Quick Start, volume 20, number 1

Technical College System of Georgia Volume 20, Number 1
CENTERS OF ACTION
Checking in on the latest from Quick Start's statewide training centers
Starts on page 10
From top: Kia Georgia Training Center; Georgia Advanced Manufacturing Training Center; and Georgia BioScience Training Center

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Quick Notes

Quick Start's training trends, and a pause for re ection

"... over the past decades, Quick Start has helped attract thousands of new companies to Georgia, creating more than a million new jobs. None of that 2 would have happened without Dr. Breeden's vision."

Just a little more than 10 years ago, Quick Start operated from regional of ces located around Georgia. Since then, dramatic changes have transformed manufacturing and other businesses. Likewise, Quick Start has adapted to those changes. In this issue, we catch up with Quick Start's latest innovations in the development and delivery of customized workforce training.
The biggest change has been the Quick Start training centers built and operated to customize training in a wide range of advanced manufacturing technologies, from biotech to automation and robotics. The rst was the Kia Georgia Training Center in West Point, Ga., to support the revival of industry in West Georgia. That investment has paid off with the creation of more than 15,000 direct jobs in the region. And now we are preparing to open our latest, the Georgia Advanced Manufacturing Training Center in Savannah, Ga., to support new and existing businesses in that booming region.
Remembering Dr. Kenneth Breeden Almost always in this newsletter we celebrate Georgia's good news. New jobs. New
companies. New opportunities. Sometimes, however, the news isn't always welcomed. So it was this past December when we lost Dr. Kenneth Breeden, one of Georgia's visionary leaders. We could write a book about Dr. Breeden's intelligence, humor, and deep commitment to improving lives. Dr. Breeden led the development of the Technical College System as we know it today, and de ned Quick Start's mission and vision. His impact on Georgians is immeasurable, but consider this: over the past decades, Quick Start has helped attract thousands of new companies to Georgia, creating more than a million new jobs. None of that would have happened without Dr. Breeden's vision.
We at Quick Start are proud to be living his vision, and continuing what he called "a tradition that is based on hope, dedication, and dreams."
Jackie Rohosky
Deputy Commissioner
jrohosky@georgiaquickstart.org

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Table of Contents

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3 Events Around the State 5 Accelerated Development
Quick Start helps P&G hires get up to speed

6 Boom Box U.S. Corrugated Inc. and

10 Centers of Action Each of Quick Start's training centers

Quick Start team up for growth

provides unique training and learning

8 On A Roll Quick Start's predictive maintenance

opportunities for companies and future employees alike

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training helps Irving Consumer Products prepare for the expected

15 Quick Start FY2018 The scal year in review

Volume 20, Number 1 Published by Georgia Quick Start www.GeorgiaQuickStart.org Quick Start is a registered service mark of the Technical College System of Georgia -- Matt Arthur, Commissioner. Please address comments and questions to: Dr. Rodger Brown, Executive Director of Marketing and Strategic Media rbrown@georgiaquickstart.org Georgia Quick Start 75 Fifth St. NW, Suite 400, Atlanta, GA 30308

Events
Next Generation Manufacturing Event

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From left: Jackie Rohosky, Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) deputy commissioner, Dr. Jurgen Hring, owner and president of Hring Precision's parent company Anton Hring KG, and Andrea Daniel, president of Athens Technical College

Hring Precision pinpoints Georgia

Hring Precision USA LP, Georgia Quick Start and Athens Technical College formalized a training plan in a ceremony at the company.
Hring provides high precision parts and assemblies for nearly every car in the world. The 600,000-plussquare-foot Lavonia, Ga., plant manufactures parts for transmissions, brakes, sensors, injectors, steering, undercarriages, camshaft and camshaft settings and e-mobility for the auto industry and is expected to hire 400 employees from the Hart County region, with the plant fully functional by July.
Dr. Jurgen Hring, owner and president of Hring Precision's parent company Anton Hring KG, said the company looked at other sites but Georgia "was the best," citing a close connection to some of its customers and Harts eld-Jackson Atlanta International Airport as key factors in the site decision.

He expects to hire 300 to 400 employees within three years.
The rst products being manufactured are parts for fuel injectors and the company's largest customer is Bosch,
which has a plant in Charleston, S.C.
Andrea Daniel, president of Athens Technical College, recalls it was four years ago she was invited to a meeting with North Georgia Technical College and from that meeting ATC took "a non-traditional approach" to send some of its students to Hring's headquarters in Bubsheim, Germany,
for intensive and extensive training in the German language and culture and Hring's culture. The partnership with Hring is unique for Georgia Quick Start, says Jackie Rohosky, deputy commissioner. "And we are with you for the long haul. We're going to bring our talents to your program to help you grow."

