Series takes a sneak peek inside local manufacturing facilities

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To coincide with Manufacturing Day, MRC partnered with PBS-39 to create an online video series, “Inside Manufacturing,” to debut Oct. 7.

The series looks to open the doors on what advanced manufacturing companies look like on the inside and includes 12 manufacturers in one-minute clips, said Jack Pfunder, president and CEO of MRC, which is based in Hanover Township, Lehigh County.

“There are 12 different videos and we’ll add more each year,” Pfunder said. “The key is to show what manufacturing looks like and what a job looks like at a manufacturing facility … how they are not what they picture in their minds when they think of Bethlehem Steel and places like that.”

The company-approved videos will be promoted to career and technical schools and community colleges to boost the marketing of their technology programs and enhance classroom training. Manufacturers featured in the videos are Nestle Waters, Crayola, Just Born, Air Products & Chemicals, Lutron, Ocean Spray, Follett, Martin Guitar, B. Braun, Vidmar, Bosch Rexroth and Smooth-On.

Each video was edited and created using the “What’s So Cool About Manufacturing?” student video contest footage filmed by eighth-grade students in the Greater Lehigh Valley. Over four years, students researched companies to discover what careers in this industry look like.