Dare to venture beyond the grey? That is the challenge being thrown out by Gilberts, to brighten British buildingscapes, particularly where large banks of louvres are involved.
Gilberts has invested almost £500,000 in powder coating line that quadruples its colouration capacity and can apply to any BS or RAL colour.
Ian Rogers, sales director at Gilberts said: “Look across any urban or built-up aspect, and almost all you see is grey.”
“We invested in our coating plant to meet our current requirement: Now, almost every piece we produce is powder coated. But at least 90% of what we coat for external use is a shade of grey. The ‘cost’ of powder coating is already there, it’s no more (or very little extra) to make it blue, yellow, red, green etc. instead.”
Gilberts’ range of architectural and external standard, high performance and acoustic louvres for façades, windows, plant screening and roof penthouses can be appropriately powder coated in weather-resistant polyester paint, PVF finished or anodised.
