LIFT Network Manufacturing Day Series Featuring NISCO Seals
About NISCO Seals: Founded in 1986 with the former Standard Products Company and Nishikawa Rubber Company (NRC); technology exchange agreements have existed between the two companies since 1970. Full-Service Supplier of Automotive OEM Dynamic Sealing Systems owned jointly by Nishikawa Rubber Company (60%) and Cooper Standard Automotive (40%). Nishikawa Rubber Company (NRC), is the only independent (non-keiretsu) dynamic sealing supplier with a customer base that includes all of the Japanese automotive companies, GM, Jaguar, Aston Martin, and Ferrari. NRC is headquartered in Hiroshima, Japan. Cooper Standard Automotive (CSA) is among the world’s largest automotive OEM suppliers of sealing and fluid. CSA is headquartered in Novi, Michigan. About Virtual Manufacturing Day 2020: The Labs for Industry Futures and Transformation (LIFT) Network is sponsoring the South Bend - Elkhart region's Virtual Manufacturing Day for 2020. Leadership across Elkhart, Marshall, and St. Joseph County are partnering with nine regional manufacturing firms to provide insights to career pathways, opportunities, and more within the region's manufacturing sector! Employers include Daman Products, Elkhart Plastics, General Stamping & Metalworks, Hoosier Racing Tire, ITAMCO, Lippert Components, MORryde, NISCO, and Robert Weed Corporation. For more information about the South Bend - Elkhart Regional Partnership's Career Exploration program, visit bit.ly/LIFTSBECareerExploration. About the LIFT Network: The LIFT Network is a regional collaboration among public-private leaders of the South Bend – Elkhart region intended to support the advancement of regional industries via the development and/or expansion of innovation based industry practices among regional firms and in the short-term increasing our region’s embrace of digital transformation across regional firms and workforce training. LIFT Network Virtual Manufacturing Day is a community collaboration among county-level intermediaries and K-12 districts to introduce middle and high school students to innovative manufacturing practices among firms and to spark their interest to begin to seek a career within the advanced manufacturing sector. Regional collaboration across the LIFT Network is managed by the South Bend – Elkhart Regional Partnership and is funded by a $42M grant by the Lilly Endowment.
About NISCO Seals: Founded in 1986 with the former Standard Products Company and Nishikawa Rubber Company (NRC); technology exchange agreements have existed between the two companies since 1970. Full-Service Supplier of Automotive OEM Dynamic Sealing Systems owned jointly by Nishikawa Rubber Company (60%) and Cooper Standard Automotive (40%). Nishikawa Rubber Company (NRC), is the only independent (non-keiretsu) dynamic sealing supplier with a customer base that includes all of the Japanese automotive companies, GM, Jaguar, Aston Martin, and Ferrari. NRC is headquartered in Hiroshima, Japan. Cooper Standard Automotive (CSA) is among the world’s largest automotive OEM suppliers of sealing and fluid. CSA is headquartered in Novi, Michigan. About Virtual Manufacturing Day 2020: The Labs for Industry Futures and Transformation (LIFT) Network is sponsoring the South Bend - Elkhart region's Virtual Manufacturing Day for 2020. Leadership across Elkhart, Marshall, and St. Joseph County are partnering with nine regional manufacturing firms to provide insights to career pathways, opportunities, and more within the region's manufacturing sector! Employers include Daman Products, Elkhart Plastics, General Stamping & Metalworks, Hoosier Racing Tire, ITAMCO, Lippert Components, MORryde, NISCO, and Robert Weed Corporation. For more information about the South Bend - Elkhart Regional Partnership's Career Exploration program, visit bit.ly/LIFTSBECareerExploration. About the LIFT Network: The LIFT Network is a regional collaboration among public-private leaders of the South Bend – Elkhart region intended to support the advancement of regional industries via the development and/or expansion of innovation based industry practices among regional firms and in the short-term increasing our region’s embrace of digital transformation across regional firms and workforce training. LIFT Network Virtual Manufacturing Day is a community collaboration among county-level intermediaries and K-12 districts to introduce middle and high school students to innovative manufacturing practices among firms and to spark their interest to begin to seek a career within the advanced manufacturing sector. Regional collaboration across the LIFT Network is managed by the South Bend – Elkhart Regional Partnership and is funded by a $42M grant by the Lilly Endowment.