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Carey Services, Conexus Indiana partner on manufacturing training for people with disabilities

Marion-based Carey Services has partnered with Conexus Indiana to provide job-training services to people with disabilities. Supported by a gift from the Don Wood Foundation, the partnership will bring to Marion and the surrounding communities the Catapult Indiana program, which prepares Hoosiers for careers in advanced manufacturing.  

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Talent Development Best Practices from Southwest Indiana

The Value of an Employer’s Commitment to Community One of the perks of being a statewide, industry-led organization is access. Because our work requires a deep understanding of Indiana’s advanced […]

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100 IN 100: Touring Boone, Marion and Hancock County Businesses 

Late summer visits to manufacturing facilities across Indiana gave us a quick look at just how diverse Indiana’s advanced manufacturing and logistics sector can be.  

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ADDMAN Offers Hardtech Startup Accelerator Cohorts a Look into an Additive Manufacturing Scale-up

Why Convene Hardtech Entrepreneurs? Indiana is possibly the only state in the U.S. operating two hardtech startup accelerator programs concurrently: The Heritage Group Accelerator and the gBETA Industry 4.0 Accelerator. […]

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Workforce Development Lessons from Greater Lafayette

Kara Webb of Greater Lafayette Commerce How a dynamic dot-connector brought together schools, public officials and manufacturing leaders to create a vibrant program to expose kids to advanced manufacturing and […]

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Building Indiana’s Hardtech Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: The Power of Local Connectedness

Why Hardtech? With its leadership and dominance in manufacturing, Indiana is uniquely positioned to lead the U.S. in hardtech. Like any innovation venture, successful technology commercialization and product launch doesn’t […]

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Supporting school-based enterprises is an investment in your future workforce

Being connected to your local high school could be one of the smartest workforce development moves you make. One program, in particular, is well worth your investment: school-based enterprises (SBE), which give students opportunities to operate small-scale manufacturing firms from within school walls.  

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School-based enterprises deliver the goods – in many ways 

In one community, it’s a business that does precision machining for local manufacturers. In another, it’s a small operation that makes gates and metal tree grates for private and municipal […]

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Rising 30 honorees bring experience and passion to Indiana’s industries of the future

Indiana’s advanced manufacturing and logistics industries are the backbone of the Hoosier economy, employing more than 600,000 Hoosiers and making and moving products that impact our everyday lives. Honoring 30 […]

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Cub Industries manufactures workers for the future

As part of the Rising 30 celebration, Conexus Indiana sent to each honoree a box filled with items – some of which were made by Indiana-based manufacturers. Antique Candle Co. […]

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Tom Easterday: The joy of challenges and the pursuit of excellence

Three decades ago, Tom Easterday took a chance and hired on as legal counsel for an automobile manufacturing firm that was just starting to set up shop in Indiana. By […]

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