high-performance solutions
when there’s much at stake.”
Tasked with applying
Peter Wurl, Trapp Infra’s managing di-
rector, said, “convincing a customer like
the Berliner Wasserbetriebe is not an easy
task, but the many advantages of Abcite
– its performance, its certification, as well
as its many worldwide references – made
it an obvious choice. I am sure this is just
the first chapter of a long success story
for Abcite in Germany.”
In use for over 20 years, Abcite has
been controlled, tested and certified to the
most stringent standards for contact with
drinking water, not only in Germany,
but also in Belgium, France, the UK and
in North America, Australia and New
Zealand. Its unique thermoplastic tech-
nology creates an impermeable barrier,
offers durable adhesion to steel, excellent
chemical resistance and minimizes bacte-
rial growth as well as friction loss. Abcite
provides outstanding impact resistance,
which helps to prevent handling damage,
and can be used to coat both the interior
and exterior of pipes in one single coating
step. Abcite is robust and simple to apply,
as it does not require a primer.
Axalta Coating Systems
to Support Children’s
Education in Gujarat, India
Axalta Coating Systems has partnered
with Akshaya Patra’s food program for
the second consecutive year to provide
better education by serving meals to
children in the community surrounding Axalta’s Savli manufacturing plant
in Gujarat state. This program aligns
with Axalta’s global corporate social
responsibility (CSR) initiatives to support education and the communities in
which it operates.
Akshaya Patra is the world’s largest
nonprofit mid-day meal program serving
wholesome food to more than 1.6 million
children from 13,210 schools across 11
states in India. Akshaya Patra has dem-
onstrated the merits of its nationally
recognized initiatives by increasing school
enrollment and attendance, decreasing
the drop-out rate, and enabling social-
ization among children, all results of im-
proved nutrition.
“Axalta is committed to support
our local communities,” said Vinay
Rajadhyaksha, Managing Director of
Axalta’s operations in India. “We are
proud to partner with Akshaya Patra
once again and support the NGO’s vision
of ensuring no child is deprived of edu-
cation due to hunger. Reaching children
in Gujarat with nutritious meals through
Akshaya Patra helps us give back to soci-
ety in the best possible manner.”
“We are committed to providing nutritious mid-day meals to children so that
they can attend school and build a better
life. Support from partners such as Axalta
Coating Systems helps us to empower
more children with access to education
by providing them a nourishing meal. We
call upon more companies to follow suit
and join the movement to eliminate classroom hunger and aid education,” said
Sundeep Talwar, Chief Marketing Officer
of Akshaya Patra.
Spies Hecker Wins British
Repairers’ Choice Award
for Most Highly-Rated Paint
Brand
Spies Hecker, one of the global refinish brands of Axalta Coating Systems
has won the British Repairers’ Choice
Award for most highly-rated paint brand
of the year 2016 – 2017. The honor
was announced at the ABP (Auto Body
Professionals) Night of Knights annual
awards ceremony held on November 16,
2016 at Resorts World, Birmingham.
In this year, the eighth of the awards,
a record number of repairers across the
UK voted for their most highly-rated
paint brand. The voters were asked to
rate the brands from excellent to very
poor. Seventy-eight percent of Spies
Hecker’s ratings were either excellent
or very good, clinching them the title.
The field was open to any paint brand,
and four brands, including Spies Hecker,
were shortlisted.
ABP, founded in 2004, has a mem-
bership of over 2,500 body shop
professionals, insurers, accident manag-
ers, suppliers and trade bodies.
PPG Completes Colorful
Communities Project at
Academy Prep; Donates
$20,000
As part of its global community engagement efforts, PPG has announced
the completion of a COLORFUL
COMMUNITIES project that helped
to brighten and revitalize classrooms at Academy Prep Center of St.
Petersburg, Florida. In addition, the
PPG Foundation donated $20,000 on
behalf of PPG’s architectural coatings business to support the school’s
science, technology, engineering and
math programs.
Approximately 10 local volunteers
from PPG and Lowe’s Commercial
Painting used 25 gallons of PPG
PAINTS™ products to beautify three of
the school’s classrooms. Academy Prep
students voted to select the new paint
colors for creative learning environments,
and they created and presented a colorful banner commemorating the project to
display in the school.
The $20,000 PPG Foundation grant
enables Academy Prep, which is a private, nonprofit organization, to purchase
a well-known science, technology, engineering and math curriculum and provide training for teachers on the program,
along with providing an after-school
robotics program to students. This supports the school’s mission to inspire and
empower students qualifying for need-based scholarships to become future community leaders through a rigorous middle
school program coupled with ongoing
graduate support.
“We are very thankful for the generosity of PPG and the PPG Foundation as
they support our efforts to create more
colorful learning experiences and brighter futures for our students,” said Gina
Burkett, head of Academy Prep Center
of St. Petersburg. “The colorful PPG
Paints products beautifully refreshed the
important spaces where our students
learn and spend much of their time. And,
like PPG, we believe in empowering today’s students with education to inspire
