More than 30 professionals from the collision repair industry recently attended a paint clinic for Axalta Coating Systems at Morrisville State’s auto body facility.
Axalta Coating Systems provided opportunities for product representatives and others in the collision repair industry to paint, blend and test their newest product, Cromax Mosaic, in the college’s Garmat paint booth.
The soon-to-be-launched Cromax Mosaic product, which was spotlighted at last year’s SEMA Show New Products Showcase, is a solvent-borne, VOC-compliant basecoat system.
“We are one of the first ones to have a commercially acceptable basecoat system like this,” said Cary Bikowsky, business development manager for Axalta Coating Systems.
Added John Ackermann, business development manager for Keystone Automotive in Albany, “The new paint is pretty cool and is going to give us options we didn’t have before, which is just what we need. I am very impressed with Morrisville having a facility like this, offering both two- and four-year auto degrees, and providing this training to the public."
Axalta Coating Systems, formerly DuPont, has partnered with the college for the past eight years, utilizing the auto body building as a training facility and holding an average of six classes per year.
“The (Morrisville) instructors and facility are great, offering us flexibility and a great location,” Bikowsky said.
Added Ackermann, “This (auto body) facility is a great training center. We normally would have to travel to Pennsylvania for something like this.”
The college also hosts corporate-level and local training for collision repair technicians and paint, body and equipment suppliers, as well as an annual training fair for BOCES instructors in June.
Auto faculty and students from the college also represent Morrisville at the SEMA Show.
Morrisville’s automotive facilities include an award-winning automotive technology building with nine state-of-the art laboratories, a showroom, and an auto body building with a lab containing superior air purification equipment, a laser device for measuring frame damage and a Garmat Paint Station.
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