BASF Automotive Refinish Coatings

🌟 Join us, as we celebrate #WorldYouthSkillsDay2024 with passion and motivation! 🎉 At BASF, we place strategic importance in creating opportunities to ensure young talent can achieve their full potential, and attain new agile skills for a sustainable future. 🌍 This year is very special for BASF, as with our premium brand, Glasurit, we will welcome #WorldskillsLyon starting September 10th as the official exclusive global partner. 🏆 We welcome 24 painters from around the world to compete in a one-of-a-kind world-class competition that will provide a global stage for young refinish talent. "At Glasurit, and especially with WorldSkills, we empower and inspire the next generation of young painters to build and continuously develop their careers in spray-painting with the best training available and supported by the best experts. 💪 This year, we have stepped up our promise with our most advanced Glasurit 100 Line and AraClass solutions which will provide an outstanding experience for our young talents," said Chris Titmarsh, Global Senior Vice President, BASF Automotive Refinish Coatings Solutions. BASF Coatings 🌟 #WorldYouthSkillsDay #WSC #WSGlasurit2024 #TalentsForFuture #Glasurit #100line

🏁 Two months to the WorldSkills Lyon Finals! 🌍🚗 where Glasurit as the global exclusive partner with #100Line welcomes the best automotive refinish talents from 24 countries competing in the ‘Olympic of Skills’ event in the car painting category.    Over the last 2 weeks, #Glasurit at it’s Refinish Competence Center in Münster hosted the final training open to competitors and WorldSkills experts from Barbados, China, USA, Japan.     All finalists and WorldSkills experts were given the opportunity to be trained by our Glasurit experts via a series of Glasurit Refinity Webinars, online training courses and select exclusive training courses at our worldclass Refinish Competence Centers running up to the WorldSkills Competition.    “We are extremely happy to see great skills set and that our paint talents who are even not used to work with Glasurit #100Line, learn so quickly and are excited about the product and car refinish technology. We, the Trainer Michael Irving and I would like to thank WorldSkills teams for their initiative for these excellent training days in Muenster”, says Andreas Jansen, Global Trainer from BASF.  BASF Coatings #WSGlasurit2024 #WSC2024 #Glasurit100Line #WorldSkills #AutomotiveRefinish #CarPainting #Glasurit #SustainableTraining

🚀 Exciting news from #SkillsUSA today! 🎉 Our very own Jamie Cowell has been recognized with the Spirit Award 🏆 from the Automotive Refinishing Technology SkillsUSA team. The Spirit Award is given to SkillsUSA ART committee members who go above and beyond to engage the industry talents and partners focused on creating the #TalentForTomorrow. Let's congratulate Jamie on this well-deserved recognition! 🎊👏 #SkillsUSAChampionships #AutomotiveRefinishingTechnology 🎉 Congratulations to support SkillsUSA competition. Preparing #WSC2024 #WSGlasurit2024 WorldSkills with #Glasurit #100Line in September in France, we are proud to support competitions like SkillsUSA to sharpen the students' skills through competitions on the local, regional, and state levels. ✨🌍

🌟 Three days in Mexico City with the latest BASF Automotive Refinish updates and the most passionate audience ever! 🌟 ✨ CESVI Pro Street Expo 2024 is the annual, most important automotive aftermarket industry event in Mexico and LATAM, where BASF Automotive Refinish Coatings took stage and showcased its latest innovations, expert technical training from R-M Global and Glasurit flooded with passion from ambassadors Franky Mostro (https://lnkd.in/e89z4NkX) and Serlap Next Level for #RMpaint, and Zaky Garage for #Glasurit. 🚗 Our national, regional, and global leadership teams Chris Titmarsh, Joel Johnson, and Mariano Pereyra joined in on the excitement where we took the opportunity to introduce the industry’s first RMC1000 one-coat clearcoat and exclusive R-M Premium Partners loyalty program for our body shops customers. To top it all off, Franky Mostro’s eye-opening “Pink Panther,” a hot pink Dodge Challenger from 1970, took us for a wild and exciting ride. 🚀💥 Kudos to María Fernanda Ruiz and Sofia Kandraski for making it all happen! #Customernetwork #PremiumPartners #RMpaint #RMC1000 #FIVA #classiccars #Glasurit 

