Materials & Manufacturing Technology Network (MMTN)

The Materials and Manufacturing Technology Network brings together companies and academic institutions using coatings, adhesives and other polymer substances. Members include paper and plastics companies, with areas of common interest including manufacturing, environmental and technology commercialization issues. The network exists to increase business opportunities and competitiveness for member companies by promoting complementary resources and shared technologies. It accomplishes this by:

• Learning more about each other; resulting in more joint ventures and partnering.
• Providing business mentoring, support and improved linkages to each other, higher education, and business service providers.
• Increasing the rate and development of technology into and by firms, as well as to improve firms' productivity and cost positions.
• Addressing industry workforce skill needs that change as rapidly as technology changes.

MATERIALS & MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY NETWORK (MMTN) IS OFFICIAL!

April 24, 2009

We are very proud to announce that, after several weeks of work carefully laying its solid foundation, the MMTN is open again for business. Its Steering Committee has determined the best mission, practices and priorities of this important network in order to meet the many challenges facing today's manufacturers. The MMTN became official on Friday, 02/08/08, with the election of Officers. Congratulations to the following outstanding people elected to Office by the MMTN Steering Committee:

Vice Chair
Charles Blanker, VP of Strategic Development, Southworth Company, Agawam, MA

Treasurer
Ann Pieroway, Western Massachusetts Program Director, Massachusetts Export Center, Holyoke, MA

Secretary
Suzanne Parker, Business Operations, Regional Technology Corporation, Springfield, MA

We are very proud of this new slate of Officers. I wish to acknowledge and thank the highly dedicated work of the very robust MMTN Steering Committee:

• Tony Peterson, President, Atlantic Fasteners, West Springfield, MA
• Bob Hyers, PhD (MIT) Dept of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, UMass, Amherst, MA
• Chuck Hatch, General Manager, Packaging Corporation of America, Northampton, MA
• Kyle Richard, Director of Sales and Marketing, Elm Electrical, Inc., Westfield, MA
• Jim Capistran, Director of CUMIRP, Polymer Sciences & Engineering Dept., UMass Amherst, MA
• Paul Horak, Quabbin Sales & Engineering LLC, Belchertown, MA
• David E. Rodrigues, PhD, Cantor Colburn LLP, Bloomfield, CT
• John Holmes, Connecticut Valve & Fitting Co., Shelton, CT
• Mark Gregoire, President, Group Insurance Management Services, Inc, Springfield, MA
• Dawn Creighton, Account Executive, Masslive.com, Springfield, MA

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