Where a great paint job begins.

The Rohm and Haas Paint Quality Institute (PQI) is proud to join with PDCA Contractor College in its paint training initiatives. Since its founding in 1989, PQI has been helping to educate professional painters, do-it-yourselfers, and paint retailers about quality paint and quality painting practices.

PQI is headquartered in Spring House, Pennsylvania on a site that includes six acres of painted exposure panels that provide wide ranging information about paint ingredients, formulations, and the effects of weather extremes on paint performance. Today, PQI’s efforts to promote quality painting are global, with active programs in every region of the world and web sites in ten languages, each tailored to the paints, practices, and requirements of the local paint market.

There are eight courses offered by PQI through PDCA College which cover a wide range of paint topics, including:

• Paint and its Ingredients
• Interior Paints
• Interior Surface Preparation
• Exterior Paints
• Exterior Surface Preparation
• Color and Decorating
• Applications Tools
• Painting Safety
 

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We invite you learn more about the Paint Quality Institute and to take advantage of some of the many resources that PQI offers to the professional painter. Yours is an important industry with a proud tradition and PQI is honored to be working with you in promoting quality painting.