The Sika Experience

Countdown for Sika Experience Trip Mining Chile has begun

Santiago, September 2012.- In a few days an unprecedented activity will take place in Chile: Sika Trip Experience Mining. This program will take four young people to experience the mining and wine world in this long and narrow country.

To participate in this experience, youngsters must be studying topics associated to engineering and comply with health and language requirements.  Finally, three Chilean and one Mexican were selected to form part of a unique one week learning adventure.

Visits to some most important Chilean mining deposits of the world as well as vineyards of south-central region of the country will be some of the activities that Montserrat, Ana Maria, Oscar and Jorge – the four students – will develop which shall shape the first Chilean experience of this international program that since 2010 provides opportunities of professional development for young people.

About Sika S.A. Chile

Sika (www.sika.cl) is an independent Swiss industrial group with 76 subsidiaries worldwide.  Sika was founded in 1910 by the researcher Kaspar Winkler in Zurich. Sika products were introduced in Chile in 1942. Today, Sika Chile manufactures in the country 80% of traded products and supplies epoxy products to subsidiaries in the region.