Peoria Production Shop was founded in 1941, initially to provide employment for recovering tuberculosis patients.In 1951, the organization was incorporated as a not-for-profit, and we expanded our mission to employ individuals with all types of disabilities.
Shamrock Plastics, a Peoria-based plastic thermo-forming manufacturer recently celebrated the achievement of becoming Gold Certified - a supplier excellence program through Caterpillar. The company is one of only 68 manufacturers achieving this certification of the more than 9,000 suppliers worldwide. This is quite a success for our local Shamrock Plastics.
Join Global Midwest Alliance, San Diego CONNECT and sponsor, Bank of America, for the first program in the Alliance's 2013 Innovation, Growth and Globalization Industry-Focused Series: Innovations and Opportunities for Manufacturers, Additive Manufacturers, and Global Producers
Why attend? Program attendees will have the opportunity to network with executives from the manufacturing, development, international and finance communities, and learn about specific initiatives to bring manufacturing and industrial projects to developing nations through consulting, project bidding and funding, and private partnerships.
Yesterday, the Obama administration made funding available for the Make it in America Challenge, announced by the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA). The Make it in America Challenge aims to encourage foreign and domestic businesses to build and/or expand their operations in the United States.
The Make it in America Challenge will provide $40 million in competitive grant funding through the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) and National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NIST MEP), and the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA). Below is more information about the Make It in America Challenge, including application and evaluation criteria, as well as additional resources.
Manufacturing Skills Training available through Lake Land College Industrial Programs
IMEC and the staff at the LLC Center for Business & Industry are reaching out to companies in the LLC district for manufacturing/industrial-related offerings to train current or future workers on essential skills for the workplace... Check out the program descriptions below and contact IMEC's Jenny McKinney for additional information!
Since 1980, Hustedt Jewelers has been manufacturing fine jewelry and watches in silver gold and platinum. Nobody does custom like Hustedts.
Hustedt Jewelers has a state of the art design and manufacturing facility located in the back of the store. Whether it is your vision or ours, your gold or ours, your stones or ours, Hustedt Jewelers will be able to bring it from design to reality.
Lincoln and Logan County Development Partnership hosts the Manufacturer's Council on March 19,2013 as the industry and educational leaders discuss partnerships and possibilities for advancing the regional workforce with featured speaker Kim Kuchenbrod.
If you have a success story to tell about the goods or services you sell around the world and have used a federal government program or assistance to get there, the U.S. Small Business Administration and Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) are cosponsoring the “2013 SBA-Visa Export Video Contest” where your company will have the chance to win up to $10,000 just by sharing your story with other small business exporters on www.exportvideo.challenge.gov
