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This month we have received in Sagola the visit of Spekter, our distrubutor in Slovenia. A team of 6 commercial technicians came from Zalec together with Eldar Osmancevic, the Commercial Director, with the purpose of visiting facilities, knowing the range of products and meet Sagola team.

The beginning of the visit took place in Sagola manufacturing facilities and then they continued with a presentation of the range of products for bodyshop in the training center. They finnaly visit some local Body Shops where they could check the high performance and quality of Sagola painting equipments.

It was a great pleasure to welcome such a motivated and profesional team. 

Sagola was present at this year´s Autoprof trade show in Gorinchem (Holland) from 12 to 14 of February, an unavoidable event for industry professional in The Netherlands.

During this time, Sagola and its Dutch distributor Imbema Rhiwa, had the chance to show the latest product novelties to close to 10.000 professionals that visited the event.

Sagola not only displayed the top of the line spraying guns, air filters and pressure pots amongst other, but also took part in the product live demonstrations showing the excellence in the spraying performance of its spray guns.

This exhibition was also the perfect chance to show the latest Sagola limited edition, 4600 Scrambler, whose image was leading the booth design.

This February, SAGOLA has participated in the training conferences for a large number of PPG Refinish technicians from Spain and Portugal. Training was held in PPG headquarters in Rubí (Barcelona) for PPG and NEXA technicians with two main objectives:

• Industrial application equipment, focus on the industrial vehicle painting. Identification, selection and operation of high production painting system (Pressure pot, DM, Mixed, Airless ...), more suitable for every need of the new industrial paint lines PPG and NEXA. High performance and large surfaces spray guns (4600 Xtreme) for its main finishing products.

• Compressed air, its importance in a perfect finish: a deep analysis with the experienced team of technicians of the brand. The importance of air installations, cleaning degrees, relative humidity, temperatures and dew point, both in the air compressed line and in the application booth, as well as in the piece or vehicle to be painted. Main air treatment and control equipment that PPG already has in the booths of its modern facilities in Rubí.

Sagola wants to thank PPG again for the opportunity of sharing experiences and knowledge with their technical team and for the cooperation, interest and motivation shown by both the organizing team (Jordi, Carles, Manel) and all the participating technicians; a pleasant experience that we hope will be repeated.

Last December, Sagola Technical Team visited the paint manufacturer Lechler in Italy in order to present the last spray guns launches; 4600 Xtreme, 3300 GTO, 3300 GTO CAR and Mini Xtreme

During the training sessions held at the Lechler headquarters in Como, some tests were run with the new Sagola spray guns using Lechler water-based colors of the Hydrofan range and the Macrofan clearcoats, among other products of the manufacturer.

The application tests were successful and the homologation of the products was fixed in the new application guide with the aim of achieving the best finishes and the most productive processes for the workshop.

At the beginning of last December, the technical team of SAGOLA, had the opportunity to visit to the central facilities that BASF has in Guadalajara.

The purpose of this trip was to participate in several training sessions, focus on both BASF internal technicians (from their CV line and their BCS) and technicians from their main Distributors in the National market.

The training was very specific, focused on painting systems with its CV line for commercial and industrial vehiclespainting.

Sagola provided an important training course covering both the practical and theoretical aspectson the advantages, uses and performances of the different industrial spray systems (aerographic,airless and mixed).

Also,we had the opportunity to look for the best combinations and equipment settings for the application of the main CV products of BASF. All the technicians in both sessions had the opportunity to apply primers, basecoats and single stage with the fastest equipment and the best performance in each case.

The SAGOLA 4100 Xtreme Pressure, was tested with several versions of the hybrid aircups (Supervit and EPA), the very high-speedones (777 and 765) and the HVLP of maximum performance.

These kinds of actions reinforce even more, the great collaboration that, for decades now, BASF and SAGOLA have also maintained in their different industrial divisions. We want to show BASF team gratitude for counting on Sagola for this special training and for the implication, interest and professionalism shown during those days, both by the organizing team (Rocío, Sergio and Sebastián) and by all the technicians. A very successful action that we are willing to repeat in the near future.

As an environment-conscious company, Sagola will start a new action that reduces the quantity of paper included in the product packaging.

Instead of the instruction booklet, Sagola products will include a leaflet that will explain to the user how to get the instruction manual trough computer support.

After scanning the QR code on the leaflet, the user will be directed to Sagola URL where the manuals and exploded view drawings of each product can be found searching by code or word. Another way to get them is directly visiting http://sagola.com/en/manuals-explodes

Manuals will not only be downloaded, but also online viewed to make it easier to find them anywhere and anytime and being a way of minimizing the negative impact to the environment.

Last November from 20 to 22nd , it took place a training course in the facilities of our distributor, Roberlo do Brasil. It was focus on Sagola whole range of Industrial equipment for Industrial line, in order to show both the low pressure pneumatic equipment -Aerographic- and the high pressure pneumatic equipment -Mixed and Airless-, as well as the different spray guns and accessories.

Several South America’s Roberlo subsidiaries such as Roberlo do Brasil, Roberlo Argentina and Roberlo Peru attend to the training seminar. It was also attended by Renpar S.A. (Paraguay), and some Brazilian dealers.

Sagola wants to sincerely thank the interest and enthusiasm shown by all attendees in this training action and special thanks to Albert Juher (Roberlo and Disolac Director for USA and Latin America), Marco Pargas (Roberlo do Brasil Director), Diego Lunar (Roberlo Argentina Director) and Angel Magín (Disolac Technician Manager).

Sagola's technical team has travelled to Thailand and Malaysia this month to provide Axalta's technical staff and sales teama training course. 

The training course has been organized in two parts; one of them more theoretical for a better knowledge of the products of the Sagola Refinish Catalogue and to show the last novelties and another part, a practical training in which they had the chance to test some products for different applications. 

We would like to thank to both Axalta Thailand and Malaysia for its warm welcome and the interest shown in these training actions.

Last October, it was a great pleasure for Sagola to show the whole range of Sagola spray guns to the Cesvi Mexico technical staff.

The first part of the training included a review of the whole range of products and the importance of the whole painting process:

• Surface preparation
• Air quality and compressed air systems.
• Suitable painting equipment for each painting step.

The second part of the training was focused on test different Sagola products so the technicians will familiarize with them.

The purpose of this training seminar is to share the knowledge with the automotive refinish market to develop the level of specialization among professional painters in Mexico.

Thank you to the Cesvi Mexico team for the wonderful enthusiasm and support along the training seminar.