Aneta Piekarska started at Colart in September 2007, as a temporary worker. Her job role was as an assembly worker at our site in Kidderminster. Three months later, in January 2008, Aneta was then offered a full-time job. In 2009 she went on maternity leave with the joy of her second baby, returning to work in the assembly area in 2010.  In 2011 Aneta moved into the warehouse as a warehouse general operative. She took on the role with many challenges and learnt many new skills including goods-in, despatch and carousel; growing her experience and knowledge in all areas. In 2021 Aneta started training in the production control department.  She quickly picked up processes including inputting orders and releasing them. This led to her supporting this department more frequently.

Aneta is a credit to our operations and a dedicated member of the team and to the Colart business.  Congratulations Aneta, fifteen years of fantastic service, dedication, and commitment to Colart. 

If you want to celebrate Aneta’s long service at Colart, why not like or share our post on LinkedIn

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Over the holiday break I visited the Wharton Esherick Museum in Malvern, Pennsylvania.  It’s the home and studio of artist Wharton Esherick and if you’re ever in the area I highly suggest a visit.  Also nearby is an Air B&B I stayed at that was once the home of 1970’s singer/songwriter Jim Croce.  There’s lots of inspiration to be had in each place.

Hailed as the Dean of American Studio Woodworking, Wharton Esherick (1887-1970) pioneered what was once considered a utilitarian craft into a form of art. Initially trained as a painter at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Wharton dropped out six months prior to graduation due to conflicting interests with the stylistic direction of the program. He later turned to woodworking and sculpture when his audience became more interested in his handcrafted wooden frames than his actual paintings. His distinguished wooden sculptures, avant-garde furniture creations, and woodblock prints have been exhibited at the 1940s Worlds Fair in New York, Museum of Metropolitan Art (MoMA), Renwick Gallery, Wolfsonian-FIU Museum, and Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Hi Colart Team! I wish you and your families all the best for the new challenging year. As it is a tradition at the beginning of the year to make some good resolutions or commitments, I would like to send you a suggestion or maybe a reminder with the rule of the \’5 R\’: Refuse, Reuse, Reduce, Recycle, Rot.

Hoping the color for the next years will be Green!

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As part of our continuous improvement approach (PERFORM) we have just realized this week our first 5S half-day in our filling workshops. This first step mainly consisted of sorting out a good part of the useless things and cleaning up (down to the details) some things that had been left aside for too long.

Everyone took to the game and the result is sometimes surprising !

Congratulations to all the production teams at the Le Mans site and I invite everyone in 2023 to come and see where we are!

Happy New Year’s Eve to everyone!

Dans le cadre de notre démarche d’amélioration continue (PERFORM) nous venons de réaliser cette semaine notre première 1/2 journée de 5S au sein de nos ateliers de conditionnement. Cette première étape a surtout consisté à trier une bonne partie des choses inutiles et à nettoyer (jusque dans le détails) certaines choses qui avait été trop longtemps laissées de côté.

Tout le monde s’est pris au jeu et le résultat est parfois étonnant.

Un grand bravo à toutes les équipes de production du site du Mans et je vous invite en 2023 à venir voir où nous en sommes !

Bonnes fêtes de fin d’année à toutes et tous !

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Thanks to Colart Charity programme, Colart Italia, in collaboration with key client Artecreo, delivered last week to Santobono Pausilipon Foundation colourful and assorted painting sets from Lefranc Bourgeois Kids as well as Winsor & Newton drawing materials that will offer special creative moments to young “artists” from Naples’s Children Hospitals.

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