Tinting

Tinting offers an unlimited choice of colours

Tikkurila produces paints and coatings for both DIY and professional painters, as well as for industrial users. Paint manufacturing traditions have been combined with the latest technological achievements and standards of environmental awareness. The extensive use of tinting, that is, providing colours made immediately to order, form the base of Tikkurila's own paint manufacture and marketing.
 
Tinting is an economic way of producing a virtually unlimited number of paint colours to meet the exact needs of each individual customer, large or small. All that is required are a few base paints and colourants (colour concentrates), together with colour formulae, dispensing equipment and a great deal of expertise.

Paint manufacturers, retailers, and paint consumers employ tinting systems, as tinting offers many advantages at each stage of distribution. This advanced technology improves the availability of ready-to-use paints and ensures better customer service.

Tinting benefits everybody

By adding colourants to base paints, even very small batches of tinted paint can be economically produced. The best approach is to tint the paint to meet the needs of end-users as closely as possible and exactly when they need it. In other words, the right colour of the right amount of paint at the right time.

Paint retailers can make paint with the exact shade that customers want - and do it quickly. At the same time, retailers benefit by having less capital tied up in equipment. Tinting also means considerable savings for industrial painting lines, as the importance of special, custom-tinted colours is becoming more important and demand is growing.

Base paints are manufactured in large batches, which significantly reduces the cost per litre. For paint manufacturers, tinting helps rationalize production and provide more flexible customer services. The manufacture of base paints (typically white and clear) also reduces the industry’s ecological footprint when compared to traditional paint manufacturing methods.