The Next Generation Man-

ufacturing event, held Oct. 2,

2018, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium

in downtown Atlanta, brought

together hundreds of manufactur-

ing executives from Georgia and

the Southeast. From left: Aprio

CEO and Managing Partner Richard

Kopelman, Next Generation Manu-

facturing Executive Director Regina

Maddox and Metcam President Bruce

Hagenau were part of the day-long

event, which included panel discus-

sions and the release of the 2018

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Georgia Manufacturing Survey.

Georgia Manufacturing Summit

The Georgia Manufacturing Summit was held Oct. 10, 2018, at Cobb Galleria Centre in metro Atlanta. Jamey Jackson, president of Malone Workforce Solutions, shown at podium, was the moderator of a workforce development panel discussion at the fourth annual summit, hosted by the Georgia Manufacturing Alliance. The summit highlighted manufacturing successes in Georgia. More than 40 organizations and companies were represented at the event.

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Carrying the Torch

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, the Georgia Automotive Manufacturers

Association hosted the annual Southern Automotive Conference

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recently at the Cobb Galleria Centre in metro Atlanta.

Despite the attraction of hundreds of auto-related displays and

panels of stellar industry professionals, Quick Start contributed to the

excitement with the only booth display that breathed re.

Virtual re, of course, but real clouds of show-biz smoke and

crackling sound effects that attracted crowds to the virtual welder at

Quick Start's booth, where visitors could try their hand at one of the

most in-demand skills in manufacturing.

Photos, from top left: Matt Arthur, commissioner of the

Technical College System of Georgia, tries his hand at the virtual welder,

with help from Bobby Free, Quick Start Advanced Manufacturing

Technology training coordinator. Don Price, Quick Start training

coordinator, demonstrates the virtual welder to Charles Stallworth,

director of business recruitment at Georgia Power, and Jackie Rohosky,

deputy commissioner. Technical colleges participating included Lanier

Tech, bottom left, Atlanta Tech and Gwinnett Tech. Other partners in

the workforce development pavilion included TCSG, bottom right,

Georgia Southern, Central Educational Center, Georgia Tech and

The University of Georgia.

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Accelerated Quick Start helps P&G hires Development get up to speed in training

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Procter & Gamble routinely trains its new Albany, Ga.,

employees in-house, but in 2018

decided it needed help from Quick

Start to boost the training level.

"The Georgia Quick Start pro-

gram has really helped us at P&G

accelerate development of new

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employees, about 39," says Werhner

Washington, plant manager, P&G Albany, where the

Procter & Gamble, a long-time partner with Georgia Quick Start, turned once again to the program to accelerate training of new employees, who will eventually replace a retiring workforce.

consumer products

giant manufactures and lubrication, as well as seals

Washington says. "This allowed us

Bounty paper towels and gaskets and introduction to

to accelerate the development of

and Charmin bath tissue. "Many

piping systems.

these folks."

of these new employees

The Albany facility,

who went through this

which employs almost 700,

program, and with only

is the primary supplier of

about a year of experi-

Bounty and Charmin to the

ence, are nearing the skill

southeastern United States

level of those who have

and Puerto Rico.

10 years of service."

In addition to the

For P&G, that's huge,

production role, the P&G

he says. The plant hasn't

plant also has a devel-

hired any new plant technicians since 2009, and has an aging work-

"The Georgia Quick Start program has really helped us at P&G accelerate

opment site for Charmin products responsible for gauging consumer needs

force, Washington says. The recent Quick Start training allowed P&G

development of new employees."
-- WERHNER WASHINGTON, PLANT MANAGER, P&G ALBANY

and translating them into product innovation.
The Albany facility,

"to develop employees

which is one of the

who can step in [with maintenance]

"At P&G, we can train on our Cincinnati-based company's largest

as some of our workforce nears

technology, but some of these areas, plants, is the largest manufacturer

retirement."

like mechanical fasteners, pumps

in Dougherty County, in southwest

The recent training included

and valves, the only way our folks Georgia, and celebrated its 40th

mechanical fasteners, drive systems can learn is through experience,"

year in the area in 2013.

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A U.S. Corrugated employee oversees plain boxes as they run through a machine that prints and cuts to a client's speci cations.

Boom Box 6 Georgia Quick Start helps U.S. Corrugated Inc. grow in Covington

The growth in e-commerce has corrugated packaging materials, in done more than make shopping Covington is growing and projected

in your bathrobe more socially

to add 75 jobs, with Georgia Quick

acceptable.

