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New articles... Appointments Appointments Mike Kaplaniak, Alicia Marsman join Fix Auto; PPG welcomes NANcy NG and Carl GibBons; New marketing director for BASF; J... Read More >> PARTS Connecting the Dots Car-part.com allows parts buyers and sellers to connect instantly. The year was 1996. The Internet was increasing in po ... Read More >> REFINISH Road Warriors DuPont tours the country to educate customers on low VOC coatings. DuPont Performance Coatings took its waterborne show ... Read More >> Volume 6 Issue 1

New articles... PUBLISHER'S MESSAGE We've Only Just Begun We’ve Only Just Begun Five full years of celebrating champions.Anniversaries are more than periodic milestones; they are passages to a future full of possibilities. uring our five years of publishing, we have been committed to making a significant contribution to the industry: a magazine celebrati... Read More >> HEALTH AND SAFETY Negative Reaction What you need to know to protect against isocyanates. Isocyanates are highly reactive chemicals typically found in the hardener of two-part paints and primers and on occasion in some quick drying body fillers. They are present in two forms, monomer and polymer, and both are a health risk when the... Read More >> WHO IS DRIVING Looking Ahead The past can teach us about the future if we know how to read it. I was informed that this issue of the magazine would be a retrospective in honour of the five year anniversary. I was asked to have this column look ahead  to the future as kind of a counterpoint. The industry cannot rest on its laur... Read More >> RECYCLING Creating Disharmony Fragmentation is leaving the industry vulnerable. I recently got to talking with  one of our long time collision repair customers who had some strong things to say. To get at the untarnished truth I promised her total anonymity. For the sake of convenience we will call her Alice.Alice is a very pro... Read More >> WOMAN OF THE INDUSTRY Breaking New Ground Micky Pozsgai puts her shop experience to good use on the road for Sherwin-Williams. Traveling off the beaten path and establishing new ground is nothing new for Maria (Micky) Pozsgai, a Sales Representative for Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes. As a female working in what many      say is ... Read More >> SOAPBOX It seems like it’s imitating the movies. I’m not a real big movie buff but I could not help seeing some similarities to some of the discussions that have taken place at recent CCIF meetings around the country and several Hollywood blockbuster movies that I have had the pleasure of watching over the years. There is a scene in this movi... Read More >>