Aluminium: The Many Lives of an Ever More Valuable Metal Aluminium is a ductile, lightweight metal with its distinctive silvery-white appearance. It is an excellent conductor of heat and electricity, highly reflective, and almost infinitely recyclable without losing any of its original properties. Around 75% of all the aluminium produced since the late nineteenth century […]
In recent years, the colour sample collection market has undergone a significant evolution. While colour swatch books were once regarded primarily as sales tools, they are now increasingly recognised as strategic assets for companies, designers, window and door manufacturers, and paint producers. A professional colour sample collection must be accurate, consistent over time, and perfectly […]
Everyone uses it — from designers to sales teams, all the way to the end customer — and chances are you use it often too. For many, the aluminium colour fan deck is an everyday tool, invaluable when making colour choices that have a major impact on the final aesthetic of a product or project. […]
Colour as a Global Language Assigning a universal classification to every colour stems from a very practical need: to communicate a proposed or desired colour clearly, unambiguously and consistently—even at a distance, without direct contact or an immediate physical reference. From this perspective, the RAL colour system can be compared to a true international language […]
