BUSINESS DIGEST || Manufacturing Readiness Program hosted at MCCTC
Manufacturing class at MCCTC
CANFIELD
Mahoning County Career and Technical Center will offer a free seven-week Manufacturing Readiness Program beginning May 16.
This Manufacturing Readiness Program is a $3,000 value, but free due to grant funding. Only 15 spots are available, so interested parties are encouraged to contact the school immediately.
Information sessions take place every Wednesday. Interested individuals should call 330-480-4384, ext. 1214 or 1222, to find out more. More information also can be found at www.industryneedsyou.com/readiness.
TNP’s ‘Lots to Love’ program to kick off
WARREN
Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership announced a second season of its “Lots to Love” program. The Lots to Love program allows up to $6,000 worth of labor and materials to install a greening project on a newly vacant lot. Eligible lots will be those that have recently had a demolition completed by the Trumbull County Land Bank. The funding for these projects has been made available by the Ohio Housing Finance Agency, through the Neighborhood Initiative Program, which is providing the funds for the demolitions.
TNP will host a kickoff of the 2016 program with its first workshop at 5 p.m. Monday at 170 N. Park. Interested applicants must attend an application workshop or meet individually with TNP staff.
Future dates and locations for the workshops will be announced soon.
Vallourec has new brand plan
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Vallourec, world leader in premium tubular solutions and parent company of Youngstown’s Vallourec Star, is accelerating its transformation and launching a new branding campaign to reaffirm its positioning as a major market player.
Hit hard throughout the past few months by the plummeting price of oil and deferred investments from customers in the oil industry, Vallourec launched a large-scale transformation plan to reinforce its competitiveness, increase the differentiation of its offer and develop its market share.
To support this effort and improve its business activities, Vallourec is strengthening its brand with the signature, “Smart tubular solutions.”
Jobless-aid filings rise; still near low
WASHINGTON
The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits climbed last week, but remained near the lowest level in four decades, a sign that the slumping economy isn’t boosting layoffs.
The Labor Department says weekly applications for unemployment aid rose 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 257,000. Applications fell in the previous week to the lowest since November 1973. The four-week average, a less-volatile measure, dropped to 256,000, also a 42-year low.
The figures provide reassuring evidence that the economy’s slow patch isn’t panicking employers into cutting jobs.
Staff/wire reports