Colorplas is a superior manufacturer of gelcoats & colour paste supplying the GRP Composites Industry.

We have an extensive portfolio of products that undergoes continual improvement & our focus on the future will ensure we innovate, create green technology with styrene free & low styrene gelcoats & enhance our market leading service. Choose from an enviable range of products covering all sectors, benefit from tailored materials to your specific requirements, develop new technologies with us, and get ahead or stay ahead in your chosen sector, or perhaps promote diversification.

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Meaningful & Focused Production

Year on year continual investment ensures we are up to date with the latest process machinery to help guarantee that we exceed our customers’ expectations on deliveries.

Continual Investment

Our current investment in machinery, plant and people is helping us to achieve our vision, driving us forward, focusing on customer care and excellent technical support.

Relationship Building

Our strong ethos as a family business is to enjoy our work and build relationships that are strong and mutually beneficial. We are a dedicated team and very loyal in generating successful business partnerships.

We take enormous pride in what we do, and believe that excellence is never an accident, it is always the result of best intentions, huge effort, discerning direction & skilful execution.

We are recognised as pioneers in service & strive to stay ahead with innovation & diversification, giving us the desire plus ability, to satisfy your current requirements or help you to achieve precisely what your new project demands.

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Having decades of collective experience has enabled us to refine the service which we offer our customer, into the 4 key points below.

Premium Quality

All of our products are manufactured to the highest standards, working to our ISO 9001:2015 system and are amongst the best in the world. Only the finest materials and latest technologies are used to ensure the product suitability, stability and usability. We also invest into testing the best raw materials for future products and formulas of existing products.

Fast Supply

We have a choice of standard and next day services on both hazardous and non-hazardous freight. We also have our own fleet of vans and freight forward options to truly offer national coverage. We serve the Yorkshire area at least 3 times a week and the Lancashire area at least twice a week.

Our production turnaround time is 1-2 days and we deliver non-standard products within a working week and standard products next day. Also, solid working relationships with our forwarders, means that high standards can also be delivered when we’re not moving the goods ourselves.

Technical Backup

We offer more than just a technical data sheet. We advise and explain any technical aspect to ensure peace of mind when ordering from Colorplas. We form partnerships with our clients and nothing is too much trouble to ensure that you have all the information you need to order the product most suited to your application.

Tech data & material safety data is available to you no matter what the issue may be, through our sign-up service.

Whether you have an issue on the shop-floor or a job that needs a new product to help it come to fruition – Colorplas can help.

Customer Support

We love beating expectations and we pride ourselves on customer service. So if you’re unhappy with your current gelcoat and colourant paste specialist manufacturing company, contact us.

Investment / Plant – Machinery

We believe Service is the only sustainable edge. For us, excellence is never an accident, it is always the result of best intentions, huge effort, discerning direction & skilful execution, Colorplas represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

The Investments we make are tailored towards one thing, our customers’ requirements! Whether this be in the Gelcoat Plant, Colourant Plant, related Laboratories or Head Offices all Investments are aiding us to do what we do even faster. This is a continual trend that evolves as our customers do which runs parallel to prosper them as well as Colorplas.

In our 30th Year we have never reached such efficiency, from Raw Material choice, Plant Investment & People. This collective has seen our capabilities proliferate while maintaining strong control over wastage and downtime.

Technical support

Colorplas can offer Product Information to customers who need more than a data sheet and will explain any unclear aspect. This comes from our desire to be of service ethos and sets us apart. Tech Data & Material Safety Data is available to you no matter what the issue may be, through our sign up service. Whether you have an issue on the shop-floor or a job you have needs a new product to help it come to fruition – Colorplas can help.

“Got some ongoing challenges, or have a requirement for a non standard product? You don’t have to suffer this as the norm, we can solve your issues or help you develop a bespoke product.” Nick Parkinson – Managing Director

Process capabilities

“Meaningful & Focused Production” Year on year continual investment ensures Colorplas are up to date with the latest process machinery to help deliver one of our core competences. Speed of turnaround is critical to the Colorplas offering. We understand that customers downtime is not desirable & is costly so this drives meaningful and focused management of our processes.

With plans for multiple contracts on an extensive range of machinery comes the undoubted realisation of Colorplas’ vision. Investment in a second Gelcoat Facility, Soluble Bag Colourant Packing Machine, Colour Paste Processing Technology & Gelcoat Blending Capabilities are all opening doors to various other markets and aiding our existing markets further also. Productivity & Efficiency have always been natural gifts to Colorplas and given its continual line of new equipment, this ensures Fast and Lean manufacture comes absolutely as standard.