Go West with Mack for MD&M
It’s January, so as sure as the mountains of Vermont are capped with snow, the Mack team is hard at work with final preparations for Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) West.
The world’s largest annual medtech event returns to Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif., Feb. 7-9, 2017, with more than 20,000 industry professionals coming together for three days of sourcing, networking and education. Mack will have a significant presence with a prominent location – Booth No. 1801 – where the Company’s senior management and sales teams will introduce attendees to our capabilities as a full-service contract manufacturer with specialties in plastics design, prototyping, molding, sheet metal fabrication, machining and turnkey system assembly.
Whether you are interested in Mack Medical, Mack Molding, Mack Technologies, Mack Prototype or Synectic Engineering, our vertically integrated services have been organized to benefit your business throughout the product life cycle. The most important piece of the puzzle, however, is you! That is why we are extending an invitation to our friends, old and new, to take advantage of free expo admission – a $95 value! Use our promo code “INVITE” when registering to claim a complimentary Expo Pass. Additionally, you can use it to get 20% of a full conference pass if you are looking to take advantage of the education tracks.
For more than 30 years, MD&M West has been connecting industry-leading suppliers with the latest products and technology, helping bring products from concept to market. In addition to unparalleled networking opportunities and educational content, MD&M West is collocated with synergistic events like Plastec West, Design & Manufacturing Pacific, ATX West, Electronics West and WestPack, offering an unmatched interactive face-to-face environment to share ideas, challenges and solutions with like-minded peers.
If you would like to schedule a specific meeting time in our booth, please contact your business development manager, or Joan Magrath, Vice President of Sales & Engineering, at joan.magrath@mack.com or (802) 375-0312.
We look forward to seeing you at this year’s event – and remember you can find us at Booth No. 1801!
Statesville Continues Making A Difference
Not a team to rest on its laurels, Mack’s Statesville, N.C., employees continue to give back to the community.
Hope, love, courage, faith, strength, cure – these were the words that drove one of Statesville’s latest efforts as team members joined together Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, in the Pink Ribbon campaign as part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Pink Ribbon is the most prominent symbol of breast cancer awareness throughout the world, and team members did their part by wearing all things pink.
In addition to donning brightly colored clothes – which many employees wore to honor loved ones who are fighting or have been lost to breast cancer – the team used the opportunity to promote awareness of the need for annual screenings and preventive care for women.
It is estimated more than 40,000 women and nearly 500 men die from breast cancer annually. Recognizing the impact of cancer in the lives of many people around the world, the Mack family supports the American Cancer Society’s recommendation of beginning cancer screenings at age 40 or sooner if there is family history of breast cancer so that individuals may utilize family history and preventative exams to best understand their risk.
Raising awareness in the fight against breast cancer was only one of the good works done by the Statesville team in 2016. The team again raised donations for My Sister’s House – a special place that addresses the needs of those fleeing domestic or sexual violence by providing sanctuary in a warm living environment – collecting holiday gifts for families in their time of need.
Statesville was also recognized by Purple Heart Homes, a charity that helps veterans with service-related injuries, in the organization’s newsletter. Mack’s Statesville employees raised more than $7,000 to be used to bring quality of life housing solutions to disabled veterans.
Way to represent Mack Statesville!
Merry Mackmas 2016!
The Mack team is at it again celebrating the holidays with its annual tree lighting and of course a new carol for 2016 – “Have a Holly Jolly Mackmas!”
Mack’s Made in Vermont Days Introduces Students to Manufacturing Careers
From Oct. 24-28, 2016, Mack hosted its biennial Made in Vermont Days at its Arlington, Vt., Headquarters – bringing local high school juniors and seniors into the Company’s manufacturing space to learn about manufacturing and engineering careers through tours, workshops and presentations.
The program is designed to reach students looking to go to a four year school, as well as certification and technical programs, and those who may wish to enter the workforce directly. This year Mack welcomed four schools – Arlington Memorial High School, Southwest Vermont Career Development Center, Long Trail and Burr & Burton Academy, as well as local home school students. In all, nearly 50 students, educators and parents participated.
Students toured the Company’s HQ through the lens of one particular product manufactured there that incorporates virtually Mack’s entire vertical integration of services. Following the tour students participated in a competitive workshop introducing the theory behind manufacturing flow before learning about careers available to them with the Company’s Director of Human Resources, hearing business insights from the HQ Plant Manager and an open Q&A with these key staff members. Students also were given the opportunity to sign-up for more in-depth workshops to be held at a later date in the following disciplines: Injection Molding, Machining, Sheet Metal Fabrication, Manufacturing and Engineering.
By hosting the event in October, Mack is able to leverage the power and name recognition of Manufacturing Day and Manufacturing Month, creating additional pull through while increasing access to supportive resources. Additionally, Mack benefited from its relationship with the Vermont Manufacturing Extension Center (VMEC), whose team trained some of the Company’s up and coming employees to conduct the manufacturing flow workshop featured during the event, which proved fun and informative for students, putting some context behind what they had seen on the manufacturing floor.
Mack’s Made in Vermont Days represent just one facet of the Company’s outreach efforts to cultivate the next generation of talent needed to drive manufacturing in the Northeastern United States. With a goal of building a sustainable workforce by encouraging the next generation of engineers, technicians and professionals, Mack regularly brings in middle and high school students, sends engineers into the classroom and has even had programs for children as young as kindergarten. In addition to Made in Vermont Days, Mack’s high point in this effort is an internship program that has hosted close to 100 interns from schools like UVM, WPI, RPI and RIT. The Company is now starting to recognize the fruits of its labor with a record number of interns – six – joining Mack as full-time employees in 2016.
Mack Brings Real Life Science Into the Classroom
On Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, Mack Business Unit Director Dwalin DeBoer went back to school, but this time she was the teacher – if only for an hour.
DeBoer was the Scientist of the Month at Fisher Elementary School in Arlington, Vt. Invited by Fourth Grade Teacher Charlie Cummings, DeBoer was asked to inspire students with her knowledge of chemical engineering, as well as her experience of being an engineer at Mack.
DeBoer – who worked with GE’s then plastics division before joining Mack as a manufacturing engineer in 2000 – covered everything from atoms and molecules to the periodic table and scientific method. She even conducted an experiment in which a hard-boiled egg was pulled into a beaker, providing demonstrative proof that air molecules are in motion.
Using science, first-hand experience and a little humor, her lessons reinforced the curriculum students are covering in the classroom while boosting their understanding of the types of jobs available to them right in their Vermont hometown if they stay interested in science and engineering.
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