Optimize Your Collision Repair Paint System with a One-Coat Clear
In collision repair, every minute matters. Each time painters put down their spray guns and leave the booth, productivity slows. These pauses in the collision repair process can quickly accumulate across a workday, limiting throughput and squeezing margins. One-coat clears allow body shops to change that dynamic. This new technology reduces flash time and eliminates a second clear coat entirely, allowing shops to recover valuable capacity, reduce material and energy use and finish more repair orders with the same staff.
Furthermore, these benefits are multiplied when paired with primers, sealers and basecoats that also allow for one-visit applications. Glasurit 923-001 Efficiency, the newest one-coat clear on the market, gives body shops the power to truly streamline each step of their collision repair paint system.
The hidden bottleneck of flash time
Flash time is the mandatory waiting period between applying layers of paint. This time allows solvents to evaporate, ensuring proper adhesion for the second coat. In a modern body shop, most painters can achieve their desired result with 1.5–2 coats of clear, but these products still require flash time, and their cumulative effects are significant. Some of the consequences of flash time are:
- Lost booth capacity: Every waiting period keeps the booth occupied even though no active work is being done. Over a full day, this reduces total booth cycles.
- Lower technician productivity: Painters spend valuable time waiting rather than moving to the next job.
- Increased risk of contamination: Longer “open phases” increase vulnerability to dust or surface defects.
- Higher energy costs: Longer overall booth running time results in increased electricity and gas consumption.
- Direct financial impact: Even a 10-minute reduction per repair adds up to significant annual revenue gains.
Removing flash time with a one-coat clear gives shops immediate operational benefits.
One-coat clear technology
New one-coat clear technology, like Glasurit’s 923-001 Efficiency Clear, tackles the flash time bottleneck. Instead of a two-coat process with flash time between layers, 923-001 enables a genuine one-coat application and immediate transition to bake. The practical outcomes for shops include:
- No flash time required — reducing total process time by 5–15 minutes
- One-coat process — eliminating the need for a second coat entirely
- Up to 50% lower material consumption
- Up to 50% less booth running time, supporting lower energy use and CO₂ savings
- Increased throughput, enabling shops to complete more repair orders per week
- OEM-quality gloss and finish, with no tradeoff in appearance
- Reduced risk of application errors, thanks to fewer steps
The impact of a one-coat clear in your collision repair system
A true one-coat clear is formulated to be applied in a single application and go straight to bake. For shops, the difference goes beyond cutting a step in the collision repair process. It unlocks measurable time, material and energy savings while simplifying the workflow and reducing the risk of application errors. This is multiplied when combined with a system that enables painters to complete a job with a one-visit application for each step of the collision repair process. With 923-001, Glasurit customers are now able to apply primer in one visit, use one sealer for all substrates, apply basecoat in one visit and finish off the job with a one-coat clear, unlocking true efficiency.
Turn time savings into profit
Time saved in the refinish process can be translated directly into financial benefit. When typical shop labor rates are applied, every 10 minutes saved per repair can represent roughly $8–10 of efficiency value. For high-volume shops, those per-repair savings compound into substantial monthly and annual revenue uplifts. For example, a shop running four booth cycles per day can reallocate the time saved to perform additional repairs each week — increasing total monthly revenue without adding labor or equipment.
Environmental and quality benefits beyond time and dollars
Shorter booth cycles also translate to less energy consumption. Glasurit estimates CO₂ savings equivalent to over 7,000 lbs annually for typical shop operations when switching to an efficiency-focused one-coat clear system. At the same time, the reduced open time lowers the chance for contamination and surface defects, supporting a consistent OEM-quality finish that meets customer and insurer expectations.
If your goal is to increase throughput, improve profitability and reduce energy consumption without sacrificing finish quality, a one-coat clear is a high-impact change to consider. Schedule a demo to see the one-coat finish in your environment.
One-coat clear technology, like Glasurit 923-001 Efficiency, is a new benchmark in premium clearcoat performance. By eliminating flash time, shops free up capacity, reduce costs and deliver faster, high-quality repairs to customers. Unlock true efficiency in your collision repair paint system with a one-coat clear.