RAL 5000 – Violet Blue
RAL 5000, named Violet Blue. This RAL colour is in the Blue hues category, part of the RAL Classic colour system. HOW RAL COLOURS ARE MEASURED Color Name Dutch Paarsblauw Color name German Violettblau Color name French Bleu violet Color name Italian Blu violaceo Color name Spanish Azul violeta *LRV – Light Reflectance Value RAL […]
RAL 4001 – Red Lilac
RAL 4001, named Red Lilac. This RAL colour is in the Violet hues category, part of the RAL Classic colour system. HOW RAL COLOURS ARE MEASURED Color Name Dutch Roodlila Color name German Rotlila Color name French Lilas rouge Color name Italian Lilla rossastro Color name Spanish Rojo lila *LRV – Light Reflectance Value RAL […]
RAL 3000 – Flame Red
RAL 3000, named Flame Red. This RAL colour is in the Red hues category, part of the RAL Classic colour system. HOW RAL COLOURS ARE MEASURED Color Name Dutch Vuurrood Color name German Feuerrot Color name French Rouge feu Color name Italian Rosso fuoco Color name Spanish Rojo vivo *LRV – Light Reflectance Value RAL […]
RAL 2000 – Yellow Orange
RAL 2000, named Yellow Orange. This RAL colour is in the Orange hues category, part of the RAL Classic colour system. HOW RAL COLOURS ARE MEASURED Color Name Dutch Geeloranje Color name German Gelborange Color name French Orangé jaune Color name Italian Arancio giallastro Color name Spanish Amarillo naranja *LRV – Light Reflectance Value RAL […]
RAL 1000 – Green Beige
RAL 1000, named Green Beige. This RAL colour is in the Yellow hues category, part of the RAL Classic colour system. HOW RAL COLOURS ARE MEASURED Color Name Dutch Groenbeige Color name German Grünbeige Color name French Beige vert Color name Italian Beige verdastro Color name Spanish Beige verdoso *LRV – Light Reflectance Value RAL […]
The Green Revolution at B65
Well to begin with B65 is our post code, in the depths of The Black Country, the home of engineering and the birth place of the industrial revolution. We make solvent based industrial coatings which is a challenge in today’s Green and getting Greener environment. But you are either on side, or you face a […]
The Factory and Football
Monday morning clocking in and the first break in the canteen talk turns to the weekend football… Bad refereeing, VAR, “should have made the subs earlier”, “they get paid so much and play like that”, “you know I think we can top the league this season”… At Thomas Howse we have brought football to the […]
“Yeah, But It’s Cheap”
We recently lost a customer to a competitor purely on price… We managed to get a sample of the other companies paint, tested it reported back to the customer to indicate where it fell short and why “it was cheap” That was in July. This month the buyer came back to explain that their Spray […]
Floor to Ceiling
Increasingly, especially since Covid, industry and business in general has and is dealing with December as near shutdown month, a time to re-set, re-furbish and re-focus for the start of a new year, a new budget. We have seen our sales of industrial floor paint, wall and roof coatings increase year on year since 2020. […]
Investment in the future
Over the last 2 years at Thomas Howse Paints we have invested just over £1 million in new, modern production machinery. Basket mills, High Speed Disperses. Mixers and filling equipment. Making paint better, getting it right first time and ensuring quality monitored and tested by a dedicated Quality Control Team using the latest QC Test […]
