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MATC Wins Workforce Advancement Grants to
Train Hundreds of Local Manufacturing Workers
Governor Jim Doyle announced today that Madison Area Technical
College (MATC) has been awarded two Workforce Advancement Training
Grants to train hundreds of local manufacturing workers in the
skills needed to help their companies compete in global markets.
Under
one of the grants, MATC will provide training to Madison-Kipp
Corporation production workers in new machining techniques and
processes. The $19,426 grant
will help Madison-Kipp upgrade the skills of its employees to operate new high-technology
equipment the company plans to install as part of a 120,000 square-foot expansion
in southcentral Wisconsin, which is expected to create up to 163 new jobs.
The training will help keep well-paid manufacturing jobs in the
United States by
allowing Madison-Kipp to offer consistently high quality, high value and more
complexly machined metal castings than its global competitors.
“The world of manufacturing is changing. Upgrading the skills of workers
in the machining industry is critical to remaining competitive in a global market,” says
MATC Business, Industry and Community Services Manager Marla Gamoran. “This
grant gives us an opportunity to support an expanding business in our district – a
business that’s interested in upgrading the skills of its employees to
remain competitive.”
The second grant to MATC, for $72,731, is to train 900 employees
of nine area manufacturers in the Jobs With a Future partnership
on quality and technology
solutions. The training will improve each company’s ability to produce
products more efficiently, reduce waste and downtime, and implement other changes
leading
to greater company
competitiveness
and profitability. Participating companies include:
Briggs & Stratton Power
Products, Jefferson
Cardinal Glass, Portage
Clack Corporation, Windsor
Humane Manufacturing, Baraboo
LA Darling, Sun Prairie
Nestle’ Purina Pet Care, Jefferson
Placon, Fitchburg
Seats Incorporated, Reedsburg
Webcrafters, Madison
“The Jobs With a Future manufacturers have consistently shown the ability
to work together in partnership as well as continuously investing in employee
development. This grant enhances their ability, and the ability of MATC, to further
that investment and focus on their quality, process improvement and technical
skill training goals,” Gamoran says. The Workforce Advancement Training
Grants program was created to enable businesses to better access training opportunities
through the Wisconsin Technical College
System (WTCS). Including the MATC grants, more than $700,000 is being provided
to technical college districts throughout the state to provide immediate and
direct training of 5,000 Wisconsin workers.
MATC is one of the largest of WTCS’s
16 colleges. It provides a comprehensive curriculum of technical, liberal arts
and science, adult basic education and
life enrichment studies and activities, as well as customized employee training.
MATC provides training in more than 100 career programs. It awards associate
degrees, vocational diplomas and certificates, and offers non-degree courses.
The college serves all or parts of 12 counties located in south-central Wisconsin
and offers instruction through five campuses and various other locations throughout
the district.
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