康涅狄格州ecticut Businesses Join Forces for Educational Program

康涅狄格州ecticut manufacturing is known for providing finishes for some of the most impressive products in the world including aerospace components, 潜艇, 汽车, 电子产品, medical equipment and hardware, as well as decorative finishes for everyday items that touch our daily lives.

The Northwest Regional Workforce Investment Board (NRWIB, Waterbury, 康涅狄格州.) has announced that a group of businesses — often metal-finishing industry competitors — are working together to pioneer a new educational program for the metal-finishing industry. Known as METAL (Master Electroplating Through Applied Learning), the program will launch in the Fall of 2023.

该倡议, which is supported by the Northwest Manufacturing Regional Sector 合作伙伴hip, is pioneered with the expertise of local metal finishers: 金属表面处理 Technologies (Bristol, 康涅狄格州.), UniMetal Surface Finishing LLC (Thomaston, 康涅狄格州.), Summit Plating (Thomaston, 康涅狄格州.), American Electro Products (Waterbury, 康涅狄格州.), Waterbury Plating (Waterbury, 康涅狄格州.), and Pape Electroplating (New Britain, 康涅狄格州.), and with support from chemical manufacturers Hubbard-Hall (Waterbury, 康涅狄格州.) and MacDermid Enthone Industrial Solutions (Waterbury, 康涅狄格州.).

“It was important for us to create this now,” says George A. LaCapra小., President, of UniMetal Surface Finishing LLC. “The market needs skilled workers and people are looking for ways to grow in their careers. The skills offered through this class are highly transferable and offer a career filled with technical growth in a fascinating highly stable industry that very few know about.”

The curriculum of METAL will be practical and straightforward, offering real-life hands-on applied learning. The NRWIB says that those going through the program will learn theory (need, 机会, and finishing’s key role in the future), science (the fundamentals behind the art of transforming metals), and applied learning (skills for applying finishes and launching a career).

“If the participant has the right attitude and puts in the effort to combine the skills taught at METAL, they will be given the 机会 to grow their career,” says Catherine Awwad, 总裁/首席执行官, 的NRWIB.

“When we set out to create METAL, one thing has always been clear, the next generation of workers needs to know – your success and career are important to us,” adds Pete Mirabello, 主席, 金属表面处理 Technologies LLC.

The NRWIB is the primary convener of the manufacturing regional sector partnership and played an essential role in connecting this group of manufacturers to develop a solution to address the workforce challenges in metal finishing. The group says METAL offers interested individuals a head start on growth in a career path ripe with 机会. The program is designed to help individuals learn through hands-on experience and hard work and to earn their way to important roles in plating, 工程, 化学, 质量, 维护, or production and sales.