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Tareski, Westermann take home Gold medals at Saskatchewan skills competitions
By Mike Davey   Regina, Saskatchewan — April 25, 2016 — Results are in from the Saskatchewan Skills Competition. The annual event typically hosts 30 secondary and 28 post-secondary competitions each year, including Autobody Repair and Car Painting.    This year’s competitions were held at four venues throughout Regina. Autobody Repair and Car Painting took […]
Malisa Collier of Swift Current Comprehensive took the Gold medal in the Car Painting, Secondary competition.
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Axalta “Paint Outside the Can” competition winners announced
By Jeff Sanford Glen Mills, Pennsylvania — October 20, 2015 — Axalta Coating Systems has announced its 2015 Paint Outside the Can contest winners. Professional painters from Canada and the US were invited to unleash their creativity using any Axalta-brand paint to decorate an unused, standard one-gallon paint can. A panel of six celebrity judges […]
Paul Quinn, renowned airbrush and pinstriping artist and instructor in the custom paint industry, served as one of the celebrity judges Quinn is shown here holding Mike “Splash” Burton’s “Paradise Pipeline,” which swept the contest by winning in the categories of Fan Favorite and Celebrity Pick, as well as the Grand Prize.
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Wedge Clamp’s Stat Gun reduces polishing time
By Mike Davey Toronto, Ontario — September 8, 2015 — It’s hot and humid, exactly the opposite of the kind of weather that produces static electricity. Nevertheless, when Roger Turmel of AutoQuip lets a thread go near a recently tacked bumper, there’s enough static to draw and hold the thread to the bumper’s surface. A […]
Roger Turmel of Auto Quip uses the Stat Gun to blow off a bumper. Reducing static decreases polishing time.
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WorldSkills celebrates the power of skills at closing ceremony
São Paulo, Brazil — August 19, 2015 — Following an intense and high spirited 43rd WorldSkills Competition, the Closing Ceremony of WorldSkills São Paulo 2015 brought to an end the largest competition in WorldSkills history and the first ever held in Latin America. Approximately 9,000 competitors, experts, delegates, sponsors, partners and supporters recognized the excellence […]
The closing ceremonies of the 43rd WorldSkills competition in São Paulo, Brazil.
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