Pennsylvania Plastics Initiative

Quarterly Reports Plastics Initiative Lessons Learned Q2 Report (Jan - Mar 2008).pdf 1Q FY 2008 Oct-Dec07.pdf 2007 Final Report .pdf 4Q FY 2007_Jul-Sep07.pdf 3Q FY 2007_Apr-Jun07.pdf 2Q FY 2007_Jan-Mar07.pdf 1Q FY 2007_Oct-Dec06.pdf 4Q FY 2006_Jul-Sep06.pdf 3Q FY 2006_Apr-Jun06.pdf

Research Reports Global Standards for Plastics Certification Training Program Evaluation Report Plastics Benchmarking Report (Web site) Occupational Forecast Study (Website) Profile and Supply Chain Coordination Practices.pdf

In 2005, Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor & Industry and its Workforce Investment Boards received a multi-year grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to improve the competitiveness of the Commonwealth’s plastics industry. This grant supports the statewide Pennsylvania Plastics Initiative, providing funding to link existing and emerging regional initiatives into a broader statewide network. This grant will support every facet of the plastics industry’s advancement, especially workforce development and technology transfer.

Network

The network is designed to use the statewide workforce

investment system to connect established or emerging local industry partnerships with statewide economic, workforce, and educational resources, as well as align and integrate the aggregate resources of the statewide educational institutions.

Partners

Partners in this effort include the Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board (WIB), Penn State University, Pennsylvania College of Technology, a consortium of local WIBs, and the statewide system of Industrial Resource Centers (IRCs), and Ben Franklin Technology Partners.

Initiative

"This initiative, and partnerships it has created, are designed to serve as a statewide template for the integration of workforce, economic development and education to support other key competitive industry clusters in the commonwealth," said Jack Gido, director of Penn State's Office of Economic and Workforce Development.

Objectives

View the grant’s primary objectives. For more information regarding this grant, please e-mail the Pennsylvania Plastics Initiative Director, Mr. Frank Sorg or call (717) 772-4966.

Consortium & Contacts

 

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Pennsylvania College of Technology, One College Ave., Williamsport, PA 17701
Phone: 1-877-PENPLAS (1-877-736-7527) | Fax: 570.320.5248
E-mail: psn@pct.edu

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