Supply and Support: Consolidated Dealers donate $50,000 in equipment to Algonquin College autobody apprentices
Ottawa, Ontario — Algonquin College School of Advanced Technology received a donation of $50,000 in equipment from Consolidated Dealers to support autobody and collision damage repair apprentices. Consolidated Dealers’ Ottawa office and warehouse location has been a longtime supporter of the Autobody and Collision Damage Repair apprenticeship program with donations of tools, equipment and consumable […]
Algonquin auto body students offered insight on future of collision repair industry
By Mike Pickford Ottawa, Ontario — August 17, 2016 — With much of Canada’s collision repair industry currently suffering through a slight skilled-labour shortage, there has been an added impetus placed on transitioning promising potential professionals out of the classroom and into the work place. Keeping with what has become an annual trend, post-secondary institutions […]
Pembroke Auto Parts hosts aluminum clinic at Algonquin College
Pembroke, Ontario — June 25, 2015 Owners, managers and techs in the Ottawa area had chance recently to get up to speed on aluminum welding techniques when Algonquin College and Pembroke Auto Parts hosted a clinic to teach the new techniques necessary to repair aluminum bodied vehicles. Aluminum welding and repair techniques are looming large […]
