On November 15, 2016, Medical Packaging Inc. (MPI) was awarded a Skills Partnership Training Grant from the State of New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

The Skills Partnership Training Grant funds are competitively awarded to New Jersey employers to provide up to 50% cost reimbursement assistance to train current and/or new employees to meet the current and future skill requirements of high skilled/high wage jobs in New Jersey.

Medical Packaging Inc. will use the funds to broaden the reach of the current training budget and continue to develop a strong employee team here in New Jersey. This grant will provide MPI the opportunity for continued development of MPI’s employees focusing on learning additional or alternate ways to improve our business to better satisfy our customers.

MPI’s President/CEO, Andrew Bartels states, “We are very fortunate to be awarded this training grant from the State of NJ. We will be using this grant to train our employees on applying Lean methodologies to our manufacturing processes. The training from this grant will create the foundation for continuous improvement and growth.”