Autonomous driving, especially advanced sensor technology, are just a few trends shaping the evolution in the automotive industry. 🚗 Partially thanks to rapidly evolving sensor technologies like #RADAR, #LiDAR, and others, aiding to increased levels of automation and enhancing road safety. 🌟 At BASF Automotive Refinish Coatings, we have RADAR ready premium paint solutions from #Glasurit #RM adhering to the stringent guidelines set by OEM manufacturers for the highest quality and safest repairs. 🎨✨ We cannot emphasize enough how body shops will need to continue to tap into an expert network, work with high quality trusted brands to ensure they can properly handle and address radar-related aspects during collision repairs, restoring original function and safety at an optimal level. 🔧🛠️

BASF Coatings’ global leadership team members Uta Holzenkamp and Susann Kluge, visited Shanghai’s WorldSkills Museum last week, the first museum in the world dedicated to vocational skills. During their trip they:     🤝 Were welcomed by Director Du Juan and Deputy Director Pan Yu.     🔍 Exchanged insights on BASF's dedication to sustainability, efforts in automotive refinish, and initiatives to attract young talent to the field in order to address industry shortages.     💡 Listened in on Director Du Juan's vision for future collaborations, discussing future opportunities like the 2026 WorldSkills Competition in Shanghai.     💼 Participated in the museum's immersive exhibits, including @GLASURIT®’s virtual reality car painting experience, showcasing innovative approaches to skill development. #GLASURIT - BASF Coatings’ premium refinish brand - is the exclusive Global Industry Partner of WorldSkills International and sponsor of #WorldSkills Lyon in France 2024.     🌍 Alongside #GLASURIT, celebrated the upcoming opportunities in store for China as they gear up to host the 2026 International Finals.     Overall, the visit provided BASF Coatings’ global leadership team with an opportunity to learn more about the future of skilled talents and explore potential collaborations to advance vocational skills. This reaffirms our global BASF Coatings team's dedication to building global training networks and sustainable solutions, contributing to the development of a diverse and skilled workforce to jointly empower change for a sustainable today and tomorrow!  #WSGlasurit2024 #Glasurit #100line #WSC2024 

🌏Wrapping up an incredible four days in Australia, where talented painters from Asia showcased their skills in preparation for the WorldSkills International competition in Lyon! 🏆Get a glimpse of the action from the WorldSkills Global Skills Challenge! The Glasurit team from BASF Australia stepped up with expert training and exclusive materials to help refine the skills of all participating spray painters, bringing them one step closer to the international stage in September. Participants from Japan, Korea, UAE, Taipei, and Australia, got to explore the latest in eco-friendly technology with Glasurit's AraClass 🌱EcoBalance products and the #100Line basecoat system. These innovations are not just about achieving beautiful finishes but also about protecting our environment for future generations. #GlobalSkillsChallenge #WorldSkillsAustralia #WorldSkill2024 #WSGlasurit2024 #Refinish #100Line

Let's create a world where nature thrives. There here is no better day than today as the world celebrates #WorldEnvironmentDay. At #basfcoatings, we are committed to making a difference with our sustainable innovations with a focus on climate protection and #ecoeffective-solutions. #100Line #AraClass #Agilis #Pioneerseries leads the way with the lowest VOC in the market. Our passion lies in developing premium refinish solutions that enhance efficiency but priortize sustainability. Let's make the planet greener, one eco-effective solution at a time. #Glasurit #rmpaint

That's a wrap on the Bentley Americas Region Conference! 🎉 BASF Automotive Refinish Coatings proudly hosted this incredible event at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. We brought together the best minds in #Bentley collision repair for two unforgettable days. Collaboration, innovation, and excellence were at the forefront of this conference. Experts from #Bentley and #BASF explored the latest advancements in repair technologies and paint systems, including the award-winning #Glasurit #100Line. 💡🖌️ We also celebrated the best in the business with the prestigious Bentley Shop of the Year Award. Congratulations to Steve Suppe and the entire team at #Holman Lauderdale Collision for their unwavering commitment to excellence and the Bentley brand. 🏆👏 This conference was all about collaboration, strengthening our shared commitment to support the Bentley body shop community. Thank you to everyone who made this event a success! 🤝✨ #BentleyConference #Collaboration #Innovation #Excellence #ShopOfTheYear #100Line #Glasurit #BASFRefinsihAmericas

The thought-leadership conference IBIS Worldwide global summit 2024 concludes today, with leaders and debates tackling topics around the challenges and opportunities in the global collision repair and insurance claims landscape. Let's hear a few words from our BASF leadership team, Chris Titmarsh and Roar Solberg , about what IBIS 2024 was all about, including the hot topics 🔥, and how we can collaborate with our partners, customers, and stakeholders to better support the industry moving forward. Don't forget to add #talent 💪 and #sustainability ♻️ to the conversation. #IBISGlobalSummit2024 #CollisionRepair #InsuranceClaims