On November 23^rd, Savage Arms hosted November's Strategic Interest Group meeting at their facility in beautiful Lakefield Ontario On November 23^rd, the room was filled, and there was standing room only with over 35 attendees from over 20 manufacturers...some like John Spencer, Bill Chiriw of PGI Fabrene and Luc Champagne of North Bay Machining traveled from as far away as North Bay.  Other manufacturers like Patheon, Mead West Vaco, Metals Plus and Buskro, traveled from Whitby/Ajax area! …

I would like to thank Greg Yetman at Buskro Ltd. for hosting Last month's Strategic Interest Group Meeting. 

Buskro Ltd. has been providing solutions to the mailing and printing industries since 1976.  With over 30 years of knowledge and experience they have become the trusted specialist in inkjet systems.

They design and manufacture a full line of innovative inkjet imaging equipment to meet a broad range of variable data printing (VDP) needs, from single print head addressing to multiple print…

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Last month's Strategic Interest Group meeting for the Durham Region was on Bill 168: Violence in the Workplace.  Nadine Zacks is an Associate lawyer at Hicks Morley's Toronto office, she was there to talk to Bill 168: Violence in the Workplace. Nadine's area of expertise are Labour Relations, Employment Law, Litigation, Pension and Benefits, Human Rights, Occupational Health, Information and Privacy, Workplace Safety and Insurance, Education - School Boards, Colleges, Universities,…

As the Durham region consortium continues to grow, I am very pleased with the number of organizations that are turning out for these fantastic events.  EMC is aggressively looking to turn it up in the next couple of months; we will be creating opportunities for you to bench mark world class organizations, bring in specials guest speakers to discuss issues pertaining to manufacturing and work with the Economic Development Community in your area to continue to bring you these great events.

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On Wednesday February 10^th, Messier-Dowty held a peer-to-peer networking event at their facility in Ajax: the topic of discussion was Preventative Maintenance Programs, driving towards TPM. It was an excellent turnout for the Durham Region Consortium; we had over 25 participants attend from the Durham Region and some traveled from as far as Lakefield, Cobourg and Mississauga.  Our host and event was Vijay Rajagopalan: Master Black Belt and Director Value Process Improvement.  After…

DURHAM REGION: Strategic Interest Group (SIG)

TOPIC: KAIZEN WORKSHOP / PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS AT WOODBRIDGE FOAM

 November 25^th, 2009

last month's Strategic Interest Group Meeting held at Woodbridge foam in Whitby was a huge success. This was a continuous improvement/best practices session that focused on a continuous improvement project at Woodbridge foam. We had over 16 attendees representing members and nonmembers from the Durham region consortium. Metals Plus Ltd., EHC Global, SGS Lakefield…

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I am very excited to announce that the Durham region and GTA are going to draw closer together to share best practices and benchmark at upcoming Strategic Interest Group Meetings.  I am also very excited to announce that we are going to be spending a great deal of time and effort in developing both the Durham region and the GTA consortiums.

Durham region; at this time, we will concentrate on quarterly Strategic Interest Group Meetings in order to better service our current membership.…