employees and currently has
eight apprentices working on
site. This project continues this
tradition whilst also providing
the candidates with valuable business
experience that will give them a competitive advantage in their future careers.”
The partnership is a result of a long
term relationship between Manchester
Communication Academy and HMG
Paints. In October 2013, HMG supplied the school with 100 literss of
colored decorative emulsion paint for
the Harpurhey and North Manchester
Handmade Film Festival. The paint
was used by Academy staff and students to create a colorful Manchester
street scene that provided attendees
with a nostalgic trip down memory
lane. Steve Taylor, Lead Professional in
Careers and Partnerships at Manchester
Communication Academy, believes
similar pioneering partnerships could
become an established program nationwide. “The project has been fantastic
for the students, as it has allowed them
to take their classroom skills into work-place scenarios and has also helped
inform their decisions about a future
career. Partnerships of this kind are in
sync with the government’s educational
objectives and offer significant benefits
to businesses, schools, students, local
communities and the UK economy.”
Hemmelrath Opens New
Location in Russia
Hemmelrath Lackfabrik GmbH founded the company’s first Russian branch,
Hemmelrath RUS, in Nizhny Novgorod.
With the new location, Hemmelrath
opens up the Russian OEM market for
itself and lays the foundation for further expansion of its market activities in
Central and Eastern Europe.
With this strategic investment,
Hemmelrath underlines the significance
of the rapid-growth market Russia, where
the high quality automotive coatings of
the Bavarian manufacturer continue to
gain importance. The new location in
Nizhny Novgorod will initially serve to
better attend to the Russian car market,
but for the future, the coatings manufacturer is already planning to gradually increase the degree of localization and to
eventually establish its own local production facilities.
For Hemmelrath, the decision to establish a site in Russia is the logical consequence resulting from the ever-increasing
demand in Eastern Europe and the desire
to fully meet the specific requirements of
the Russian market.
PPG Helps Draft China CSR
Evaluation Criteria
PPG Industries recently attended a cere-
mony at the Diaoyutai State Guest House
in Beijing to celebrate release of the first
China CSR Evaluation Criteria by the
China Enterprise Evaluation Association
and the School of Social Sciences,
Tsinghua University. PPG also partici-
pated in the process of drafting the new
corporate social responsibility standards.
More than 30 government officials and
experts, including Zhang Laiming, vice
director of the Development Research
Center of the State Council, and Hou
Yunchun, researcher of Development
Research Center of the State Council,
member of National Committee of
Chinese People’s Political Consultative
Conference, president of the Enterprise
Evaluation Association, attended the ceremony. Cathy Yan, PPG general manager,
corporate and government affairs, Asia
Pacific, received a certificate there recognizing PPG’s contribution to the criteria.
She also was appointed a reviewer for
the CSR Review Committee of the China
Enterprise Evaluation Association, and
she and 10 other corporate representatives and government officials together
unveiled the AAA sign of China CSR
Evaluation.
The China CSR Evaluation Criteria
are based on experience and best practice
in both China and other countries, and
they took nearly two years to establish.
As the first authoritative system for scientific evaluation of corporate social
UV Cured Adhesives Used to Create Art
Sidney Hutter is an artist who uses UV
cured adhesives to create beautiful glass
sculptures. Hutter has developed his
sculpting process on his own. The artist’s
system starts with using UVP BP100 UV
lights for spot curing. He takes two pieces
of cleaned glass and then applies the ad-
hesives to one piece and positions the
other piece on top. After the adhesive is
spread evenly and fixed in place, he uses a
modified UVP BP100 light to cure the ad-
hesive. After spot curing the glass he then
cures the adhesives with a Loctite 7400,
a 25-milliwatt-per-centimeter-sqaured
power bulb. For his pieces, Hutter uses
Dymax Light Weld GR212A, a medium
viscosity crystal clear UV curing adhe-
sive and GR217A, a higher viscosity
UV adhesive.
“Over the years, I have used machines
and materials that have been specifically
developed for my work to create sculp-
tures,” Hutton said. “I use cold-working
techniques: cutting, stacking and lami-
nating sheets of glass to create volumet-
ric forms. My interest in technological
advancements of various formulations of
ultraviolet adhesives, dyes and pigments
lead to the incorporation of pieces with
an amazing spectrum of color.”
The artwork can be viewed at
www.sidneyhutter.com.
