what is APA Italian Vinyl?

[Robert Lambie]

you can by it direct from APA mate… don’t have details handy sorry.
i used their vinyls a while back. brilliant colour selection but i have heard they have reduced the range these days. as i said, i used it a while back. die 4 vans never used it again. the vans had hard to match colours and APA did the colours, hence why i used it. i didn’t have ANY problems with fitting the stuff and after about 4 years i replaced it. nothing much had effected it. colours were still vibrant enough/not bleached. no cracks in vinyl or wrinkles, but it had shrunk a couple of millimetres. other than that nothing. which isn’t bad after 4 years of constantly on the road.
the only other time i use their vinyl is for TRUCK vinyl. this is an extremely stretchy, strong bonding banner type vinyl that you would only use on curtain sided trucks. works very well and is a fraction of the price of Avery’s.

[Matt Hards]

thanks robert,
some good advice, if you could post a contact, that would be really useful. I think i`d like to try some, see what its like.

[Robert Lambie]

think this is it… not sure if they have another site for uk.

http://www.apaspa.com/

[Matt Hards]

Thankyou, ill ring them on monday

[Lee Ballard]

Got their current range of colour cards, nice range, not the biggest but they do do some different shades that no-one else seems to do.

Had to match a colour for a customer recently and APA cast had the closest match by far.

Also as well as truck vinyl the do a nice range of banner vinyl colour.

Lee

[David White]

APA London Number is 020 8311 4400

[Dave Glyde]

Always use APA simply because their ‘London’ warehouse is 5 mins up the road from us at Dartford which means we just go and buy it as we need it. Compared to other makes, I have got used to using it now. The adhesive is not very forgiving and the vinyl only has to see the van and its stuck fast wheras some other makes such as Mactac do act more like pressure sensitive adhesives. Apart from the convenience have not really found a reason to switch permanently to any other make. Give it a try.

Dave

[Richard Urquhart]

re apa vinyl
i have just got hold of lots of apa vinyl from a local sign shop that closed down and have used some of the chrome that was there
the stuff is amazing when i say thin it very thin and so easy to cut and weed like nothing i have used before
only thing is there is no marking on the rear of the film so cant give you a code
i have spoken to apa and they are sending me out some info
just like to know if any of you have used the chrome

rich