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Enterprise Minnesota's Business Events
Sophisticated Agendas and High-Level Presentations Every month, Enterprise Minnesota hosts a peer-driven informational event in which high level manufacturing executives share their personal experiences regarding leading edge topics, all designed to help manufacturers become more profitable.
This month, for example, manufacturing professionals from all over Minnesota will gather in Minneapolis for an event entitled Does Your Strategy Position You for Business Growth? In that three-hour meeting, three prominent CEOs - Sarah Richards, Jones Metal Products; Tom Renk, Alliant Castings; and Tom Daggett, Hutchinson Manufacturing - will discuss how their companies have increased profitability through focused, strategic long-term plans of action. The event is scheduled for Dec. 12 from 8 to 11 am at Padilla Speer Beardsley, 1101 West River Parkway, Minneapolis. Register online.
According to Bob Kill, Enterprise Minnesota's president and CEO, the Business Events combine two of Enterprise Minnesota's greatest strengths: expertise and credibility.
The events, he says, apply the expertise and hands-on experience of Enterprise Minnesota's seasoned force of business consultants to lay out a meaningful agenda of timely topics. They also attract high level executives - both as presenters and observers.
"It is a tribute to the quality of these events that so many executives take time off to prepare and deliver presentations with an amazing level of candor," Kill says. "It is an equal tribute to see so many CEOs in the audience."
Events for 2013 include the following:
• Jan. 23: Growing Your Business Internationally -
Exporting Strategies in 2013
• Feb. 13: GreenLean® - Eliminate Time and Energy
Wastes to Cut Costs and Grow Business
• March 13: Proactive Marketing for Manufacturers - A
Business Growth Strategy
• April 18: 2013 State of Manufacturing®
• May 15: Lean Office - Leaning Your Entire Enterprise
• June 1: Quality Management - ISO Processes Power
Your Business Management System
• Sept. 18: The Value of Your Business - What Expert
Buyers Are Looking For
• Oct. 17: Developing Leaders at All Levels of Your
Company (TWI)
• Nov. 13: Creating a Business Strategy to Implement
Your Company Vision
• Dec. 11: Solving Business Problems - A Practical
"Failsafe" Approach
Click here to register for Business Events.
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Growing Your Business Internationally - Exporting Strategies in 2013
Wednesday, Jan. 23
8-11am
Uponor
5925 148th St West
Apple Valley, MN
Cost: Early Bird, $79 by Jan. 8; Regular $119
Register Online
What to Expect: Exporting has great potential to grow a company's profitability. Come hear from these successful manufacturing executives to find out what companies are doing to create a proactive business strategy to sell internationally and how they're connecting with international business experts who help navigate the export process..
Speakers: • Allan Cronen, President & CEO, GVL Poly
• Peter Lyle, Vice President of International Sales,
Schaefer Ventilation
• Mike Wilcox, Vice President of Sales & Marketing,
Delkor Systems
• Joel Wittenbraker, President, MacTech
Register Online Today!
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Industry News Emerson's Shakopee Job Plan in 'Early Phases'
Emerson Electric Co. says it's in the "early phases" of reviewing multiple options for an expansion that could lead to 500 jobs in Shakopee. The St. Louis-based company is eyeing a 508,000-square-foot facility that ADC Telecommunications Inc. built years ago but never occupied, located in Shakopee's industrial park. The division, Emerson Process Management Rosemount, would bring 400 new jobs and about 100 transfers to the site, the proposal says. Of the 500, about 300 would be salaried jobs and 200 would be hourly wage positions. twincities.com article continues
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Chamber, Union Form Pro-Mining Group
The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, the state's largest business group, and the Minnesota Building and Construction Trades Council have formed "Jobs for Minnesotans" to promote development of the state's first-ever copper mining operations.
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If You've Got the Skills, She's Got the Job
Traci Tapani is not your usual CEO. For the last 19 years, she and her sister have been co-presidents of Wyoming Machine, a sheet metal company they inherited from their father in Stacy, Minn. I met Tapani at a meeting convened by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development to discuss one of its biggest challenges today: finding the skilled workers that employers need to run local businesses.
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University of Minnesota Gets Federal Grant to Advance Filtration Technology
The University of Minnesota has received a $1.8 million federal energy grant to develop membrane technology that can speed up filtration processes in manufacturing and make them more energy efficient.
The three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy will help the university commercialize its research.
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Ecolab Opens New Training Lab in Eagan
Ecolab Inc.makes dozens of products related to cleaning and sanitation for restaurants and hotels, and its army of sales associates now has a state-of-the-art training facility to learn the latest technology. On Nov. 29, the St. Paul-based company officially opened a $10 million, 51,000-square-foot building on its Eagan campus. The center also provides lab space for the company's research-and-development work.
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DEED Awards Training Grant For Minnesota Diversified Industries Workforce
The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) has awarded a $260,000 grant under its Minnesota Job Skills Partnership (MJSP) to train 416 employees of Minnesota Diversified Industries (MDI).The grant will support a partnership between Itasca Community College and MDI, a nonprofit that employs people with disabilities in competitive business enterprises. MDI offers a variety of products and services to business customers from locations in St. Paul, Hibbing and Grand Rapids.The grant will provide entry-level and advanced training and retraining for production and assembly, manufacturing and managerial employees in lean practices, communication and safety.
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Even More Minerals Reported at Twin Metals Mine Site
Already expected to be the largest underground mine in Minnesota history and one of the largest untapped copper-nickel deposits in the world, Twin Metals officials this week announced that the wealth of valuable minerals at their proposed mine near Ely is even bigger than previously stated.
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Made-in-Minnesota Exports See Record Third Quarter at $5.1 Billion
Minnesota-made exports recorded their best third quarter ever this year, totaling $5.1 billion.
Overall exports of products -- ranging from medical equipment to iron ore and dozens of others -- managed to climb 1 percent despite worries about a global economic slowdown. "The fact that Minnesota companies and especially manufacturers were able to forge ahead even when there are significant headwinds out there" bodes well for the state, said Ed Dieter, acting executive director of the Minnesota Trade Office. Machinery remained the state's top export category, with $950 million in sales in the quarter. Medical instrument exports totaled $813 million, a 17 percent jump, and farther down the list, iron ore saw a 51 percent jump, to $202 million.
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Upcoming EventsPre-Employment Hiring: Six Tips to Help Avoid Liability
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce Webinar
Dec. 18, 2012
Noon - 1:15pm
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2013 Session Priorities
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce
Jan. 9, 2013
4-9 pm
St Paul RiverCentre
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Minnesota Green Chemistry 2013: Beakers to Business Plans
Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
321 19th Ave S
Minneapolis
Jan. 25, 2013
8am
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GreenLean® - Eliminating Time & Energy Wastes to Cut Costs and Grow Business
Enterprise Minnesota Business Event
Feb. 13, 2013
8-11am
Great River Energy
12300 Elm Creek Blvd.North
Maple Grove
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