Stephen Mills, a Technical Consultant at Crown Paints Limited, UK, explaining a point to participants at the seminar.
Crown Paints Limited has announced a programme to train Ghanaian architectural and industrial painters at its headquarters in the UK.
Bamson Company Limited, local representatives of Crown Paints, made this known at the opening of a two-day decorative coatings (painting) seminar in Accra.
The Managing Director of Bamson Company Limited, Kwame Ofosu Bamfo, said the move was in line with his outfit?s efforts to inject a high-level of professionalism into the painting aspect of Ghana?s housing industry.
The seminar was facilitated by Stephen Mills, a Technical Consultant, who led the discussions and demonstrations, and Jon Dingoor, Commercial Manager, in charge of Export and Licensing at Crown Paints Limited.
Painters from Accra and other parts of the country participated in the seminar.
?The initiative is also to help improve their understanding of the tools of application, the characteristics of substrates (substances that are acted upon by certain organisms), as well as the preparation of surfaces for painting. It also offers painters the opportunity to learn how to apply a wide range of products and understand the application properties. The seminar aims also to build their confidence in offering technical advice in support of Crown brands.?
Participants were introduced to the professional handling, the features and benefits of interior and exterior Crown and Sandtex products such as primers and substrates, undercoats, gloss, emulsions, acrylics etc. during the theory and practical sessions.
?We have equipped them with the skills to identify common problems, recognize paint film defects, as well as the ability to better prepare new or previously painted surfaces among many other professional practices.?
Dingoor introduced the painters to some Crown products.
They included the high build textured paint, which is an advanced decorative and protective textured coating for covering fine cracks and for regulating repaired and uneven surfaces.
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