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    IMEC Lean Manufacturing Overview with Simulation Workshop

    February 28th, 2012 | Featured, News

    Meeting today’s manufacturing challenges demands a lean enterprise – streamlining product design and manufacturing by applying Lean Manufacturing principles, concepts and techniques. The primary focus of this effort is the continuous elimination of waste in the company’s business processes. Implementing Lean practices involves changing a work area or a business process to maximize efficiency, improve [...]

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    Area Manufacturers Hiring Skilled Workers

    February 6th, 2012 | Featured, News

    New JWCC Welding Training Opens Pipeline of Skilled Workers for Area Manufacturers A new four-week basic welding training program at John Wood Community College is opening a pipeline for area manufacturers seeking skilled workers for dozens of open positions. Because of the need to place welders in immediate openings, John Wood created a program to [...]

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    2011 Business Developments: Annual Meeting Recap

    January 17th, 2012 | Featured, News, Uncategorized

    2011 was another great year for the Quincy/Adams County, Illinois region. The following is the “Business Developments” section of the speech our 2010/2011 GREDF chair, Connie Schroeder, gave during our 2012 Annual Meeting on January 11, 2012. Our job at GREDF is to tell our story, that is, the story of Quincy and Adams County, [...]

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  • 2012 Annual Meeting

    GREDF Annual Meeting – January 11, 2012

    December 30th, 2011 | Featured, News

    You are Invited! GREDF’s 2012 Annual Meeting will be held Wednesday, January 11th at the Oakley Lindsay Center, 300 Civic Center Plaza, in Quincy. A cash bar will be available beginning at 5:00 pm with the meeting starting at 5:45 pm. No RSVP is required and the event is free and open to the public. [...]

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    Adams County Unemployment Remains Steady

    November 28th, 2011 | Featured, News, Unemployment Rate

    Unemployment in Adams County continues to remain steady. Adams County’s rate for October 2011 was 6.8% which is 0.1% higher than last month and a year ago in October. Adams County has the fourth-lowest unemployment rate out of 102 counties in Illinois. Quincy’s rate was 6.7 percent, with IDES statisticians saying there are 40,348 people [...]

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