Evonik shares its extensive know-how about paints and coatings with the entire coatings and printing ink industry: On COATINO® Campus, the Coating Additives Business Line offers newcomers and experts alike comprehensive information about additives and formulations. The new knowledge platform includes extensive interactive eLearnings on effect groups such as defoamers or matting agents, live events, expert presentations, laboratory videos and much more. Registration and use of the platform is completely free of charge.
Users can register for different content depending on their level of knowledge and area of interest. The user determines the time and speed at which the training is carried out. Upon successful completion of an eLearning course, users also receive certificates to document their completion. In this way, the business division supports its customers in training new employees, while also enabling experts to acquire new detailed knowledge.
"With COATINO® Campus, we are further expanding our range of services under the umbrella of COATINO®, the dynamic formulation network," says Gaetano Blanda, Head of the Business Line. "Together with our customers and partners, we are on an exciting journey of discovery with the products of the COATINO® family: We are continuously developing new products and services to support customers in the coatings and printing ink industry even better in formulating their products."
In addition to traditional eLearning content, the platform also includes approaches for so-called "blended learning", i.e. the combination of online and offline content, as well as background information on coating technologies. There is also extensive information material on every new product from Coating Additives, so that users of the platform have access to the latest information on the business unit's product portfolio at all times.
"Of course, COATINO® Campus does not replace the support provided by our coating experts," explains project manager Susanne Struck. "Rather, the platform enables our customers to educate themselves at any time and also to seek personal contact with us."
In addition to the new knowledge platform, the COATINO® formulation network already includes an AI-supported product recommendation, voice control and a formulation assistant. Further services are currently being developed. "No matter what phase of formulation development our customers are in, we always offer the right support: from additive selection to the optimal composition of the formulation to application technology support," says Susanne Struck.
The knowledge platform is not only aimed at companies in the paint and coatings industry, but also at students and trainees who want to further their education on their own initiative.
