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The national sales team and the technical department of Sagola have developed during this month a great variety of training actions for our distributors and customers in Spain. These training sessions are divided into both theoretical and practical content focus on a correct choice, adjustment and maintenance of the most suitable equipment for main applications in bodyshop, industry and wood sectors.

For the bodyshop sector, it has been carried out a training course and product presentation for Fondomovil team in Arganda del Rey and Vallesanauto in Sabadell, showing them the latest products in 2018 catalogue.

In the industrial sector a course was organized for Maranges in Cerdanyola del Valles and in Sagola training center it was held a specific course for the wood sector with Argandeña from Arganda del Rey and Representaciones Suarez from Vigo.

To all of them, thank you very much for the trust you have placed in Sagola and the interest shown in these actions.

Last March it was offered in the Sagola Training Centerthe specialization course in Industrial Painting Equipment to Industrial Comercial Santa Adelaida from Peru and Distribuidora El Pacifico from Guatemala.

It was a 5 day intensive training that began the 5 of March with theoretical and practical content of industrial equipment, specifications, use and maintenance of low pressure pneumatic equipment - aerographic -, high pressure pneumatic equipment - mixed and airless-, and different models of spray guns and accessories.

We want to thank our distributors for their great interest and we congratulate them for the implementation of demo sessions in their respective countries.

In the image: Rene Lavado from Industrial Comercial Santa Adelaida, Walfer Escobar and Marlon Garnica from Distribuidora El Pacifico and Dani Cervera and Diego Fernández from Sagola.

On the 6^th of April was held the first edition of the Painting Cars Skills; a contest for bodywork students in Catalonia organized by the Salesians School of San Vicenç dels Horts (Barcelona) and sponsored by Sagola.

The rest of the students have the chance to participate in an aerography workshop with the artists of MaM Paint Moto.

After several hours of nerves on edge, the expected delivery of prizes arrived with a first place for Gali Hasan of Salesianos Sant Vicenç dels Horts, followed by Óscar Salido of the Center Tècnic del Vallès and Tania Doménech of the IES Pere Martell of Tarragona.

Congratulations to the winners and to the organizers and participants for the illusion and delivery in this first edition that will surely be the beginning of many more.

Last March Sagola held a training course in Fondomovil, a paint and car accessories distributor located in Arganda del Rey (Madrid)

The commercial and technical staff of Fondomovil took part in this training course held on March 16 at the paint distributor facilities where the new Sagola products were shown.

We would like to thank to Fondomovil team for its warm welcome and the interest shown in these training actions.

Cornwell is a family owned company, that started manufacturing tools in the early 1900s.

Today it has more than 650 franchisees or independent tool dealers around the US market, supplying not only these mentioned tools, but also Sagola spraying guns.

Cornwell organize every year the Tool Rally and Sagola was present at this year event in Las Vegas during 5 and 6 of April and Sagola products were displayed through local distributor Roberlo USA.The show was vastly visited by more than 400-500 franchisees around the nation.

As part of the experience, the visitors had the chance not only to see the already well-known top of the line spraying gun by Sagola, the 4600 Xtreme, but also the newly launched 3300GTO and Classic Pro XD.The feedback was excellent and we look forward to working on a closer collaboration with Cornwell.

Sagola would like to thank not to all the dealers that stopped by the booth, but also to Cornwell Quality Tools for hosting such a professional event.

In the picture: Pat Larson in representation of Roberlo USA amongst other brands and Denis Laburu from Sagola HQ.

Autotechnica is the biggest Benelux trade fair for automotive professionals; it is a biennial event organized in Brussels (Belgium).

2018 Autotechnica was held in Brussels Exhibition Centre from 25 to 28 of March.

It was for the first time to see Sagola at this show through its local distributor, Imbema Rhiwa NV.

The visitors had the chance to see in-situ part of its widely known product line. The 4600 Xtreme, which is the most incredible piece of machinery ever produced to spraying paint, to the next in line, 3300GTO and Mini Xtreme.

Last 15 and 16 of March we have received in Sagola the visit of body repair shop professionals from the communities of Navarra and La Rioja.

The visit was one of the activities carried out by these professionals within the Technical Workshops for Bodyshops organized by AD Regenauto in Pamplona. The groups came from Refena (Pamplona) to our facilities to know more about the manufacturing process of our painting equipment.

They visited the areas of manufacturing, quality and warehouse, where they listened to explanations from department heads, and finally, in the training center, they had the opportunity to talk about some of the Sagola products they often use and to learn about new ones.

Sagola has taken part one more year in the International Hardware Exhibition held in Cologne (Germany) from the 4 to the 7 of March; an excellent opportunity to show the latest novelties in the hardware and industrial supply catalogue.

Sagola makes a very positive balance of its presence thanks to the high number of meetings with consolidated customers and new contacts and due to the interest shown towards the novelties displayed.

In addition to a notable increase in visitors compared to the 2016 edition, the number of countries from which they came has also increased, reaching 45 different countries this year, thus reinforcing their commitment to growth in the international market.

Sagola has visited in March the Centre Tècnic Vallès de les Franqueses del Vallés (Barcelona) for a training day for the students of a bodyshop course, where our technicians talked about products and applications for the refinish sector. They had the chance to deeply know the most important product of Sagola Refinish catalogue such as 4600 Xtreme, Mini Xtreme, 3300 GTO and air filtration systems.

This activity was held by the school among other activities related to vocational guidance. Sagola believes that the collaboration between industry and academic world is very important for the business evolution and that is why we often held training courses in schools and universities all over the world.