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Connecticut’s largest manufacturers, including Stanley Black & Decker and Pratt & Whitney, in recent years have opened multimillion-dollar training and product development centers that aim to recruit and/or upskill workers and help create a new line of advanced technology products that can compete in the global marketplace. Facing pressure to innovate and recruit their own workers, some smaller manufacturers are increasingly following suit.

Steep metal prices, longer lead times, prolong manufacturers’ struggles post early pandemic challenges.

The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) in East Hartford officially opened the Advanced Composites Technology Center in partnership with Pratt & Whitney, Goodwin University and the state. The new center is housed at Goodwin's East Hartford campus, and will use cutting-edge aerospace manufacturing technology from Pratt, according to CCAT. The center will help to train workers in building aerospace components from composite materials. 

After nearly 15 years with aerospace giant General Electric, Brittany Isherwood had gotten adept at understanding industry trends. So, when she transitioned to Farmington-based Burke Aerospace, a family-owned supply chain company that provides electric discharge machining and milling services for the aerospace, industrial gas turbines, and defense industries, she knew the company would need to upgrade its technology.

Girl Scouts of Connecticut Honor Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean for leadership studies and Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management, was honored on June 2 at the Girl Scouts of Connecticut’s annual Legacy of Leadership event. The theme of the annual event was “Man Enough to be a Girl Scout,” honoring “male business leaders, volunteers, and community leaders who have been a champion for female voices and ambition.” Sonnenfeld is founder and president of the Chief Executive Leadership Institute, which convenes off-the-recor...