Founded in 1992, Entech designs, fabricates, installs and services custom can conveying, rinsing and cleaning systems. Their customers are leading food and beverage manufacturers and co-packers, including Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Boston Beer, Sentry Equipment, Ross Laboratories, Cott, and craft brewers including Revolution, Lagunitas and Founders.

Entech Fabrications provides their customers with inventive, technologically advanced solutions that go hand-in-hand with personalized service. Internationally recognized by the leading food and beverage producers, Entech and the Gatling Gun® can rinser are known for quality, experience, responsiveness and value. They continually expand their production capabilities and service personnel to meet the evolving needs of global food, beverage, nutrition and pharmaceutical companies.

Cybersecurity continues to be a hot topic for manufacturers – and rightfully so! According to the State of Industrial Cybersecurity 2018 by Kaspersky, “Over three quarters of the companies surveyed state that it is very likely or at least quite likely to become a target of a cybersecurity attack in the operational technology and industrial cybersecurity space. Despite this, only 23% are compliant with minimal mandatory industry or government guidance and regulations around cybersecurity of industrial control systems.”

With 8 years of expertise in the manufacturing industry, 10 successful years in sales and nearly 30 years of leadership proficiency, Rob is responsible for leading IMEC’s field staff. He joined IMEC 5 years ago as a Regional Manager and within the last few months, transitioned to serving as IMEC’s Client Engagement Manager. His wealth of experience and his passion for building relationships - with teammates, clients, community leaders and partners - makes him a valuable asset to the IMEC team.

Laystrom is a full-service provider of precision sheet metal fabrications and component parts, value added assemblies, and low and high volume metal stampings. Their specialties include prototype production in as little as 2-3 days, and rapid development of cost effective and consistently manufactured sheet metal parts, stampings and assemblies.

They also provide cost effective support for on-going production requirements that supports your JIT needs.  As prototype development ramps up to production builds, Laystrom has the ability to scale up to stamping production methods to facilitate productivity improvements when appropriate.

US Department of Labor's OSHA to co-sponsor DIOSH Day, Illinois workplace safety and health conference in Peoria on February 27, 2019.

Peoria, Ill. – Construction safety, combustible dust, fall protection, crane safety, organizational change management and developing a safety culture will be featured topics at the workshops and breakout sessions of this year’s Downstate Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Day. The event will be held Wednesday, February 27, at the Peoria Civic Center located at 201 Jefferson St. SW.

All-Rite has been a proud supplier to the North American and international industrial marketplace for over 60 years. They are a direct JIT supplier to many industries including automotive direct to Ford and GM, and Tier 1 and 2 automotive suppliers. Other customers include automotive aftermarket, electronics, and appliance, military, aerospace, medical and entrepreneurial industries.

All-Rite houses state of the art tooling and production equipment to provide the highest quality products and services. Production capability ranges from pre-production samples to multi-million piece production runs. They utilize high precision production equipment to produce ISO/TS16949 level quality parts, including punch presses, four-slides, CNC, spring coilers, injection molding presses, insert molding presses, and other secondary operation equipment.

As a J.I.T. supplier, they utilize E.D.I. to perform multiple daily interfaces to check customer inventory and to generate All-Rite industries daily shipping schedules. Their production planning system allows them to meet all of their customer’s needs.

 Written by Carly McCory, partner and Executive Director - Champaign County Economic Development Corporation

The Champaign County Economic Development Corporation and Parkland College will join community, regional and state partners to celebrate February as Career and Technical Education Month®, or CTE Month®, which recognizes the value and accomplishments of career and technical education programs in the U.S.