Manufacturing Day welcomes SPI as Silver sponsor.
Press Release Summary:
Roster of Manufacturing DaySM sponsors grows again as SPI-The Plastics Industry Trade Association, recently pledged their support to this national movement at the Silver level. Manufacturing Day sponsors provide resources to support manufacturers participating in the program, a grassroots effort by U.S. manufacturers to improve public perception of manufacturing in America by coordinating awareness-raising activities at a variety of locations across the country on October 2, 2015.
Original Press Release:
Manufacturing Day Welcomes SPI-The Plastics Industry Trade Association as Silver Sponsor for 2015
ROCKFORD, Ill., – The roster of Manufacturing DaySM 2015 sponsors grows again as SPI-The Plastics Industry Trade Association, recently pledged their support to this national movement at the Silver level. This is third consecutive sponsorship year for SPI.
Manufacturing Day sponsors provide the resources to support manufacturers participating in the program, a grassroots effort by U.S. manufacturers to improve public perception of manufacturing in America by coordinating awareness-raising activities at a variety of locations across the country on October 2, 2015.
Manufacturing Day is an annual national event, executed at the local level, that supports hundreds of manufacturers across the nation as they host students, teachers, parents, job seekers and other local community members at open houses designed to showcase modern manufacturing technology and careers. A panel of co-producers comprised of the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, International (FMA), the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), the Manufacturing Institute (MI), the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), and guest producer Industrial Strength Marketing (ISM) provide the centralized support necessary to coordinate this nationwide array of simultaneous events. The national media partners for the event are Edge Factor and the Science Channel and the national movie partner is American Made Movie.
“The co-producing organizations appreciate the continued support of SPI which has demonstrated its belief in the Manufacturing Day concept since inception.  We are grateful for their support and the passion with which they encourage their member companies to participate and host open house events for their communities,” said Ed Youdell, president and CEO of the Fabricators & Manufacturers Association. “There are so many interesting and diverse companies in this industry sector and we hope they will all participate.”
To learn more about Manufacturing Day, visit www.mfgday.com. Organizations that wish to become involved as official sponsors should call 888-394-4362 or email info@mfgday.com.
For more information about each of the co-producers, please contact:
Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, Intl.
Patricia Lee
Director of Marketing
(815) 227-8286
patl@fmanet.org
National Institute of Standards & Technology
Jennifer Huergo
Director of Media Relations
(301) 975-6343
jennifer.huergo@nist.gov
National Association of Manufacturers and
The Manufacturing Institute
Mallory Micetich
Director, Media Relations
(202) 637-3085
mmicetich@nam.org
Industrial Strength Marketing
Joey Strawn
Integrated Marketing Director
(866) 529-8908
joey@marketstrong.com
Science Channel
Joanne Schioppi
Director of Communications
(212) 548-5084
joanne_schioppi@discovery.com
Edge Factor
Larissa Hofman
Director of Communications
(716) 805-3370
lhofman@edgefactor.com