Start training its new employees.

It's also made the corrugated

U.S. Corrugated opened its

box your new best friend. (You

Covington facility, one of three

probably call it cardboard, but see full-line corrugator plants for the

the sidebar on the next page to

Washington, Pa.-based manufac-

learn the difference.)

turer, in January 2018 and is adding

That means more business for second and third shifts to keep up

companies making corrugated pack- with booming demand.

aging. And it's not just e-commerce

The manufacturing plant not

-- food and beverage companies

only makes corrugated board, the

make up almost half the market for building block of a box, it also

corrugated materials. Forecasters

operates converters, which make

predict that the market will grow custom boxes for various clients.

to almost $300

billion in the U.S. alone within the next decade.

"Quick Start has provided training every step of the way and allowed us

It's one reason U.S. Corrugated Inc., a national manufacturer of

to meet our expansion goals."
-- DENNIS MEHIEL, U.S. CORRUGATED FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN AND CEO

To develop training on this new technology, Quick Start carried out detailed analysis of the company's equipment, processes, and quality standards, said John Morrison, training manager at the Quick Start/Athens Training Center and lead for the U.S. Corrugated project.
Quick Start's Sterling Daniel and Toney L. Ferguson discuss improving training materials for U.S. Corrugated.

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From left: The Covington plant uses several quality control devices to check for product accuracy. Quick Start Training Manager John Morrison and Nelson Concepcion, U.S. Corrugated quality assurance manager, measure a at box for custom speci cations.

"This is U.S. Corrugated's

Quick Start is helping the

are running 1,500 feet per minute,"

latest plant," Morrison explained. company with comprehensive

Morrison said, "if something goes

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"It has some very new equipment training that includes safety,

wrong, you can have a whole lot of

that hasn't been used before in the process controls and operations.

wasted paper."

United States by the company."

A critical

"We're pioneering an

The company recognizes the

emphasis is on

innovative 21st-century

value of customized training.

quality. Morrison

manufacturing culture

"Quick Start has provided train-

explained the

to go along with our

ing every step of the way and

material has to

cutting-edge equip-

allowed us to meet our expansion be continually

ment," Mehiel said.

goals," said Dennis Mehiel, U.S.

monitored for

"Quality control is a huge part of

Corrugated founder, chairman and warping, humidity, pH levels and what we offer. The way we meet our

CEO. "That has been a win for

other factors.

customers' demand is with quality

U.S. Corrugated and for our

"There is a high degree of

throughout, customer service

employees in Covington."

quality checking because when you and reliability."

A warp gauge helps provide quality Toney L. Ferguson uses a warp gauge to check a stack of corrugated

control on nished product.

material for warp.

Cardboard v. Corrugated
Cardboard typically refers to a thick paper stock or heavy pulp-type board. Think of material used for cereal boxes or greeting cards.
Corrugated board is made from multiple layers of heavy paper used for liners and uted (ruf ed) medium. Think of a typical shipping box from an online retailer or pizza delivery box.

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Quick Start Training Coordinator David Gagnon, center, shows Irving Consumer Products employees how to use Ultrasonic Testing to check equipment for leaks.
On A Roll

Quick Start trained Irving employees on several predictive maintenance practices as part of Advanced Manufacturing Training.
Quick Start's predictive maintenance training helps Irving Consumer Products prepare for the expected

Sometimes, making products consumers expect to be as

tissue machine that integrates a

two new courses in predictive

complete tissue production process maintenance: Ultrasonic Testing

soft as possible requires the use

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of some hardcore advanced

in one piece of equipment. The automated

and Infrared Thermography. Infrared

manufacturing technology.

system requires

Thermography,

That's the case with Irving

Irving's main-

for example,

Consumer Products, a Canada-

tenance team

uses heat

based company that plans to create to be prepared

detection to

200 new jobs when it opens a

to identify potential problems

spot potential problems in motors,

new $400-million tissue manufac- before they can impact production. bearings and shafts, said Bobby

turing facility in Macon, Ga. in

"Anticipating issues before they Free, AMT training coordinator.

early 2019. Irving will produce

become problems is critical for

"You establish a baseline on

ultra-premium quality household complex operations like this," said equipment and you document

paper products including soft bath Vic Desmarais, director of Quick

the temperature over time," Free

tissue and absorbent paper towels. Start's Advanced Manufacturing

explained. "If you see temperatures

A key part of Irving's new

Training (AMT) team. To meet

rising, that can indicate damage or

operation is the Advantage ThruAir Irving's needs, Quick Start designed a malfunction."

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Irving Consumer Products plans to add 200 employees to its new tissue plant in Macon, Ga.

