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Last months were held the spanish regional editions of Automotive Refinishing Worldskills as a first step to reach the next 2019 WorldSkills.  The regional winner of each category will have the chance to compete in the SpainSkills (Madrid 2019) and win their place to represent Spain in the 45^th World Skills competition in Kazan, Russia.

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These championships will gather students to promote training and professional skills. This kind of events also provides a unique chance to network with the industry and educational experts.Sagola, as a company aware of the support needed by future professionals in the automotive refinishing sector, has sponsored these events.

Sagola has cooperated in the CatSkills 2018 held on May 9 at the Caparrella Institute in Lleida. Adrià Sanahuja from the Caparrella Institute won the Car Painting category and Gabriel Son from the Technical School Girona did the same for the Bodywork category.

The Andalucía Skills 2018were held in April at the El Carmen campus of the University of Huelva and honored with the visit of a special guest, Queen Letizia who was interested in the different professional careers in which the students tested their skills and abilities.

The Andalucía Skills 2018 gold medal in Car Painting was won by Alvaro Velasco of the San Jose de la Rinconada Institute in Seville.

Congratulations to the winners for their talent and skill and good luck for the following stages of this competition.

Last May the 8^th, Sagola welcomed the visit of some executives from BS (Bemal Systme), the paint manufacturer, in order to show them our most important products and to set an agreement for technical cooperation.

Bemal Systeme has a wide range of products for automotive refinishing such as fillers, primers, clearcoats or waterborne basecoats, all of them made in BS facilities in Mengibar, Jaen.

This was the beginning of an alliance between BS and Sagola that will surely be very positive for both companies.

Last May 4 Sagola held a training course about refinishing products for La Madrileña-Perchan in the distributor´s  facilities in Huelva.

The course was attended by the sales manager, the store manager and the sales team of La Madrleña –Perchan  in Huelva  and  was taught by David Cabeza, Sagola Sales Area Manager.

It was a very useful course about the main characteristics of new spray guns  3300 GTO, Classic Pro XD and Classic Lux and a guide to identify the different nozzles for the 4600 Xtreme and its applications. There was also time to talk about  the air filter systems Sagola 5000 and 4000 and the new air quality tester  for an effective detection of alterations in the air.

We want to thank La Madrileña-Perchan for the warm welcome to their facilities and the interest in these training actions.

The national sales team and the technical department of Sagola have developed during this month a great variety of training actions for our distributors and customers in Spain. These training sessions are divided into both theoretical and practical content focus on a correct choice, adjustment and maintenance of the most suitable equipment for main applications in bodyshop, industry and wood sectors.

For the bodyshop sector, it has been carried out a training course and product presentation for Fondomovil team in Arganda del Rey and Vallesanauto in Sabadell, showing them the latest products in 2018 catalogue.

In the industrial sector a course was organized for Maranges in Cerdanyola del Valles and in Sagola training center it was held a specific course for the wood sector with Argandeña from Arganda del Rey and Representaciones Suarez from Vigo.

To all of them, thank you very much for the trust you have placed in Sagola and the interest shown in these actions.

Last March it was offered in the Sagola Training Centerthe specialization course in Industrial Painting Equipment to Industrial Comercial Santa Adelaida from Peru and Distribuidora El Pacifico from Guatemala.

It was a 5 day intensive training that began the 5 of March with theoretical and practical content of industrial equipment, specifications, use and maintenance of low pressure pneumatic equipment - aerographic -, high pressure pneumatic equipment - mixed and airless-, and different models of spray guns and accessories.

We want to thank our distributors for their great interest and we congratulate them for the implementation of demo sessions in their respective countries.

In the image: Rene Lavado from Industrial Comercial Santa Adelaida, Walfer Escobar and Marlon Garnica from Distribuidora El Pacifico and Dani Cervera and Diego Fernández from Sagola.

On the 6^th of April was held the first edition of the Painting Cars Skills; a contest for bodywork students in Catalonia organized by the Salesians School of San Vicenç dels Horts (Barcelona) and sponsored by Sagola.

The rest of the students have the chance to participate in an aerography workshop with the artists of MaM Paint Moto.

After several hours of nerves on edge, the expected delivery of prizes arrived with a first place for Gali Hasan of Salesianos Sant Vicenç dels Horts, followed by Óscar Salido of the Center Tècnic del Vallès and Tania Doménech of the IES Pere Martell of Tarragona.

Congratulations to the winners and to the organizers and participants for the illusion and delivery in this first edition that will surely be the beginning of many more.

Last March Sagola held a training course in Fondomovil, a paint and car accessories distributor located in Arganda del Rey (Madrid)

The commercial and technical staff of Fondomovil took part in this training course held on March 16 at the paint distributor facilities where the new Sagola products were shown.

We would like to thank to Fondomovil team for its warm welcome and the interest shown in these training actions.

Cornwell is a family owned company, that started manufacturing tools in the early 1900s.

Today it has more than 650 franchisees or independent tool dealers around the US market, supplying not only these mentioned tools, but also Sagola spraying guns.

Cornwell organize every year the Tool Rally and Sagola was present at this year event in Las Vegas during 5 and 6 of April and Sagola products were displayed through local distributor Roberlo USA.The show was vastly visited by more than 400-500 franchisees around the nation.

As part of the experience, the visitors had the chance not only to see the already well-known top of the line spraying gun by Sagola, the 4600 Xtreme, but also the newly launched 3300GTO and Classic Pro XD.The feedback was excellent and we look forward to working on a closer collaboration with Cornwell.

Sagola would like to thank not to all the dealers that stopped by the booth, but also to Cornwell Quality Tools for hosting such a professional event.

In the picture: Pat Larson in representation of Roberlo USA amongst other brands and Denis Laburu from Sagola HQ.

Autotechnica is the biggest Benelux trade fair for automotive professionals; it is a biennial event organized in Brussels (Belgium).

2018 Autotechnica was held in Brussels Exhibition Centre from 25 to 28 of March.

It was for the first time to see Sagola at this show through its local distributor, Imbema Rhiwa NV.

The visitors had the chance to see in-situ part of its widely known product line. The 4600 Xtreme, which is the most incredible piece of machinery ever produced to spraying paint, to the next in line, 3300GTO and Mini Xtreme.