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PRODUCTION WORLD: Protecting the future.

Publication: Metalworking Production
Publication Date: 16-JUL-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The MTA team, led by president Bob Hunt and director general Graham Dewhurst, continue to pursue a positive agenda - representing manufacturing technologies, and delivering value to members.

In this time of economic uncertainty, has the MTA agenda changed? Bob Hunt believes it's useful to focus on training, where the priorities have changed: 'At our steering committee meeting, everyone was suggesting the same thing - that it's better right now to retain existing skills rather than retrain; companies are fighting to keep the skills they have employed.'

According to trainers there's never been a better time - if you're not too busy - to train people, says Hunt. 'But if that has a cost, it might be one you don't want to bear at present. So we've asked SEMTA if they can look at this. The problem is that they are not the custodians of the purse and have to go through a set of procedures to...

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