On 6 November 2024, 7th & 8th graders of Rev. Tadeusz Wiatr Primary School in Łączki Brzeskie had a unique opportunity to make a tour of our production plant. The tour was organized primarily for the youth to learn about prospective career options, the wealth of work positions and job descriptions.

The tour started just after 8:30 a.m. with a welcome word and a brief theoretical introduction. First, our OHSE Specialist Marcin Pabijańczyk delivered the mandatory instruction for the youth to know the safety rules applicable on the site. Andrzej Ziobrowski, Product Manager of the Sales Department, took over with the corporate presentation to tell, in a nutshell, about the history of Lerg, our products and their applications.

The practical part covered a tour of the departments and specific installations, guided by Process Engineers of the Product Technology and Quality Department, Klaudia Kopeć in the Amino Resins and Formalin Department, and then Rafał Puzio, Technology Specialist for polyester resins and polyols, who showed the participants around the installation and the control room and presented the production process and the products. while at the Phenolic Resins Department, Technology Specialist Sylwester Ziobro showcased the installation for the production of phenolic-formaldehyde resins and the milling plant for novolak resins.
The Quality Control laboratories turned out to attract the most interest, with lab technicians performing input material, in-process and finished product testing for our resins, analyzing test results and releasing production batches to trade. The tour here was guided by Paulina Mormol-Nykiel, Quality Control Analyst. The visitors learned about importance of specialist apparatus, laboratory equipment, control and measuring devices in the chemical industry, along with the relevant standards and norms to ensure the desired product quality. Production control rooms in individual Departments also attracted considerable attention, with live-view monitoring of the operations for reactors, storage tanks and, most interestingly, subsequent stages of the production processes.

A number of interesting conclusions were raised at the debrief: for students, it was the first occasion ever to see up close such large and complex production installations, reactors, laboratory equipment, lab analyses, and some of the resins actually made at the plant.

For the first time ever, they identified the Lerg production plant as a bright spot in their mental map of the closest neighbourhood. The sheer size of the site also made quite an impression, and the variety of job positions they had the opportunity to learn about, including operators, process engineers and technology specialists, quality control analysts, laboratory technicians, sales people and marketing specialists, left those soon to enter the labour market clearly fascinated.

Our thanks go to everyone who, without leaving their daily duties, helped us arrange for the young people’s tour of the production plant. We would also like to thank the teachers: Agnieszka Wozowicz, Małgorzata Wąż and Ewelina Marszałek for the idea itself and organization of the tour.