For nearly 40 years, CTI Industrial Supply has been the name Las Vegas valley professionals and DIYers turn to for automotive paint, industrial supplies, safety gear, and auto body essentials. Since joining the Wesco Group family, our catalog has only gotten deeper, our buying power stronger, and our ability to pass savings on to customers better than ever. But even with over 30,000 products in our online store, no single supplier covers every corner of the auto body and paint world. That's why we want to introduce you to a few trusted resources in our extended family of companies — each one built to solve a specific problem you might run into on the job or in your garage.
Whether you're a body shop running a full production line, a DIYer tackling your first paint job, or someone who just wants their bumper to stop looking embarrassing, this guide walks through where to go for clearance pricing, custom color systems, and exact-match touch-up paint.
When Budget Matters Most: Auto Body Clearance
Every shop has that moment where the job needs to get done, but the budget is tight. That's exactly the gap Auto Body Clearance was built to fill. As a division of CTI Industrial Supply and English Color and Supply, Auto Body Clearance sources overstock, unsold inventory, surplus stock, and previous model runs from trusted manufacturers, then passes professional-grade automotive and industrial products through at clearance-level pricing.
If you're outfitting a shop or replacing worn gear without paying full retail, their Tools & Equipment collection regularly features discounted spray guns, sanders, and inspection lights from major brands — sometimes at 40 to 50 percent off original pricing. For metal prep and finishing, the Abrasives & Sanding section covers discs, sandpaper, and sanding blocks at clearance rates, which adds up fast when you're burning through consumables on a regular basis.
On the coatings side, their Primers & Sealers collection is worth checking before you place a full-price order, since overstocked primer and sealer lots show up there often. And because no shop should cut corners on protection to save a few dollars, the Personal Protection collection keeps safety glasses, gloves, and protective gear in stock at prices that make it easy to keep every technician properly equipped. For a running list of the best deals across categories, their Bargain Buys collection is updated as new clearance lots come in, so it's a good one to bookmark and revisit.
Auto Body Clearance won't always have exactly what you need in stock, since inventory shifts with whatever manufacturers overstock — but when it lines up, the savings are real, and the product quality is the same professional-grade material CTI customers already trust.
When the Job Calls for Something Custom: Kolor Koalition
Not every project is about restoring a vehicle to stock condition. Sometimes a customer — or your own build — calls for a paint job that turns heads. That's the world Kolor Koalition lives in. Their story goes back to 1946, when automotive color was still simple and functional, long before kandy basecoats and multi-stage systems existed. Their Our Story page traces that evolution and makes the case that color shouldn't be an afterthought on a build — it should be the identity of it.
For shops or hobbyists ready to go beyond a factory-standard finish, Kolor Koalition's Paints & Coatings collection is the hub for kandy basecoats, metallic basecoats, pearls, and the layered 2-stage, 3-stage, and 4-stage systems that create depth most single-stage paints simply can't achieve. If a project calls for something with real texture and sparkle under light, their Flake collection offers colored, neon, holographic, and gemstone flake options for panels, tanks, and full builds.
Custom color shops still need the same fundamentals every body shop relies on, and Kolor Koalition's Autobody collection reflects that — spray guns, abrasives, fillers, masking supplies, and safety gear sit alongside the paint systems, so a custom job doesn't require sourcing prep materials from somewhere else entirely.
For CTI customers who mostly work in collision repair and factory-match refinishing, Kolor Koalition is a useful resource to keep in your back pocket for the day a customer asks for something a little more adventurous than a stock color code.
When You Just Need an Exact Match: The Touch Up Shop
The most common paint job in the world isn't a full respray — it's a scratch, a scuff, or a door ding that needs to disappear. For that, The Touch Up Shop has spent nearly four decades building out one of the largest OEM color-matching databases in the industry, with more than 500,000 factory paint colors on file for cars, trucks, SUVs, and motorcycles.
Their full product catalog lets customers search by paint code or by vehicle make and model, and every kit is mixed fresh to order rather than pulled from pre-made stock — which matters when the whole point is matching a factory color exactly. If a customer doesn't know where to find their paint code, The Touch Up Shop's guide on how to find your paint code walks through the usual hiding spots across different manufacturers, since it's rarely printed in the same place twice.
Once the right kit is in hand, their instructional content picks up where the product leaves off. The how-to guide for using spray paint covers technique and aftercare for anyone spraying for the first time, and the scratch repair and blending guide focuses specifically on getting a seamless blend so a touch-up doesn't read as an obvious patch. For a shop fielding a lot of small cosmetic repair requests, pointing customers toward a reliable OEM-match resource like this can save time that's better spent on bigger jobs.
Putting It Together
Here's a simple way to think about how these four resources fit around what CTI already offers:
- CTI Industrial Supply — your primary source for automotive paint, abrasives, industrial and safety supplies, and the tools and accessories that keep a shop running day to day, backed by nearly 40 years of trusted distribution.
- Auto Body Clearance — the place to check first when budget matters, offering the same categories of professional-grade product at overstock and clearance pricing.
- Kolor Koalition — the specialist for custom kandy paints, flake, and multi-stage color systems when a project calls for more than a standard factory finish.
- The Touch Up Shop — the go-to for exact OEM color matching on smaller cosmetic repairs, backed by one of the largest paint-code databases in the business.
Most shops end up using more than one of these at different points in a given month. A collision repair job might pull primer and abrasives straight from CTI's shelves, a custom build might source kandy basecoat and flake from Kolor Koalition, a budget-conscious customer might get steered toward Auto Body Clearance for a discounted spray gun, and a quick cosmetic fix might get handled with an OEM-matched kit from The Touch Up Shop. Knowing which resource specializes in what keeps a shop efficient and keeps customers coming back.
Final Thoughts
CTI Industrial Supply has built its reputation on quality, reliability, and fair pricing across three decades in the Las Vegas valley and beyond, and joining the Wesco Group has only expanded what we're able to offer. But we also believe in pointing customers toward the right resource for the job, even when that means looking beyond our own catalog. Whether that's clearance pricing through Auto Body Clearance, custom color through Kolor Koalition, or exact OEM matching through The Touch Up Shop, having the full picture of what's available makes it easier to get every project — big or small — done right the first time.
Stop by our online store or our Las Vegas and Richardson, TX locations for everything you need day to day, and keep these partner resources in mind for the jobs that call for something a little different.