2021 BUYER'S GUIDE

ON TO THE NEXT NEW NORMAL? NO PROBLEM If you recall, in last year’s Collision Repair Buyer’s Guide, we had cautioned that the 2020s would

ENLIGHTENING LIGHTS HIGHWAY THRU HELL’S AL QUIRING AND J.W. SPEAKER TEAM-UP ON ROADSIDE SAFETY If there’s one thing Al Quiring really wants to see his

FIRED-UP FOR THE FUTURE THE NEXT GENERATION OF WELDERS ARRIVES It is a safe bet that, however your business conducted welds in the first decade

INCREMENTAL INNOVATIONS HOW SMALL TIME-SAVINGS ADD UP For every impressive, technologically advanced individual piece of equipment purchased by collision repair businesses, hundreds of pieces of

CHANGE RESISTANCE SOME BUSINESSES ARE SKEPTICAL OF HIGH-TECH TOOLS The past few decades have transformed the tools used to conduct repairs.  Products such as ultraviolet lamps, which

CAN’T TOUCH THIS HOW A GLOBAL PANDEMIC SPURRED WIDESPREAD INNOVATION IN INDUSTRY SOFTWARE SUITE DESIGN During the months that humanity hid indoors in 2020, the

SCANNING THE SCENE IS YOUR BUSINESS PRE-REPAIR PREPARED? If there’s one thing that the introduction of widespread pre- and post-repair scanning has brought to the

ALL CLEAR? THINK AGAIN DEVELOPING AN EFFECTIVE SCANNING PROCESS Collision businesses that develop an effective diagnostic scan process will see an almost immediate benefit.  A

GREENER PASTURES REPAIR MORE, RECYCLE MORE, EARN MORE During the height of the coronavirus pandemic, Dave Flockhart, chief operating officer of BETAG said facilities could

UNDENTED OPPORTUNITIES WHY PDR PROVIDERS ARE THRIVING EVEN AS THEIR TECHNIQUES GO MAINSTREAM The paintless dent repair sector’s transition from a specialized service into a

TOO GOOD TO MISS PDR TECHNIQUES GO MAINSTREAM After decades of separation from the collision repair sector, paintless dent repair (PDR) technicians developed techniques unheard

COVERAGE GUARANTEES THE GEAR THAT WILL KEEP YOUR CUSTOMERS COMING BACK While painting vehicles may sound like a simple enough task for anyone who has

PRIMED AND READY AUTOMOTIVE PAINTING; AN ART AND A SCIENCE It is an uncomfortable truth that—for many members of the general public—the go-to way of

FEVER PITCH WHY HEALTH AND SAFETY JUST BECAME BIG BUSINESSES I n 2020, health and safety procedures often made the difference between success and failure

DISINFECTION DONE RIGHT CLEANING THROUGH YOUR COMPETITION In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the general public remains cautious about touching surfaces others hands have

SHATTERING THE GLASS A TRANSPARENT LOOK AT AUTO GLASS One thing should be very clear: bringing auto glass repair and replacement services into a collision

COVER YOUR ADAS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ADAS stands for Advanced Driver Assistance System. It refers to any electronic system that assists the driver

TAILOR-MADE FOR THE TRADE WHEN IT COMES TO ALIGNMENT AND MEASURING SYSTEMS, DO YOU HAVE YOUR OPTIONS STRAIGHT? Until recently, most collision facilities outsourced alignment

PRECISION MEASURING WITHOUT BORDERS WHY NEW ALIGNMENT AND MEASURING TECH IS TAKING BUSINESS OUT-OF-BOUNDS While vehicle lifts might be stuck inside collision facilities, they are

STUCK ON GLUE THE COLLISION SECTOR ENTERS THE ADHESIVE AGE—IS YOUR BUSINESS READY? It is easy to understand why progressive repairers are frequently averse to

STRUCTURAL ADHESIVES UNDERSTOOD WHY MECHANICAL FASTENERS CAN’T ALWAYS COMPETE Structural adhesives allow vehicle designers a level of flexibility that cannot be achieved with mechanical fasteners

THE NITTY-GRITTY AS VEHICLE MATERIALS GO HIGH-TECH, ABRASIVES HAVE GONE THROUGH A MAJOR OVERHAUL To those outside the collision repair industry, it may seem strange

ROUGHED UP IS YOUR BUSINESS READY FOR HIGH-TECH SUPERABRASIVES? As manufacturers use more complicated materials and rely more and more on mixedmaterial combinations formed using