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Auto Body Hawaii is the first repair facility on the Big Island to convert from solvent based vehicle paint to environmentally friendly waterborne vehicle paint.

This is the future of modern refinishing; simply put, waterborne refinish materials are better for the environment, for the community and better for the technicians who work with it.

Waterborne coatings, along with lead-free and chromium-free paints, are safer choices for the workplace and the environment.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s Design for theEnvironment (DfE) Program is working with the auto body/refinishing (collision repair) industry and career/technical schools to increase awareness of the health and environmental concerns associated with refinishing activities and to encourage the use of best practices and safer, cleaner, more efficient practices and technologies.

Best shop practices and the use of safer alternative paints and solvents, such as waterborne refinish technology will help prevent pollution before it is created, and appropriate protective equipment and control technology will reduce workplace and environmental exposure and risk.

The Original Equipment Manufactures (OEM) of virtually all vehicle makes have also given waterborne refinishing their seal of approval.

Dale Matsumoto, President of Auto Body Hawaii, said “vehicles manufactured today are being refinished with the new waterborne technology and utilizing the same type of materials guarantees that the repairs are equivalent to the original finish from the factory rather than the older solvent based technology.”

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