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Identifying the exact blush code, bond acrylic to bout the aboriginal blush and shade, advancing the car body, and assuredly applying the blanket – at the 44th edition of WorldSkills, the apple championship of apprenticeships, 26 aerosol painters accepted that automotive refinishing is a awful circuitous trade.
During the finals in Abu Dhabi, the participants in the Car Painting class presented their abilities to a able board which was afflicted by the accurateness and abstruse ability of the finalists. After an agitative competition, the gold badge went to Yingcheng Jiang from China. Silver went to Daryl Head from the UK while Maurus von Holzen from Switzerland, Jonas Heinze from Germany and Enzo Barragato from France won brownish medals.
For BASF’s (No. 25 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) Coatings division, a all-around sponsor of WorldSkills, the antagonism is an ideal befalling to abutment the abutting bearing of automotive refinishers. It is one of abundant contributions to accomplish adolescent talents aflame about the spraypainting profession.
Another way to abutment the apprenticeship of aerosol painters is BASF’s all-around STAMPP program, an internationally connected one-year training for new automotive refinishing technicians, conducted in affiliation with called abstruse schools and anatomy shops. The success of the affairs was approved at WorldSkills as this year’s gold badge winner, Yingcheng Jiang, studies at the Hangzhou Technician Institute in China, which alien STAMPP in 2016.
Sustainable way of alive honoredAt the WorldSkills finals, all aerosol painters alone formed with articles from the Glasurit portfolio, BASF’s exceptional automotive refinish brand. Prior to the competition, they had been accomplished on how to use Glasurit and appropriately knew the allowances of the acceptable waterborne technology of 90 Line.
During the competition, the board additionally paid abutting absorption to how acceptable the participants’ access to anniversary assignment was. For his performance, Maurus von Holzen from Switzerland accustomed a adapted sustainability accolade because, amid added things, he acclimated beneath actual than the added finalists.
René Lang, Vice President Sales Management Automotive Refinish EMEA at BASF’s Coatings division, accepted the participants’ attitude appear sustainability: “For BASF and the Glasurit brand, apprenticeship and environmentally affable behavior go duke in hand. Alone with the adapted ability can we actualize acquaintance for the affair and accomplish acceptable choices.”
“By selecting the appropriate products, abbreviation decay and re-using materials, adolescent aerosol painters are in a position to amalgamate ecological eyes and bread-and-butter success. We are appreciative that the participants not alone presented their abstruse abilities during WorldSkills, but were additionally able to appearance that they accept the accent of a acceptable way of working,” added Lang.
About BASF’s Coatings divisionThe Coatings analysis of BASF is a all-around able in the development, assembly and business of avant-garde and acceptable automotive OEM and refinish coatings, as able-bodied as adorning paints. We actualize avant-garde achievement solutions and drive performance, architecture and new applications to accommodated our partners’ needs all over the world. BASF shares skills, ability and assets of interdisciplinary and all-around teams for the account of barter by operating a collaborative arrangement of sites in Europe, North America, South America and Asia Pacific. In 2016, the Coatings analysis accomplished all-around sales of about €3.2 billion.
In 2016, BASF acquired Chemetall, a arch all-around supplier of activated apparent treatments for metal, artificial and bottle substrates in a advanced ambit of industries and end markets. With this amplification in portfolio, BASF becomes a added complete band-aid provider for coatings.
Solutions above your acuteness – Coatings by BASF. For added advice about the Coatings analysis of BASF and its products, visit www.basf-coatings.com.
