Paint mixing room and mixing station
Prepare colours in a room designed for it, not in a corner of the workshop. Ventilated, lit to render colours accurately, designed for storing solvents.
The paint mixing room — or paint lab — is the room where colours are weighed, mixed and prepared before application. It’s a workstation in its own right, often treated as a storage space, even though it carries both a quality issue and a safety issue.
A quality issue, because a colour prepared in a dusty or poorly lit environment costs you at application. A safety issue, because that is where solvents, their vapours and their storage are concentrated.
Why a dedicated room
Preparing a colour requires three things the workshop doesn’t offer: clean air, true-colour lighting and ventilation that removes solvent vapours.
Lighting is the most underestimated point. A colour judged right under approximate lighting turns out to be wrong once the part leaves the booth — and the rework costs far more than the room.
Ventilation, for its part, is not a matter of comfort. Handling solvents in an enclosed space requires properly sized extraction and equipment suited to the atmosphere. That’s what distinguishes a mixing room from a simple closed room.
Clean air
dust that falls into a tin of colour ends up on the bodywork, and nobody sees it until the vehicle leaves the booth
Lighting that renders colours accurately
it’s the most underestimated point, and the one that costs most when it’s missing
Properly sized extraction
solvent vapours don’t dilute on their own in an enclosed space
What we design
From the complete room to the open station, depending on the volume of preparation you actually handle.
Enclosed mixing rooms
ventilated and lit, for daily colour preparation
Open mixing stations
for workshops whose volume doesn’t justify a complete room
Adjoining storage areas
products stay close to the station without cluttering the workshop
Integration with what is already there
in an existing installation or as part of a new booth project
Compliance and solvent storage
A mixing room concentrates flammable products in a small space. Ventilation, electrical equipment, storage and spill containment are governed by the regulations that apply to your site and your quantities.
We design the room with these constraints in mind from the study stage, rather than discovering them at commissioning. If you already have a mixing room, we can audit it and propose a compliance upgrade — whatever the make of the installation.
Frequently asked questions
What we are most often asked before starting a study.
What is the difference between a paint mixing room and a mixing station?
The mixing room is an enclosed, ventilated and lit room dedicated to colour preparation. The mixing station is a lighter, open solution, suited to workshops whose preparation volume doesn’t justify a complete room.
Is a mixing room mandatory?
What is regulated are the conditions for handling and storing flammable products: ventilation, equipment suited to the atmosphere, spill containment. The exact obligations depend on your quantities and your site. We build them into the study rather than discovering them at commissioning.
Can it be installed in an existing workshop?
Yes, that’s the most common case. We look at the available floor space, the extraction options and the proximity of the booth, which shapes how daily work is organised.
Do you work on an existing mixing room?
Yes: audit, ventilation diagnosis, compliance upgrade and refurbishment are part of our services, whatever the make of the installation.
Is roof extraction needed?
That’s the most frequent case, but the route depends entirely on your building: height, structure, possible discharge point. It’s one of the reasons why this item remains price on request, after an on-site survey.
A paint mixing room project?
Tell us about your workshop and your preparation volumes. We’ll work out the right configuration and tell you frankly what can be done.
