Coatings World - July 2015

China, which offers specialized training programs to spray painters and process optimization programs to body shops.

General Motors Names
BASF 2014 Supplier of the
Year

BASF received General Motors’ (GM) Supplier of the Year Award for the tenth time in the past 13 years. The award was presented to Joe Schmondiuk, vice president of Global Accounts BASF Corporation, during GM’s annual awards ceremony at Cobo Center in Detroit.

“BASF is pleased to have once again
earned this recognition from GM,” said
Schmondiuk. “It demonstrates the great
commitment and capability of our team
to offer the innovative solutions that GM
needs. We view GM as a key partner in
the automotive industry and are pleased
that we were able to support them on sev-
eral key product launches in 2014.”
BASF’s Coatings division supports
GM by combining modern paint pro-
cesses with special effect pigments and
technologies. BASF offers a broad array
of color solutions and processes that en-
able car makers to improve productivity
and environmental performance.

GM’s Supplier of the Year program began in 1992, and each year a global team of purchasing, engineering, quality, manufacturing and logistics executives determine the winners of the Supplier of the Year Award. Winners represent “World Class” performance leaders in the areas of quality, technology, price and service.

PPG Career Lectures
Provide Guidance for
Chinese College Students

PPG Industries recently hosted a series of career lectures at 11 top universities across China, discussing issues related to future careers and offering tips for job hunting to college students.

Building on years of cooperation with
universities for PPG’s China Scholarship
Program, PPG launched the Career
Lecture series this year to provide guid-
ance for Chinese college students. The
lectures were comprised of two ses-
sions – Professional Experience Sharing
and Job-Seeking Skills Instruction. In
the first session, female PPG executives
shared personal experiences with stu-
dents, addressing concerns about an infe-
rior recruitment environment for female
engineering students and encouraging
students to build confidence to face the
challenges of job hunting. The second ses-
sion, organized by PPG’s partner Career
Intelligence, included workshops on job-
seeking skills. Career Intelligence’s career-
management programs offer university
students in China instruction on creating
resumes and skills for job interviews, en-
abling students to better prepare them-
selves for job-seeking efforts.
“Students in their senior year at uni-
versity need to prepare for the transition
to a work environment,” said Cathy Yan,
PPG general manager, corporate and gov-
ernment affairs, Asia Pacific. “We hope
our tailored training program will help
with their career development. We also
hope it will help attract excellent students
to career opportunities with
PPG.”
Supporting education is an
important part of PPG’s social
responsibility efforts. In addition to pro-
grams for university students in the Asia
Pacific region, PPG has launched pro-
grams for elementary and middle school
students. PPG has hosted a scholarship
program for China’s ten leading universi-
ties for 11 years to support the develop-
ment of chemistry-related disciplines and
enable outstanding students to realize
their potential. PPG also set up an “Eco
Classroom” for local elementary and
middle school students, where they show
and explain to students how a chemical
company operates and share PPG’s envi-
ronmental-protection efforts.
To support its employee diversity,
PPG set up the Women’s Leadership
Council at its Pittsburgh headquarters
in 2001 and established its Asian coun-
cil in 2006. The council works to create

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