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Our Story.

Our Story

In 1998, MoTip B.V. (Netherlands) merged with Vogelsang AG (Switzerland), which was known for its DUPLI-COLOR brand, to form the MOTIP DUPLI Group. Both companies had been founded long before the merger in '98. What started as a small idea grew into a company with 1000+ employees operating throughout the whole of Europe.

Vogelsang AG
Kurt Vogelsang AG was founded in Schwerzenbach, Switzerland in 1946. From the distribution of building protection paints, paint rollers and rust converters, the company developed into paints for car paint repair. In Germany, the first production of touch-up pencils began at the Haßmersheim site in 1956 and spray cans from 1955. In the 1980s, paint and special effect sprays were then also supplied for the newly established DIY market. With the launch of DUPLI-COLOR AQUA in 1986, the world's first water-based paint spray was introduced to the market and growth was strongly accelerated.

MoTip B.V.
At the end of the 1960s, Wout Post, founder of MoTip, started selling “touch-up”  paint from his father's shed in Valkenburg in the south of the Dutch province of Zuid-Holland. Years later, he started experimenting with pigments and creating his own colour shades. Around 1980, the company switched to developing spray paint. The factory was established in Steenwijk, but later moved to Wolvega, where it continued to expand.

Moving forward together
In 1996, the VoMo Corporation was established in Switzerland as an independent purchasing company of Vogelsang Gmbh and MoTip B.V. This laid the foundation for the merger that was to follow in 1998. Integration then followed throughout the noughties. Now it is time for European Aerosols to distance itself from the product brands MOTIP and DUPLI-COLOR, and to position and develop them more strongly as individual product brands.

The future of European Aerosols
We are active on the European market and with the name European Aerosols we are strengthening our position in that market. Our ambition is to produce even more spray cans in a responsible and sustainable way.

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How to find a car paint colour code

Need to know the colour of your car? It’s actually located on your car. Even if two paint colours look the same, car manufacturers make loads of different exterior paint colours and they can all vary from year to year, so you need to make sure the code is right to get an exact paint match. Find out below where you can find your car’s colour.

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Most common places

The image above shows the most common places where you can find your colour code. If you select your car brand you will see a specific image containing the locations for your vehicle.

Variation

Car manufacturers have different production series where they might use paints from different paint manufacturers. Therefore, it can occur there are slight changes in colour shade under the same car colour code. To supply everyone, MOTIP makes these variations available. Is there a check mark visible in this column? This means you have a colour code with variations. The differences are small. However, they may be noticeable. We simply cannot say precisely which article best matches the colour of your car. In this case, we’d recommend you check the colour chart at a shop. If you do want to try, always spray a small sample to check if the colour matches the colour of the car.