Sep 28 2007
BASF Coatings announced today that it is opening a new training center in Shenyang, China, for the company’s refinish coatings product users. The new training center will strengthen BASF Coatings’ competencies in customer training services, and in providing enhanced refinish coatings solutions - high quality products bundled with the best application techniques and training. The new training center will officially open on September 26, under the name of “BASF Refinish Competence Center Shenyang”.
“I believe the opening of our new training center with international standards will have a great impact on China’s refinish coatings industry,” says Hans-Juergen Becker, the head of BASF Coatings International Trade (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. “As the after-sales network of global and local original equipment manufacturers in the country is growing rapidly, establishing the new training center will allow us to further support the professional development of painters and bodyshop staff in China.”
The BASF Refinish Competence Center Shenyang will be located in a new vocational school owned by LiaoNing College of Communication (LNCC), and is based on a cooperation with Shenyang German Academy for Economy and Technology. The contract between BASF and SGA allows BASF to use facilities on a regular and frequent basis and to also provide its trainers to SGA for their independent training.
BASF Coatings currently has training centers in Kunshan, close to Shanghai, and Beijing, China.