Archive for 2019
Building a Future that Works: DESMA Molds Homegrown Employees
by Lara Copeland, contributing writer, Inside Rubber Between ever-changing technology and the retirement of a substantial portion of the skilled workforce, the US is experiencing a shortage of qualified workers…
Read MoreFAME Program Gives Student Jumpstart in Auto Career
Austin Wilhite comes from a woodworking family. But even a few years ago, when he was a teen working in his uncle’s framing business, Austin Wilhite couldn’t have imagined that…
Read MoreFAME Program Puts Student on Road to Success
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Terry McKelvey has always liked making things. Born in Huntsville, Alabama, he worked two part-time jobs in high school that showed him what modern manufacturing looked like. And when…
Read MoreManufacturing Institute to Expand FAME Apprenticeship Program
© UPI Photo BY ALEX GANGITANO – 09/10/19 05:00 AM EDT Ivanka Trump and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)’s Manufacturing Institute are set to announce a major expansion of a skills training and…
Read MoreIvanka Trump helps launch manufacturing workforce initiative in north Alabama
By Elizabeth Gentle| September 8, 2019 at 2:15 PM CDT – Updated September 10 at 7:02 PM DECATUR, AL (WAFF) – Manufacturers across the country are facing the problem of having more…
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