September 18, 2015
Mr. Steve Betthauser
Sales, Weld Specialty
8929 North 107th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53224
Subject: Invitation to participate in Manufacturing Day, October 2, 2015
Dear Mr. Betthauser,
GenMet Corp. has invited many local schools to take tours of our metal fabrication plant on Manufacturing Day October 2, 2015. We have had up to 255 students tour our plant during past Manufacturing Days and we welcome you to participate this year. We are interested in showing students, teachers, parents, guidance councilors, administrators and politicians the valuable careers available in manufacturing industries. We welcome you to set up a table in our shop if you can help us improve the perception of manufacturing.
We will hold a brief presentation in our training room as each school bus arrives and then we will divide students into safe groups with a GenMet employee tour guide each. Groups will tour our entire manufacturing floor: laser cutting, forming, welding and then our entire front office including engineering, purchasing, customer service and estimating. Booths will be set up with quizzes in each area. We will have awards for successful students.
Help GenMet change the perception of Manufacturing Careers.
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• The nation, state, area that uses goods, usually manufactures the goods and makes the best innovations that improve the goods.
• Manufacturers contribute $2.08 trillion to the economy and for every dollar invested in manufacturing another $1.40 in additional value is created in supporting sectors of the economy. Manufacturing has the highest multiplier effect of any economic sector.
• Manufacturing supports an estimated 17.4 million jobs in the United States and about one in six private-sector jobs.
• Manufacturers in the United States perform two-thirds of private sector research and development in the nation, driving more innovation than any other sector.
• Taken alone, manufacturing in the United States would be the 8th largest economy in the world.
• If asked how best to provide 1,000 jobs in their community, Americans overwhelmingly choose manufacturing; yet only 1 out of 3 parents would encourage their children to pursue a career in manufacturing.
• There are hundreds of thousands of open jobs in the United States.
• By 2025:
– 2.7 Million baby boomers will retire
– 700,000 jobs will open up due to economic expansion
– Over the next decade nearly 3.5 million new manufacturing jobs will be needed
– Two million U.S. manufacturing jobs are expected to go unfilled
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Our nation faces a crisis. The perception of manufacturing has been dirty dumb and dangerous and off shoring. This impression needs to be changed to reflect the safe, automated, robotic high technology, family supporting jobs currently in the industry. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census data, 98 percent of America’s manufacturing firms are small. More than one in three Americans, who work in manufacturing, work at a small business.GenMet is a small business and we are not moving to China.Manufacturers need engineers as well as production employees and also Purchasing, HR, Estimating, IT, Shipping, Marketing, Customer Service, and many other careers. Manufacturing and engineering jobs are now Safe, Smart, Sustainable and Staying Here.
Please help GenMet improve the perception of manufacturing careers by talking with Students, Parents, Teachers, Guidance Councilors, Administrators, School Board Members and Politiciansat GenMet on Manufacturing Day October 2, 2015. Call Murphy Nieskes at 262-238-7000 ext 100 to sign up.
Sincerely,
Eric Isbister
CEO GenMet Corp.
10245 N Enterprise Drive
Mequon is WI 53092
Phone (262) 238-7000 ext.125
Fax (262) 238-7007