Manufacturing Day Welcomes Four Additional Sponsors
Rockford, IL (PRWEB) September 19, 2013 -- The roster of Manufacturing Day 2013 sponsors recently added four new key supporters. The Association for Manufacturing Excellence has joined the movement as a Silver Sponsor, while the Manufacturing Talent Development Institute, American Foundry Society, and Wearwell, Inc. have come on board at the Bronze level.
Manufacturing Day sponsors provide the resources to support manufacturers participating in the program, a grassroots effort by U.S. manufacturers to improve public perception of manufacturing in America by coordinating awareness-raising activities at a variety of locations across the country on October 4, 2013.
Manufacturing Day is an annual national event, executed at the local level, that supports hundreds of manufacturers across the nation that host students, teachers, parents, job seekers and other local community members at open houses designed to showcase modern manufacturing technology and careers. A panel of co-producers comprised of the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, International (FMA), the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), the Manufacturing Institute (MI), the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), and guest producer Industrial Strength Marketing (ISM) provide the centralized support necessary to coordinate this nationwide array of simultaneous events. The national media partner for the event is the Science Channel.
“The co-producers could not be more pleased that these organizations and companies, which work on such an integral level with all sectors of the manufacturing industry, are putting their full support behind Manufacturing Day,” said Ed Youdell, president and CEO of the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association. “Their reputation and their reach to professionals in the industry, as well as educators and students, will help generate participation in Manufacturing Day events across the nation.”
To learn more about Manufacturing Day, visit http://www.mfgday.com. Organizations that wish to become involved as official sponsors should call 888-394-4362 or email info(at)mfgday(dot)com.
For more information about each of the co-producers, please contact:
Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, Intl.
Patricia Lee
Director of Marketing
(815) 227-8286
patl(at)fmanet(dot)org
National Institute of Standards & Technology
Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership
Jennifer Huergo
Director of Media Relations
(301) 975-6343
jennifer(dot)huergo(at)nist(dot)gov
National Association of Manufacturers and
The Manufacturing Institute
Matt Lavoie
Senior Director of Media Relations, Communications
(202) 637-3085
mlavoie(at)nam(dot)org
Industrial Strength Marketing
Joey Strawn
Director of Integrated Marketing
(866) 529-8908
jstrawn(at)marketstrong(dot)net
Joey Strawn, Industrial Strength Marketing, http://www.marketstrong.com/, 1 (800) 687-3208, [email protected]
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