HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. – Meguiar’s Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the 3M Company, has come to the aid of 676 secondary and post-secondary collision programs across the country by donating sets of its Unigrit Fine Grade Blending and Finishing Discs through the Collision Repair Education Foundation.
 
In total, the donation equals a retail value of $600,000, which will ease collision department budgets by providing students the opportunity to work with up-to-date supplies.
 
According to Collision Repair Education Foundation Executive Director Scott Kruger, 3M has provided more than $2 million in product donations to the Collision Repair Education Foundation. This latest donation from Meguiar's helped the largest amount of schools in one donation in the foundation’s history.
 
“On behalf of collision students and instructors nationwide, we thank Meguiar’s and 3M for their continued support and invite additional collision industry businesses to follow 3M’s lead in providing product donations to secondary and post-secondary collision school programs,” Kruger said.
 
Industry members and companies interested in supporting secondary and post-secondary school’s collision programs through monetary and/or in-kind product donations should contact Associate Director of Development Brandon Eckenrode at Brandon.Eckenrode@ed-foundation.org or 847-463-5244.