The group will tour Concepts in Millwork to see their production facility and other former MiLL students at work.

Over the next decade it is expected that 3.4 million manufacturing jobs will have to be filled. The news of more job availability indicates the growth of manufacturing, but companies face a major problem. Despite the large projection in the number of jobs, 2 million are expected to remain empty due to the large skills gap. There will be 2.7 million baby boomers in manufacturing that will retire, but only 1.4 million jobs will then be filled.

Many changes have happened over the summer, but the MiLL’s primary goal in providing the top woods manufacturing and construction education to its students has remained the same.

The Peyton Advanced AutoWoods Cabinet 6 class installed cabinets into the main foyer at the MiLL training center.

It has been part of the MiLL's vision to be a training facility where companies could send their employees to be trained in one- to two-week courses.

The person sought will provide classroom instruction and lesson plans for woods manufacturing classes.

The MiLL welcomed industry partners, educators and students to see the rapid progress of the training center at a special open house event that demonstrated the industry’s support.