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MEP Success Stories from North Carolina

Metal Manufacturer Shines After Receiving ISO Certification from NCMEP Partner

Reported Year
2022
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, that common goal was to achieve an ISO 9001 certification. Jonathan says, “We’ve wanted to be ISO certified since 2004 and some of our current customers were beginning to require their vendors to be ISO certified so we thought now was as good of a time as any. We wanted to be prepared for a post-COVID-19 world and

Dry Ice Manufacturer Gains Traction During the Pandemic With Help From NCMEP Partner

Reported Year
2021
Mike Coleman, owner and president of CMC Industrial Services, LLC and CMC Dry Ice Manufacturing LLC, said people told him it wasn’t a good idea to start another company in a pandemic. However, soon after CMC Dry Ice Manufacturing started production, they found out that the Covid-19 vaccine needed dry ice for shipments. CMC seized the opportunity

MEMS Manufacturer Taps NCMEP Partner for Internal Auditing Support

Reported Year
2021
No manufacturer is an island. In order to keep an organization running, they have to seek external assistance. Whether that is to build their supply chain, to pass inspections to ensure health and safety measures are being taken or in this case to renew an ISO certification. When it was time to renew their ISO 9001 certification, MEMSCAP knew to

NCMEP Partner Helps Foam Manufacturer Reach Quality Goals

Reported Year
2021
In 2017 Surry Community College provided customized training funds for NCFI to begin an ISO 9001:2015 implementation program with IES. Unfortunately, NCFI had to put the implementation on hold due to a lack of time and resources. In March 2020, Chip Holton, the president of NCFI, set an ambitious goal for the organization to finish their ISO 9001

NCMEP Partner IES Delivers Customized Training Course to Support Global Safety Program

Reported Year
2020
In 2018, VF’s supply chain leadership team, in partnership with VF’s health and safety and factory compliance team, began the process of aligning and transforming their health and safety program. The expert teams got to work and laid out the new VF Governed Safety Program that consisted of culture enhancement, standards, implementation tools, KPI’s

NCMEP PARTNER HELPS BRICK MANUFACTURER ACHIEVE SAFETY MILESTONES

Reported Year
2020
With a maniacal focus on innovation, continuous improvement, efficiency and sustainability, Brown wanted to take the company’s safety performance to the next level as well and focus on its safety culture. “We weren’t satisfied with being second best in any part of our business, so we started by recognizing that we, as leaders, have to change the

NCMEP Partner Helps Manufacturing Client Expand International Presence

Reported Year
2020
The company, with a value system dedicated to exceeding the needs and expectations of their customers, employees, suppliers and community, credits much of their success by providing exemplary products and services to the markets they serve. However, they wanted to grow. The company turned to Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC