dispatch salute to industry 2015
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Honoring area industry. Published in The Dispatch on May 24, 2015.TRANSCRIPT
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Salute to Industry
May 24, 2015
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ADVERTISER INDEX4-County Electric Power Association .................................................... 12Airbus Helicopters ................................................................................ 11Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle ........................................ 9Burns Dirt Construction .......................................................................... 5Cash & Carry Building Supply ................................................................ 4Columbus Brick Company .................................................................... 19Columbus Light & Water ........................................................................ 7The Clinic at Elm Lake ............................................................................ 4Columbus Diesel Service ...................................................................... 17DPM Fragrance ..................................................................................... 20East Mississippi Community College ....................................................... 2Ecolab .................................................................................................. 18Evans Plumbing & Air Conditioning ........................................................ 6Falcon Lair .............................................................................................. 4Flexsteel Industries ................................................................................. 5Industrial Fire Protection ....................................................................... 20The Golden Triangle Development LINK ................................................ 3Golden Triangle Regional Airport ............................................................ 9Greater Starkville Development Partnership ............................................ 7Gulf States Manufacturers ..................................................................... 13Mid-South Signs ................................................................................... 20Mississippi University for Women ......................................................... 19Neel-Shaffer ........................................................................................... 9Newell Paper Company .......................................................................... 5PACCAR Engine Company ...................................................................... 6Puckett-McGee Electric Supply ............................................................... 9Quality Inn ........................................................................................... 12Southern Ionics ....................................................................................... 4Southwire ............................................................................................. 19Steel Dynamics ..................................................................................... 18Superior Catfish .................................................................................... 18Thad Cochran Research, Technology & Economic Development Park ... 12Tronox .................................................................................................. 23Valmet .................................................................................................. 24Waste Pro USA ....................................................................................... 5Wheeler Roofing .................................................................................. 20Yokohama Tire Corporation .................................................................. 13
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ON THE COVER: Golden Triangle Development LINK CEO Joe Max Higgins on the site of the incoming Communiversity, a $38 million EMCC workforce training facility that will serve the Golden Triangle.
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The Golden Triangle is growing. A decade ago, engineers, chemists and other skilled laborers from the area would get their degrees and leave for a place they could better use them. An influx of business and industry, though, changed that. Now the area needs as many skilled workers as possible. And it needs them now.
The first batch was a whole lot easier to find than the last, Scott Blue, plant manager at PACCAR, said when asked about finding skilled labor.
Local developers recognized the problem.Golden Triangle Development LINK
CEO Joe Max Higgins brought on Dr. Malcom Portera, former Chancellor of the University of Alabama and president of Mississippi State University, who worked as a workforce development consultant in 2013. Portera offered a solution.
For the whole three counties, he said your Achilles heel is going to be workforce development, Higgins recalled Portera telling him. He said, Im envisioning a place where youth are inspired to work.
Enter Communiversity, formally known as the Center for Manufacturing Technology Excellenece 2.0, a joint venture between East Mississippi Community College and the Golden Triangle Development LINK. The $38 million, 133,690-square-foot, three-story structure will house 15 manufacturing, technology and engineering educational bays triple the amount currently offered at EMCCs CMTE 1.0. Higgins said the facility may be able to house as many as 25 bays; he is currently pursuing private money to contribute more training bays.
Thats where the rubber hits the road, Higgins said of the work bays.
Communiversity has $31.5 million raised thus far. The state legislature has put in $18 million over the past two sessions. Locally, Lowndes County put in $10 million; Oktibbeha County contributed $2.5 million;
and Clay County approved $1 million toward the project. Higgins said $6.1 million remains, but that money is expected to come from the federal government.
The building will be located at the Golden Triangle Global Industrial Aerospace Park, right by the airport. Higgins hopes it is the first thing visitors see.
We picked that spot for the wow factor going into GTR, and now were going to push, push, push, Higgins said.
Construction on the project is slated to begin in August 2016. Local industries are excited about that.
I think it fits directly in line with us, other local industries and any companies thinking of coming in the future, Blue said. And they will come.
His company, PACCAR, now employs
more than 500 people at its Lowndes County plant. Blue said his workers will be able to go back to the Communiversity to train with new technologies as their business grows.
Communiversity is one of the final projects put into motion by EMCC president Dr. Rick Young, who is retiring June 30. For his replacement, Dr. Thomas Huebner, it was a bonus.
Its one of the things thats very attractive to me about EMCC, Huebner said. Its on the cutting edge of industry and technology.
Huebner is coming to EMCC from Shelton State Community College in Tuscaloosa, a school with a reputation for producing skilled manufacturers and educating students in mechatronics, an
interdisciplinary field of engineering. I dont think its a coincidence that
they hired someone from Shelton State, Higgins said.
Technology in manufacturing is changing at as fast a rate as anything in the world, Huebner said. Understanding that technology requires constant retraining and education.
Communiversity is about looking ahead and preparing for the unknown changes that the industrial world will surely experience in years to come. Whatever those adaptions are, the LINK and local businesses think EMCC will be able to ready the work force in the Golden Triangle.
TRAINING GROUNDSBy ANDREW HAZZARD | [email protected]
Communiversity aims to attract, grow industry in Golden Triangle
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TRAINING GROUNDSBy ANDREW HAZZARD | [email protected]
Communiversity aims to attract, grow industry in Golden Triangle
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MAYHEW Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi stole the show at East Mississippi Community Colleges 2015 Industry Appreciation Luncheon.
The Japanese tire manufacturer, preparing to open its 1 million-square-foot Clay County factory this fall, received the Directors Award, the events highest honor. YTMM President Tad Yamamoto delivered a progress report on the plant and checks for $250,000 to EMCC and Mississippi State University.
Other honorees included PACCAR Engine Company, which took home the Best Practices Award, and special recognition for Randy Kelly of The Mississippi Partnership, and Wanda Land, who is retiring from the Mississippi Development Authority.
We need people with more than just the ability to work hard. We need people who can think and solve problems. And thats what all the people in this room are working toward, said Dr. Raj Shaunak, vice president of EMCCs Manufacturing Technology and Engineering division.
In presenting YTMM with the Directors Award for the highest level of recognition through workforce training, demonstrating management excellence with superior outcomes, continuing to improve and build upon outstanding results and excellent systems and deploying world-class processes, Shaunak said EMCC looks forward to a very long relationship with the company.
He said the $250,000 YTMM presented to EMCC will provide scholarships to eleventh and twelfth grade students to take MTE division credit courses, particularly in the recently added electro-mechanical and mechatronics programs, as well as manufacturing summer camps for sixth grade students.
We need every business in this room, government as well as private business, to expose these students to real work environments, said Shaunak.
Some of the money donated by YTMM will
also be used to bolster manufacturing training at EMCCs West Point Center.
During his progress report, Yamamoto said the YTMM plant should be operational sometime in October, producing about 1 million truck and bus tires per year with a staff of around 500 employees.
Explaining the rationale behind locating the YTMM plant in Clay County, Yamamoto
said the company looked at 3,000 U.S. counties, including 116 in the Southeast, before settling on Clay County due to cost, available workforce, government incentives and Southern hospitality.
As of April, YTMM had hired 180 employees, with more than half having been trained at EMCC.
EMCC President Dr. Rick Young, who is
retiring in June, took one final opportunity to brag about the Workforce Services team at EMCC, which worked in concert with the Golden Triangle Development LINK to bring Yokohama to Clay County.
Our Workforce training team is among the best in the nation, without a doubt. And our success is the communitys success, said Young.
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YOKOHAMA RECEIVES TOP HONOR, MAKES DONATIONSAT EMCC INDUSTRY APPRECIATION LUNCHEON
Special to The Dispatch | EMCC Public Relations
Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi presented East Mississippi Community Colleges Workforce Services Division a donation of $250,000 during EMCCs Golden Triangle campus Industry Appreciation Luncheon. (from left) Dr. Raj Shaunak, vice president for EMCCs Manufacturing Technology and Engineering Division; Osama Zushi, YTMM executive vice president of EVP manufacturing and technology; Tad Yamamoto, YTMM president; Debby Gard, EMCC vice president for the Lion Hills Center; Joe Cook, EMCC assistant dean for EMCCs MTE Division; Susan Baird, assistant dean for EMCCs MTE Division; Alan Easome, YTMM senior director of new plant development; Mitzi Thompson, director of EMCCs West Point Center; Dennis Dorvilliers, YTMM engineering manager; and Dr. Rick Young, EMCC president. | Image courtesy EMCC Public Relations
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YOKOHAMA RECEIVES TOP HONOR, MAKES DONATIONSAT EMCC INDUSTRY APPRECIATION LUNCHEON
Special to The Dispatch | EMCC Public Relations
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East Mississippi Community Colleges26th Annual Industry Appreciation Luncheon
Photos Luisa Porter & Mark Wilson | Dispatch Staff
(top left) Wanda Land receives an East Mississippi Community College Workforce Services Special Recognition Award from EMCC President Dr. Rick Young (left) and Vice President for EMCCs Manufacturing Technology and Engineering Division, Dr. Raj Shaunak. | (top right) Shaunak and Young present representatives for Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi (L-R) Alan Easome, YTMM senior director of new plant development; Tad Yamamoto, YTMM president; Osama Zushi, YTMM executive vice president of EVP manufacturing and technology, and Dennis Dorvilliers, YTMM engineering manager with the Directors Award. | (bottom left) Young and Shaunak present representatives for PACCAR Engine Company Kim Decker, Jason Barlow, Lance Walters and Scott Blue with the Best Practices Award. | (bottom left) Young and Shaunak present representatives for The Mississippi Partnership (L-R) Bobby Smith, Gary Golden, Courtney Rackley and Jessica Jordan.with a Special Recognition Award on behalf of Randy Kelly.
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(top left) Wanda Land receives an East Mississippi Community College Workforce Services Special Recognition Award from EMCC President Dr. Rick Young (left) and Vice President for EMCCs Manufacturing Technology and Engineering Division, Dr. Raj Shaunak. | (top right) Shaunak and Young present representatives for Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi (L-R) Alan Easome, YTMM senior director of new plant development; Tad Yamamoto, YTMM president; Osama Zushi, YTMM executive vice president of EVP manufacturing and technology, and Dennis Dorvilliers, YTMM engineering manager with the Directors Award. | (bottom left) Young and Shaunak present representatives for PACCAR Engine Company Kim Decker, Jason Barlow, Lance Walters and Scott Blue with the Best Practices Award. | (bottom left) Young and Shaunak present representatives for The Mississippi Partnership (L-R) Bobby Smith, Gary Golden, Courtney Rackley and Jessica Jordan.with a Special Recognition Award on behalf of Randy Kelly.
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(above left) Melinda and Rick Young; (above right) Steve Grice and Mike Taquino of Mississippi State Universitys nSPARC and Wanda Land of the Mississippi Development Authority(below left) Kevin Baird and Jim Bearden of EMCC; (below right) Rebecca Hunt and Bill Brown of BankFirst
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(above left) Melinda and Rick Young; (above right) Steve Grice and Mike Taquino of Mississippi State Universitys nSPARC and Wanda Land of the Mississippi Development Authority(below left) Kevin Baird and Jim Bearden of EMCC; (below right) Rebecca Hunt and Bill Brown of BankFirst
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