Manufacturing Extension Partnership scores $375K grant
The Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership has won a $375,000 federal grant to study the region’s supply chain and provide training in collaboration with a new advanced manufacturing center at Brunswick Landing.
The MMEP reported it is one of 10 winners of a three-year national grant through the Obama administration’s "Make it in America Challenge." That grant follows on nearly $2 million brought in by the Maine Regional Redevelopment Authority and Coastal Counties Workforce Inc. from an award by the U.S. Economic Development Administration.
The grant to MRRA will allow the redevelopment agency to retrofit a hangar to house the advanced manufacturing center it has dubbed TechPlace while the CCWI grant will support regional work force training efforts.
The latest grant to MMEP will support a supply chain study and certification training required for manufacturers to export to foreign markets. The separate grants will advance a three-year plan developed by the three entities to boost regional manufacturing in the sectors of aviation and aerospace, composites and advanced materials, renewable energy and biotechnology.
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