KALAMAZOO – On June 28, Governor Granholm announced a $269,999 Economic Development Job Training (EDJT) grant to improve the skills of 900 workers at Parker Hannifin Corporation in Otsego and Richland. The Michigan Economic Development Corporation grant will provide technical process and quality training for 800 current and 100 new employees.
Under terms of the award, the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research will be the grant administrator with Parker Hannifin providing a minimum 25 percent funding match.
Parker Hannifin expanded its Richland Township facility in 2000, choosing the local plant expansion over a move to Wake Forest, North Carolina. A local tax abatement and Michigan Economic Growth Authority tax credit helped to convince the company that Michigan was the ideal place for continued growth and investment. The expansion included 50,000 square feet of additional manufacturing space and a 30,000 square-foot administration building on the same site.
With annual sales approaching $8 billion, Parker Hannifin is the world?s leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision-engineered solutions for a wide variety of commercial, mobile, industrial and aerospace markets. It employs more than 48,000 people in 46 countries around the world.
