Valspar Specialty Paints was founded in 1951 as Raabe Company, a retail paint specialist. It focused on becoming an industrial supplier of custom color matched paint. It has expanded through acquisitions and now has over 177,000 square feet of manufacturing and warehouse space. It provides exact custom color matching for various industries through different paint technologies in various packaging including aerosols, bottles, and pens. It has multiple aerosol and non-aerosol filling lines to produce custom colors at high volumes.

1. Valspar Specialty Paints, LLC.
(Formerly Quest Industrial Products, Raabe Company Precision Color Paints)
Divisional Overview, Focus & Facility

2. Facility History Overview
• Founded as an automotive jobber and retail paint specialist as Raabe
Company
• Purchased first aerosol filling machine
• Sold retail stores to concentrate on becoming an industrial supplier of exact
color matched touch-up paint
• Started custom private labeling
• Opened nation’s most modern aerosol plant
• Acquired by Quest Specialty Products as Quest Industrial Products
• Added 67,000 sq. ft. warehouse space to our 110,000 sq. ft. of
manufacturing
• Acquired by Valspar Corporation as Valspar Specialty Paints, LLC
1951
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1986
2004
2013
2015

3. Custom Color Match
Daily average color matches = 109
Guaranteed color match
5-10 day lead times
Average number of color hits per batch = 1.1
Valspar-produced automated dispersions
in-house for quality control
Automated intermix/blending at Valspar
188 RAL matches available in aerosol
Color match in 8 current technologies
ISO 9001 & 14000 certified

4. Match Paint Technologies
ACRYLIC
ENAMEL (HG)
Fast dry less than 15
minutes, excellent
adhesion, high gloss
>90°, excellent
lightfastness for an
enamel
ACRYLIC
LACQUER (QD)
Fast dry less than 6
minutes, excellent
lightfastness, bright
colors
ACRYLIC
LACQUER FOR
PLASTICS (PQ)
FLEXIBLE
ACRYLIC
LACQUER (BA)
Fast dry less than 6
minutes, suitable for
vinyl/plastics/carpets/
mats, excellent
lightfastness, bright
colors, excellent low
temperature flexibility
EXTENDED
DURABILITY
ENAMEL (XD)
Highest initial gloss,
heat resistant to 500°
F or greater
depending on color,
excellent
lightfastness for an
enamel
ECO FRIENDLY
GLOSS ENAMEL
(EF)
New Technology for
California MIR
Compliance, similar
properties to our
(HG) technology
HIGH SOLIDS
ENAMEL (HS)
Fast dry less than 15
minutes, excellent
adhesion and
coverage, high gloss
>90°, excellent
lightfastness
AUTOMOTIVE
(MSBLV)
OEM Auto touch up
paint, one coat full
gloss system
Fast dry less than 6
minutes, excellent
lightfastness,
excellent adhesion to
most auto hard
plastics

5. Your brand or ours, we provide exact custom color touch up for all your OEM, installer and aftermarket needs.
“If it’s metal or plastic, we are on it.”
Color Match Markets
Transportation Components
Auto Exterior and Interior
Gutter and Siding
Agriculture and Construction Equipment
Marine
General Metal
Material Handling Equipment Manufacturers
Lawn and Garden Equipment
Architectural Window and Door
Household Appliance
Emergency Vehicles
Ornamental Gate and Fence Producers
MRO Distributors

6. Packaging Capabilities
Bulk Containers Aerosols
Brush-In Cap Bottles Pens
Pints – Quarts – Gallons – 5 gallon
Drums – Totes
2 oz. – .6 oz.
16 oz. – 12 oz. – 4.5 oz.
.3 oz.

7. 140 different types of valves
120 different types of actuators
Custom designed labels or Precision Color
label with your imprinted information
Set up to meet special packaging and
shipping container requirements
Approximate color matched caps available
(minimum order quantity required)
Non standard packaging available
Multi color kit packaging
Custom Packaging

8. Aerosol Filling Lines
Lines 1 & 2
Small Capacity
12 to 500
Line 3
Medium Capacity
500 to 5,000
Line 4
High Capacity
5,000 to 15,000
Single Lane
Line 5
Super High Capacity
15,000+
Dual Lane

9. Brush-In-Cap Bottle Line
Able to run approximately 5,000 bottles
per shift/multiple colors
Bottle & Paint Pen Lines
Pen Lines
High Speed pen line able to run 10,000 or
more of one color per shift
Small Pen runs on second machine
approximately 4,000 pens per shift multiple
colors

10. For additional information contact:
Peter Odell
Phone: 262-502-7571
Email: Peter.Odell@valspar.com
Valspar Specialty Paints, LLC
N92 W14701 Anthony Avenue
Menomonee Falls, WI 53051
Valspar Specialty Paints, LLC.