solutions that until now have remained elusive.

VERSIV™ Paint Protection Film (PPF)

VERSIV™ PPF protects vehicle surfaces from the constant attack of dirt, debris and airborne particulates. VERSIV™ high-performance PPF delivers a strong and durable shield for bare or painted metal, glass or plastic surfaces exposed to extreme conditions.

VERSIV™ comprises specialty-formulated coatings and custom laminations, including a wide variety of UV-curable coatings and aqueous- and solvent-based coatings. Functional coating properties and features include:

• Anti-static
• Matte
• Hard coat
• Friction
• Tints
• Fire retardant
• Adhesives
• Primers
• Conductive
• Toll coating

By combining and customizing a combination of films and coating technologies, Saint-Gobain engineers understand the processes, coatings, and lamination necessary to create high-performance coating solutions that are unique to each of its customers. The focus of the company’s contract services involves products that are co-developed and customized via a partnership approach, ensuring two critical things for its customers:

1. Saint-Gobain becomes a partner that avidly works toward its customers’ successes.
2. Saint-Gobain’s customers achieve a range of proprietary products and capabilities.

Saint-Gobain creates highly engineered products and provides unique design flexibility — all under one roof, eliminating the need for its customers to deal with a variety of vendors, compatibility issues, lost time, and less-than-stellar results. Saint-Gobain gained substantial expertise in films, coating, and cleanroom capabilities based on its work within the electronics industry. Leveraging that experience, Saint-Gobain develops, designs and manufactures innovative products using specialty-engineered films, complex laminates, and high-performance coatings to provide a variety of valuable solutions to its customers. Saint-Gobain is a trusted partner with a track record of innovation and commitment to excellence.

Saint-Gobain has pioneered the coatings and plastic films industry for over 50 years. Its most recent company milestones in PPF include:

• 2007 – Engineered multi-layered topcoat for surface protection
• 2008 – Innovated manufacturing upgrades for cleanliness and coating uniformity, including class 1,000 cleanroom laminators and ISO 9001-2008 recertification
• 2010 – Provided slitting upgrades for PPF cleanliness and converting
• 2011 – Achieved ISO 14001:2015-certified environmental management system.
• 2012 – Entered partnerships with customers for toll manufacture and PPF product design
• 2017 – Added enhanced converting, testing and inspection of PPF products
• 2018 – ISO 9001:2015-certified quality management system recertification

Today, Saint-Gobain is the world leader in developing coatings and plastic films and provides a complete range of custom products so that its customers get exactly what they need from one supplier.