Irving manufactures bath and facial tissue and paper towels for both the U.S. and Canadian markets.

"All of our people so far have gone

equipment," said Susan Williams,

Irving's Macon facility, said that Quick Start and Central

through the training ... It not only Quick Start

Georgia Technical College have

gets our people trained, but it helps

training coordinator for the

been critical in meeting the company's accelerated start-up sched-

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us save money."

project. "Irving's entire warehouse

ule, and ensuring all employees have a common foundation

-- BRIAN SOLHEIM, PLANT MANAGER, IRVING MACON will be made up

understanding the operation.

of laser-guided

"All of our people so far

While the innovative technology

vehicles (LGV)

have gone through the training,"

and advanced training can give

and robotics, so we developed

Solheim said, noting the numerous

Irving a competitive edge, a wide

customized LGV and robotic

bene ts to Quick Start's customized

range of additional Quick Start

safety training." Additional

training.

training is being provided to help hands-on training included

"The collaboration is great,"

ensure overall success.

manufacturing technologies and

he said. "It not only gets our

"This plant is technologically

reading complex schematics.

people trained, but it helps us

advanced with state-of-the-art

Brian Solheim, plant manager at save money."

The Valmet machine
Produced by the company Valmet, a leading innovator in the pulp and paper industry, the Advantage ThruAir tissue machine will be used by Irving Consumer Products at the new Macon facility.
Robert K. Irving, president of Irving Consumer Products, said that installing the innovative system at the new plant "will help Irving Consumer Products continue to grow and deliver premium quality tissue paper products to our customers," increasing production capacity for bath tissue and towel products with excellent performance strength and absorbency.

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For Kia, West Point is home

What began as a trade mission to Korea in 2003 resulted in one of Georgia's top manufacturers: Kia Motors Manufacturing

Georgia Inc.

As Kia executives began considering Georgia for the plant in West Point,

Kia Georgia Training Center
YEAR OPENED: 2008

Ga., a Quick Start team drew up training plans for what Kia would need to open and operate the plant. The result was construction of the Kia Georgia Training Center, completed in 2008.

LOCATION: West Point, Ga.

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PURPOSE: Houses robotics labs,

Now, Kia is in its 10th year of production and in 2019 expects to produce its 3 millionth

assessment stations and other

vehicle, making West Point

training labs to facilitate Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia Inc., which announced in 2006 it would build a $1.2 billion automotive assembly plant in West Point.
MILESTONE: KMMG recently began production of the Telluride, its largest SUV, at the West Point facility.

the hub of job growth in the region. Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia is responsible for 15,000 direct jobs in the state.
At the West Point facility, Kia manufactures the award-winning Sorento,

Optima and has just

begun production on the

Telluride, the company's

largest SUV.

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Kia rolls out the Telluride
Gov. Brian Kemp spoke at the start of production ceremony at Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia Inc. Feb. 15, noting that Kia represents 15,000 jobs in the West Point, Ga., region and Kia's corporate footprint represents a $3.7 billion investment."Because of strong principled leadership, the company understands the importance of a solid workforce, heavily investing in its team members and encouraging them to be involved in community engagement. This foresight pays immeasurable dividends and directly contributes to the company's success across the globe."

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"Because of strong principled leadership, [Kia] understands the importance of a solid workforce, heavily investing in its team members and encouraging them to be involved
in community engagement."
-- BRIAN KEMP, GOVERNOR, STATE OF GEORGIA
From left: Stuart Countess, Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia Inc. chief administrative of cer; KMMG President & CEO Jang Soo (Jason) Shin; Consul General of the Republic of Korea Young-jun Kim; Gov. Brian Kemp; Kia Super Bowl LIII ad star Korbin Pope; Kia Motors North America President & CEO SeungKyu (Sean) Yoon; Georgia Department of Economic Development Commissioner Pat Wilson; Technical College System of Georgia Commissioner Matt Arthur; and Georgia Department of Community Affairs Commissioner Christopher Nunn.

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Quick Start/Athens Training Center

YEAR OPENED: 2013

Quick Start and Caterpillar -- A Showcase Training Partnership

LOCATION: Athens, Ga.
PURPOSE: Originally designed to support Caterpillar's Athens plant,

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Quick Start's customized training services were a major incentive for Caterpillar's decision. To support the plant's 3-5-year hiring sched-

ule, Quick Start installed equipment in a dedicated facility on the Athens

the Quick Start/Athens Training Center today serves regional companies with a custom-built Simulated Work Environment (SWE), assembly,

Technical College campus. Quick Start trained new employees on tools,

welding and other advanced manu-

parts and equipment unique to Caterpillar.

facturing training.

