Brand profile
Ceramic Pro
Installer-network coating brand with a tiered warranty programme, and one of only two companies here that names a third-party lab and specific test standards for its performance claims.
- Registered name
- Ceramic Pro, LLC
- Parent company
- NanoShine Ltd, named as manufacturer
- Founded
- 2010
- How you buy it
- Certified installers only
Ceramic Pro does more of the right things than almost anyone here — names a real lab, cites real standards, publishes real warranty terms — and then undercuts it in ways that are worth walking through carefully.
Background
Introduced in 2010 by NanoShine Ltd, which the brand names as its manufacturer, with Ceramic Pro, LLC as the warrantor. Coatings are installer-only: initial application must be performed by a certified installer, and the retail store carries aftercare and merchandise rather than the coatings themselves. No headquarters is published.
The good part
Their technology page names SGS as the testing house and cites specific standards with specific results: JIS K5400 pencil hardness, ASTM D3359 adhesion at 5B, ASTM D522 mandrel bend with no loss at 180 degrees, ASTM D2794 impact, ASTM B117 salt spray, ASTM G154 UV exposure, and heavy metals testing. Most of this category names no standard at all.
The limitation is that none of the certificates is downloadable. The page lists the documents by name — pencil hardness at 500 g, alkali resistance, acid resistance — without linking any of them. So you can check what test was claimed, but not what it returned.
Where it comes apart
One sentence, two very different numbers. Salt spray resistance is given as 350 hours verified by SGS and, in the same sentence, 5,000 hours from an internal test. The internal figure is roughly fourteen times the independently verified one, sits beside it with equal weight, and has no report behind it.
Hardness above the top of the scale. They state the pencil scale correctly — 6B softest to 9H hardest — and then claim a result “above 9H”, with no explanation of how a result exceeds a scale’s maximum. Note also that the tested product named in that passage is Strong, their industrial coating, not the automotive 9H product the page is generally taken to describe.
The copy contradicts the contract. The page claims 100% resistance against damaging contaminants and harsh chemicals. The warranty they actually sign excludes hard water spots, swirl marks, marring, scratches, scuffs, scrapes and chips. Both cannot be true, and only one of them is enforceable.
A superiority claim that is simply not correct. The about page states that no other automotive paint protection product has been officially tested to date. System X publishes its own SGS results, so that claim was already untrue when we read it.
The warranty, which is genuinely detailed
Worth reading before you pay for a lifetime coating. Terms run from six months for Sport up to lifetime for Ultimate ION and Gold — but the lifetime terms drop to seven and five years respectively if you miss an annual service. Commercial vehicles are excluded, as are matte and non-clear-coated finishes, brush car washes, stone chips, racing and any application by a non-certified installer. Claims must be filed within 30 days. Total liability is capped at $2,000 or the cost of application, whichever is less.
A lifetime warranty with an annual service requirement and a $2,000 cap is a real thing, just a considerably smaller thing than the word lifetime suggests.
Where Ceramic Pro’s own figures disagree
These are not our measurements. Each row is a figure the brand publishes about itself, with the page it appeared on and the date we read it. We are not adjudicating which one is correct — the useful observation is that a specification with several published values was asserted rather than measured.
Salt spray resistance
Resistance to contaminants, page copy against the binding warranty
What Ceramic Pro publishes about itself
- Safety data sheet
- Not found
- Publishes any test data or method
- Yessource
- Publishes an ingredient breakdown
- No
- Written warranty
- Lifetime claimedsource
How we checked: Checked the homepage link set and the sitemap index for a safety data sheet library and found none, which is notable for an installer-applied product professionals handle daily. The test-data finding is genuine but partial: they name SGS as the lab and cite specific standards with results, including JIS K5400 pencil hardness, ASTM D3359 adhesion, ASTM B117 salt spray, ASTM D522 mandrel bend, ASTM D2794 impact and ASTM G154 UV, and they list the underlying certificates by name — but none of those documents is downloadable, so the reports themselves are not published. Assessed August 10, 2026.
Sources
Everything on this page about the company traces to one of these, with the date we read it. Brands edit their own claims, so an undated citation is worthless.
“On a scale ranging from 6B (softest) to 9H (hardest), Strong has been tested and classified above 9H.”
“Pay the owner of the nominated vehicle a maximum amount of $2,000.00 or the cost of coating application (whichever is less)”
“In 2010 Nanoshine Ltd introduced Ceramic Pro”