Nashua, Hudson Companies Get Job Training Grants

Continuing her efforts to help New Hampshire workers develop the skills and innovative thinking needed for good jobs in the 21st century economy, Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-Exeter, announced last week that three New Hampshire companies have been awarded job training grants to help them train 56 workers in new skills.

The job training grants total $76,345 and the companies matched the training funds to bring the total amount for training workers to $152,690.

“I am proud to announce the latest round of critical job training grants to help workers develop skills for good jobs at New Hampshire’s growing businesses,” said Hassan. “New Hampshire’s Job Training Fund is an important resource that has helped thousands of workers develop the skills and innovative thinking needed for success in the 21st century economy. We must continue to focus on strengthening our workforce pipeline through job training and higher education in order to help expand middle class opportunity, support innovative businesses and keep New Hampshire’s economy moving in the right direction.”

• Axenics Inc. of Nashua received a grant of up to $3,300 for training from Manchester Community College for six employees in manufacturing, tube formation and welding for fabrication.

• Sig Sauer Inc. of Newington received a grant of $69,600 for Great Bay Community College to train 24 employees in computer numerical control production technology.

• C&M Machine Products of Hudson received a Job Training Fund grant of $3,445 for 26 employees to receive Microsoft skills training from Nashua Community College.

The Job Training Fund has awarded $8,224,589.64 in grants since October 2007, with employers contributing $10,911,416.81 for a total of $19,136,006.45 in new training for 24,236 New Hampshire workers.

Companies interested in applying to the Job Training Fund should visit the fund’s web site at nhjobtrainingfund.org.