A highlight was the Simulated Work Environment (SWE), a scale model

MILESTONE: Since Caterpillar

of the production facility that emphasized principles and processes related

began production in Athens in 2013,

to performance, quality and values.

more than 48,000 machines have

Today, the Quick Start/Athens Training Center provides training for

been produced.

manufacturers throughout the region.

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Athens site
announced

Quick Start begins operation of the Athens
Training Center

Quick Start trainees top 700

Quick Start training reaches 1,500 new
employees

FEB

MAR

2012

2012

Athens groundbreaking
ceremony

JAN MAR 2013 2013
Day one in the Athens Facility

JUL

DEC

JUL

2014

2014

2015

Quick Start's welding training begins with 100%
certification score by corporate engineers

DEC 2014
30,000 machines produced since day one

5 Year Anniversary
OCT 2018
48,000 machines produced

Caterpillar Athens Marks Fifth Anniversary
Caterpillar recently celebrated the fth anniversary of its Building Construction Products Division's facility in Athens, Ga., where about 1,600 people are employed making mini hydraulic excavators and small, track-type tractors. Since starting production in 2013, the Georgia operation has turned out 48,000 machines.

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Constant Companion --

Quick Start's BioScience

Georgia BioScience Training Center

Training Center Goes With the Flow

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YEAR OPENED: 2015
LOCATION: Covington, Ga.
PURPOSE: Georgia announced Quick Start would build and operate the new BioScience Training Center when Baxter International Inc. selected the state for its new plasma fractionation facility in 2012.
MILESTONE: Takeda traces its founding back to 1781. As of 2019, the company becomes part of Georgia's bio sector with its acquisition of the Covington facility.

Georgia won big in 2012 when Baxter picked Covington as the site for a biomanufacturing facility to produce therapeutic products derived from blood plasma. The biotech sector took notice. The Covington facility was so desirable, it's changed hands three times in the past four years. In January it was bought by Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceuticals, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.
From the beginning, Quick Start and our Georgia BioScience Training Center have continued to provide innovative training support.

Takeda Takes the Lead
When Takeda Pharmaceuticals completed its $62 billion acquisition of Ireland-based Shire, it cemented its place as one of the world's largest biopharmaceutical companies. The Covington facility had already been producing GAMMAGARD LIQUID, and in February received FDA approval to sell albumin for blood volume replacement therapy.

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Manufacturing

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Success

in Georgia

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The Georgia Advanced Manufacturing Training Center is the latest Quick Start training facility in the state and will help boost manufacturing in the coastal region. The 50,000-square-foot center will provide local manufacturers with customized workforce training. The center is equipped for a wide-range of advanced manufacturing and smart factory training, including mechatronics, control systems, automation and robotics, sensors, and networked wireless systems. It also includes computer labs and additional exible training space. The center will be run by Quick Start, a division of the Technical College System of Georgia and the state's internationally acclaimed program providing customized training free-of-charge to quali ed new, expanding and existing businesses.

Georgia Advanced Manufacturing Training Center
YEAR OPENED: 2019
LOCATION: Savannah, Ga.
PURPOSE: The 50,000-square-foot center will give regional manufacturers the support, equipment and space they need with training.
MILESTONE: The state-of-the-art training facility highlights smart factory and Industry 4.0 technologies.

FY2018 Annual Report

Operating Results for

As the reigning #1 workforce development program in the nation, Georgia Quick Start, part of the Technical College System of Georgia, is Georgia's

FY2018

primary discretionary incentive for job creation and

retention. Since its origin 51 years ago, Quick Start has

trained 1,290,002 Georgians through 7,046 projects, and

it has continued to build a reputation of successful

partnerships and thriving businesses in FY2018.

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95%95% of Quick Start FY1028 projects supported Georgia's advanced manufacturing operations -- the foundation of our economy.

4,790 jobs were created with

Quick Start's help in FY2018.

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Investments From Around the Globe
Quick Start's free, customized workforce training attracts new

58% New 42%
Existing

Quick Start delivered 79 customized workforce training programs to companies creating or retaining jobs in Georgia.

business and investment from

all over the globe. In FY2018,

Quick Start delivered 41% of its projects to companies of international origin. These companies came from 11 different countries

62% of projects were located outside Metro Atlanta, representing
69% of FY2018 trainees.

38% 62% Metro Atlanta Projects Projects Were Outside Metro Atlanta

11 countries in 32 projects.

Australia

Belgium

Canada

France Germany

Israel

Italy

32 projects Japan South Korea Sweden United Kingdom

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