10 Jul 2006
Leaders from Shanghai Council of National People’s Congress visit Joint Collision & Paints Training Centre of PPG and Shanghai Communication School
(July 10th， 2006--Shanghai China)Recently, more than 30 Shanghai Municipal Government leaders visited Shanghai Communication School to investigate vocational education development and open practical training situation. They were Mr. Zhou Mu Yao, Wang Pei Sheng, deputy directors of Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee, Mr. Shen Xiao Ming, director of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, Mr. Zhu Jun Yi, director of Shanghai Municipal Labor and Social Security Bureau, Ms. Xia Xiu Rong, member of Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee and chairman of Shanghai Municipla NPC's Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee, Mr. Liu Shi Cai, Party Secretary and chairman of director of Shanghai Transportation (Group) Co., Ltd. Shortly, a special report on this was made as well.
Leaders visited joint collision & paints training centre on the first floor of the Automotive practical training centre with school leaders Mr. Chen Long Wei, Bao Xian Ju and Lin Xiao Rong. This training centre is a joint construction between Shanghai Communication School and PPG Industries. PPG Industries is a global leader and manufacturer of professional Automotive Paints and Cryogenic Refinish. PPG Industries actively participates and responds to the National Shortage of personnel training project. It positively cooperated with Shanghai Communication School to launch this project. The layout of training centre was specially designed by PPG expert Mr. Hugh O’Neill from Australia to qualify with the most update international spray flow process. It has most update, advanced and complete equipments and products for color matching, spray and finish compared with the same kind of Schools in China.
During the visit, leaders gave full recognition to both Shanghai Communication School and PPG Industries. They praised the concept of joint education and success it made. With the guidance and supports of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Transportation Group, both school and enterprise set promoting employment as key point of education, through close cooperations, joint education fully created strong professional brands and cultivated qualified skill-based talents to society and enterprises. Leaders think co-operations between school and enterprise is one of the important development of vocation education and encourage consistent actions.
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About PPG：
PPG Industries Inc. was founded in 1883 in Pittsburgh, USA. As a global manufacturing enterprise, it produces and sells coatings, glass, fiber glass, and chemicals and holds a leading position in the above areas. Up to now, PPG has set up more than 108 production facilities that employ approximately 34,800 employees in 21 countries. PPG has been listed on Fortune 500 for 50 years and is world’s leading transportation coatings manufacturer, as well as World’s leading manufacturer of Industrial, aerospace and packaging coatings. According to Fortune, PPG ranked No. 1 in the “Global Most Admired”, chemical industries. For 2003 and 2004, PPG Tianjin was chosen as 10 of the“Best Employer in China” by Hewitt Consulting Firm and Harvard Business Weekly.
In China, PPG produces and sells seven major products, which includes automotive coatings, industrial coatings, automotive refinishing coatings, packaging coatings, aerospace coatings, architecture coatings, and fiber glass. There are 5 plants in Tianjin, Suzhou and Kunshan, and trading company, labs and training centers in Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Nanjing. Now PPG has about 2000 employees in China.
In China, the main customers of PPG Automotive coatings include GM, Benz, Nanjing Iveco and Hainan Mazda. As for packaging coatings, PPG deals business with Coca Cola, Pepsi, Lu Lu, etc. PPG provides aerospace coatings to Boeing, Air China, Shanghai Air, Southern Air, etc. One thing that is especially meaningful is that Air China uses PPG coatings for all of its 3 color planes used for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Also, PPG provides its industrial coatings to Haier, Nokia, Motorola and Dell and its architectural coatings are widely used in many well-known buildings such as Tian Anmen square, Beijing airport, Shanghai Jinmao Building and Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower.
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