Sustainability is part of the company's basic attitude and mission, as Ignacio Román Navarro, Regional Commercial Director VR EMEA, emphasized at the opening of the conference. The view toward challenges applies internationally. Conference speakers Amedeo Bonorva (VR Premium Sales Manager Switzerland), Daniel Kapeller (VR Premium Sales Manager Austria) and Stefan Oesterling (Area Sales Manager Germany) highlighted the need to rethink. One of the central topics of the conference was to find ways and means to support the companies in the DACH region on their way to more sustainability.
Other speakers at the conference presented solutions for more sustainability in refinishing. The first day of the conference was concluded by Dipl-Ing. Thomas Behl (Allianz Center for Technology), who brought the insurance perspective into play in day-to-day workshop operations. On the second day of the conference, store owners from Germany, Austria and Switzerland had their say. This was followed by a presentation of products from AkzoNobel that reduce energy consumption. Kai Gräper (Manager Acoat Selected DACH) presented the partner program 2023, Acoat Selected.