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Franken Touts Alexandria’s Success in Skilled Job Training

Annie Harman, Reporter, EchoPress (April 15,2014) U.S. Senator Al Franken, D-Minnesota, who has championed expanded partnerships between businesses and schools to ensure employers have enough trained workers to fill current job openings, made a visit to Alexandria on Monday, April 14. Franken stopped in to Alexandria Industries for a brief tour. He discussed local work…

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The Alexandria Model

Tom Mason, Editor-in-Chief, Enterprise Minnesota (November 2013) The urgency of attracting qualified workers to American manufacturing was underscored again this fall when the marquee event of Alexandria Industries' annual Customer Leadership Conference was a showcase about how Alexandria, MN is earning a national reputation for its results-oriented public/private partnership effort to find and retain employees…

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Overcoming Challenges and Misconceptions of Extrusion

Sean Fenske, Editor-in-Chief, Medical Design Technology (October 2013) Medical device designers can select from any array of component fabrication processes for the necessary parts for a project, such as molding, machining, and even 3D printing. While extrusion may be most often associated with medical tubing, it serves as yet another method device developers need to…

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