Talking Colour

After 25 years of dramatic shades, jewel tones and warm neutrals, Pantone’s colour of the year for 2026 is… white.

Offer your customers an educated palette When it comes to colour, consumers are now completely spoilt for choice. There’s a massive range available, and as well as foiled finishes, the option of spraying has literally created an unlimited palette. Bright can be right: Pinks and lilacs have also come to the fore in recent years.

Guy Hubble, discusses the advantages of taking full control of your painting requirements. Spray Debate: In-house vs Outsourcing Vertical integration is a popular phrase in manufacturing – fenestration included. By bringing as many processes as possible in-house, it enables better control over production and helps to control different stages along the supply chain, instead of

Guy Hubble, Joint Managing Director at RegaLead, discusses the advantages of joining the renovation revolution and training to spray. While the phrase ‘make do and mend’ might be old fashioned, igniting images of wartime wives stitching and patching old clothes, the sentiment behind it has never been more topical. You can barely switch on the

Colour is a serious business in our industry. It’s all around us, in everything
we see, and in our everyday lives. We talk about people leading colourful lives, showing their true colours, while often using colourful language.

Is Pink as a door colour choice, that started during the lockdown and reached new heights with the Barbiecore trend, finally showing signs of waning? Research research from Kitchen, door and flooring retailer Magnet indicates there may well be a new door colour set to liven up the streets…. Lilac, rather than pink, looks set

Meet Rachel, Our Coatings Manufacturing Division Manager… What’s your role at RegaLead? I manage the division of RegaLead that manufacture all the coatings (including paints and resins) for the glass and fenestration industry. How long have you been with the company? 5 years and 9 months Best bit about the job? I can work with

Picture the scene – it’s 25 degrees, you’re in the pub beer garden and you’ve got a black t-shirt on. You’re sweltering, but those around you in their white and light-coloured tops are enjoying the sun without a care in the world. They’re not experiencing what you’re suffering and we all know why – who

Regalead have become a distributor partner for JTape – an industry standard in the automotive spraying industry. With starting out in the automotive industry, they’ve developed a range of products that are incredibly versatile and have a no-nonsense approach to the substrates they’re required for. We stock two of their major products in a range

US premium paint giant, Benjamin Moore has launched its Colour Trends 2022 Pallete which is dominated by earthy tones with October Mist as the stand out colour of the year, a stunning shaded sage green. Reminiscent of the early morning haze that appears over fields and in forests, we love this grey-green hue. Sherwin Williams