Donation of $12,000 made by the Covington Ice
Cream Plant toward the High School Dual Enrollment Program to
advance manufacturing skills in Tipton and Dyer counties
The Unilever plant in Covington, Tenn. has donated $12,000 to
Dyersburg State Community College (DSCC) to support its High School
Dual Enrollment Advanced Integrated Industrial Technology (AIIT)
program. The program helps eligible high school juniors and seniors
to earn college credit before they graduate and creates awareness
of career opportunities within the manufacturing industry.
Front row, L to R: Bernadette Fuller,
Human Resources Manager, Unilever Covington Ice Cream Plant, Dr.
Bowyer, President of DSCC, and Ja'Leel Tate, DSCC Dual Enrollment
Student from Covington High School. Back row, L to R: Charlton
Gaines, Corey Dowell, Akeen Taylor, DSCC Dual Enrollment Students
from Covington High School, Larry D. Gibson, Manufacturing
Director, Unilever Covington Ice Cream Plant, Jamie Frakes, Dean of
the DSCC Jimmy Naifeh Center and Phil Newman, DSCC Advanced
Integrated Industrial Technology Instructor. (Photo: Business
Wire)
Currently, 29 dual enrollment students from Brighton and
Covington High Schools are taking courses at DSCC’s Jimmy Naifeh
Center in Tipton County in order to earn the Certified Production
Technician (CPT) certification, which is also included within the
new Associate’s degree in AIIT.
Courses include training in workplace safety, manufacturing
processes and production, quality control and statistical process
control, and predictive preventative maintenance and lubrication.
These courses are designed to provide students with the knowledge
and skills needed to prepare them for success in an advanced,
high-performance manufacturing environment where they can secure
production positions after graduating from high school.
Last year, Unilever announced the expansion of its Covington,
Tenn. Facility, which produces ice cream and frozen novelty items
for brands such as Breyers, Fruttare, Good Humor, Klondike and
Popsicle. Plans include facility and site improvements for an
11,000-square-foot engine room expansion and a 90,000-square-foot
parking lot expansion, resulting in an investment of $108.7 million
and the addition of 428 new full-time positions over a four-year
period. Upon completion of the project, the company expects to have
a workforce of nearly 1,000 employees in Covington.
“Unilever is committed to improving the lives of our employees
and people in the communities where we live and serve, and we are
proud to support Dyersburg State Community College,” said Larry D.
Gibson, Manufacturing Director, Unilever Covington Ice Cream Plant.
“We have made a significant investment to expand our operations in
Covington, and in order to continue our growth we are going to need
a talented employee base.”
“There is enormous potential for careers in manufacturing today.
By partnering with Dyersburg State we are giving students a chance
to achieve the necessary skills to meet the requirements of the
manufacturing industry, as well as giving back to our local
communities of Tipton and Dyer counties,” added Bernadette Fuller,
Human Resources Manager of Unilever Covington Ice Cream Plant.
“Dyersburg State Community College is delighted to have Unilever
as a partner in improving the pipeline of potential employees for
an advanced, high-performing manufacturing environment,” stated Dr.
Karen Bowyer, President of DSCC. “The new AIIT Associate of Applied
Science Degree program that contains four stackable certificates
(Certified Production Technician, Mechatronics Industrial
Electricity, Mechatronics Programmable Logic Controller,
Mechatronics Mechanical Components) has been developed to educate a
world class workforce for manufacturers in this region. Dual
enrollment high school students and their parents are excited about
this opportunity to prepare for a bright future in advanced
manufacturing.”
For more information, visit: www.dscc.edu
About Unilever:
Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home
and Personal Care products with sales in more than 190 countries.
Working to create a better future every day, we help people feel
good, look good and get more out of life. In the United States, the
portfolio includes brand icons such as: Axe, Ben & Jerry’s,
Bertolli, Breyers, Caress, Clear Scalp & Hair Therapy, Consort
For Men, Country Crock, Degree, Dove personal care products,
Fruttare, Good Humor, Hellmann’s, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!,
Just for Me!, Klondike, Knorr, Lever 2000, Lipton, Magnum, Motions,
Nexxus, Noxzema, Pond’s, Popsicle, Promise, Q-tips, Ragú, Simple,
Slim-Fast, St. Ives, Suave, TIGI, TONI&GUY Hair Meet Wardrobe,
TRESemmé and Vaseline. All of the preceding brand names are
trademarks or registered trademarks of the Unilever Group of
Companies.
Our ambition is to double the size of our business, while
reducing our overall environmental footprint (including sourcing,
consumer use and disposal) and increasing our positive social
impact. We are committed to helping more than a billion people take
action to improve their health and well-being, sourcing all our
agricultural raw materials sustainably by 2020, and decoupling our
growth from our environmental impact. Supporting our three big
goals, we have defined seven pillars, underpinned by targets
encompassing social, environmental and economic areas. See more on
the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan at
http://www.unileverusa.com/sustainable-living/.
Unilever employs approximately 10,000 people in the United
States – generating nearly $9 billion in sales in 2013. For more
information, visit www.unileverusa.com.
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Unilever Media RelationsJaime Stein,
201-894-7760MediaRelations.USA@unilever.com
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