CEDT Conference 2004
– Quick Start
and technical college Certified Economic Developer
Trainers (CEDTs) from communities throughout Georgia
attended the 2004 CEDT annual conference at the
Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center located
in Atlanta’s Technology Square. CEDT, an
intensive 18-month program, provides economic
development professionals with skills to deliver
high-quality business and industry training services
and to support Georgia’s overall economic
development. The annual CEDT conference is a forum
for showcasing best practices, learning from industry
leaders and keeping abreast of Georgia’s
strategies and resources for economic development.
Currently, more than 100 CEDTs, located at 34
technical colleges and five Quick Start regional
centers, serve Georgia businesses.
P&G
Keeps It Clean in Augusta
Leading detergent manufacturer Procter
and Gamble is upgrading its packaging
system and training 130 employees to
maintain the system’s equipment
at its Augusta facility. Quick Start
and Augusta Technical College will provide
the training and develop training materials
for the P&G operations.
Quick Start has already
produced a self-study guide to teach
packaging system operators how to maintain
the equipment that is designed to help
accommodate the extra capacity as the
company ramps up production. With Quick
Start’s help, the new employees
will become operator-mechanics, capable
of both running the machines and fixing
them. Once Quick Start’s training
is completed, Augusta Tech will provide
follow-up training.
“It’s a
win-win situation,” said Plant
Manager Larry Reinhardt at the recent
training plan signing.
 “P&G
is a great company that is very important
to this community, and we’re very
pleased to be working with them,”
said Quick Start Director of Eastern
Operations Ken Boyd.
Above
right: Procter and Gamble Plant Manager
Larry Reinhardt (right) and Augusta
Tech VP of Economic Development Ted
Duzenski sign the training plan. Bottom
right: Quick Start is training P&G
machine operators to maintain the system
that packages Tide at the company’s
Augusta plant.
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STI
Ribbon-cutting –
Satish Sanan (center, with scissors),
executive chairman of STI Knowledge, recently
joined state and local officials to cut
the ribbon on a new customer service center
in Americus. Quick Start, in conjunction
with South Georgia Technical College,
helped train the first group of employees
who will be using state-of-the-art technology
to provide help desk and customer service
support for many national companies.
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Solo
Cup’s Success
Runs Over
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County’s premier cup manufacturer,
Solo Cup, is hiring 28 employees to manufacture
a new line of paper plates with training
help from Quick Start and Augusta Technical
College.
This
isn’t the first time Solo Cup has
relied on Quick Start’s customized
training and follow-up training from Augusta
Tech. The three-way partnership with Quick
Start and Augusta Tech reflects their
long-term alliance with the Augusta facility,
which was named Georgia’s Manufacturer
of the Year in the medium manufacturer
category in 2002.
Solo
Cup Plant Manager Brett McGuire couldn’t
be more pleased with the partnership.
“I’ve said it before and I’ll
say it again,” McGuire said at the
recent training plan signing, “Quick
Start is the most pro-business program
any state in the country offers.”
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photo: Examining Solo Cup’s new plate
making system are, from left, Solo Cup Human
Resources Director Robert Bailey Jr., Augusta
Tech VP of Economic Development Ted Duzenski,
Solo Cup Plant Manager Brett McGuire and
Quick Start Project Operations Coordinator
Bob Archer. Bottom photo: Quick Start will
train Solo Cup employees to operate plate
making machines such as this one.
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