About eight hundred pre-vocational secondary education students from the Venlo and Venray region will visit the Penn Color International color powder factory in Venray this week and next. In this way they can become acquainted with the profession of operator, technician or laboratory technician.
And that is not only instructive but also necessary. Because, according to the company Procestechniek & Maintenance Limburg, Limburg needs three hundred operators and one hundred technicians every year due to retirement. With a look at the company floor, the business community and the school communities hope to enthuse young people for training in process technology.
Enthusiasm
“Go to the supermarket and see what’s there. All made in process technology. All those companies need operators. That’s why you shouldn’t talk about process technology, you have to let students experience it,” says Paul Jessen, director of Process Technology & Maintenance representing 50 companies in Limburg.
ketchup bottle
The students who visit the powder coating company today see how the supermarket products are made. The students are shown the making of a ketchup bottle as an example. “And then we hope that the heart will beat faster in the students. If they find it fascinating, we invite them to a company for another day. Then they get a ‘Vip’ tour. And then we hope that they choose the training.” According to Jessen.