View
35
Download
1
Category
Tags:
Preview:
DESCRIPTION
INVESTING IN MANUFACTURING COMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP (IMCP) NORTHWEST GEORGIA REGION Key Technology and Supply Chain Analysis IMCP Summit October 30, 2014. Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute with The Northwest Georgia Regional Commission. Image: www.mmn.com. Image: Shaw Industries. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Citation preview
INVESTING IN MANUFACTURING
COMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP (IMCP)
NORTHWEST GEORGIA REGIONKey Technology and Supply Chain Analysis
IMCP SummitOctober 30, 2014
Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute withThe Northwest Georgia Regional Commission
Image: Kathy Lohr/NPRImage: Shaw IndustriesImage: www.mmn.com
Overview
◎ About Northwest Georgia
◎ KTS: What Is “Floor Covering”?
◎ History of the Floor Covering Industry in Dalton
◎ Innovation and the Future of Floor CoveringImage: FloorTek
◎ 863,217 pop. (15 counties)◎ 9.5% Latino (Whitfield County 32% Latino)◎ 75% high school graduation rate◎ 1,107 manufacturing firms, 60k manufacturing
workers (25% of regional employment)
WHITFIELD
Northwest Georgia: Fast Facts
Dalton, GA (industry locus)
◎ 32,801 employees (2012)
◎ 47% of the U.S. exports of carpets and other textile floor coverings originate in Georgia
◎ 80% of US carpet and rug market
◎ Multiple large and medium-sized players
13.6% of total employment in
Northwest Georgia (2012)
Floorcovering Industry Profile
◎ The NWGA region has an established advantage in floor covering
◎ Right ingredients for growth in manufacturing and the industry
◎ Stagnant clusters can be accelerated◎ Best practices RESULTS!
◎ Collaboration between university/technical colleges and industry
◎ Industry-specific degree programs◎ Co-location of equipment/R&D/entrepreneurs/growing
companies◎ State support
Advanced Manufacturing Strategy (Sept.2013 – Sept. 2014)
Key Findings for Implementation (September 2014 – Present)
IMCP Phase 1 Highlights
KTS: What is Floor Covering?
KTS: What is Floor Covering?
Year Event1791 First woven carpet mill in Philadelphia
Early 1900s Dalton’s Catherine Evans Whitener developed tufting for bedspreads
Early 1930s Cottage industries around Dalton for hand tufting for bedspreads
Late 1930s First mechanized tufting machine (chenille)
1941 99% bedspreads machine tufted
1940s-1970 Bedspread alley from Dalton to Cartersville
1950s Use of man-made fibersShift to carpetsJ&T Industries founded (a merger of UGA-GT graduates)
1963 Over $1 billion of carpet and rug products sold. Mohawk Carpet Mills moves to Georgia (acquired Aladdin, others)
1967-68 Shaw acquired Philadelphia Carpet Company, Star Finishing (sold to Berkshire Hathaway in 2001)
1970s Plain tufted carpet shifted to sculpted carpet
1978 Beaulieu founded (Belgium acquisition of bankrupt Barwick Carpets)
Source: Carpet and Rug Institute, selected company websites
History of the Floor Covering Cluster
Origins in Manual
Tufting…
History of the Floor Covering Cluster
Photo Courtesy of the New Georgia Encyclopedia
History of the Floor Covering Cluster
Mechanized Tufting Process of Yesterday…
Photos Courtesy of the New Georgia Encyclopedia and Shaw Industries
History of the Floor Covering Cluster
Modern Textile
Manufacturing
Photo Courtesy of NPR
History of the Floor Covering Cluster
Modern Textile Manufacturing
History of the Floor Covering ClusterIndustry
Diversification…
Modular Carpet TileLuxury Vinyl Tile
Laminate Ceramic
“When you are being asked to make the business case for sustainability - perhaps ask them to make the business case for being un-sustainable.”
- Ray Anderson, Founder and Chairman Interface Flooring
Innovation in the Industry
Floor Covering Cluster SWOT
◎ Strengthso Rapid response to new markets, products, and economic trendso Adequate access to capital, low debt, local contraction
◎ Weaknesseso Skilled labor shortageo Lack of research institution connectiono Some lack of state recognition/support (an “it will always be there” mentality)
◎ Opportunitieso Creation of an innovation-driven regional culture
(i.e., startups, entrepreneurs)o Up-training/re-training of ready workforce that “knows” the industry
◎ Threatso Competitiveness more than sharing among the major players; increased global
competitiono Consolidation rather than entrepreneurship o Lack of STEM education and recognition of manufacturing as a viable career choice
Ideas for the Future
Enhance the customer experience
(merge product and IT, sensors, apps, online
design/creativity)
New materials, new designs
Sustainability (process,
startups)
S-FLOR(IMCP)
IMCP Partners
IMCP Partners – Research + Education Partners
Northwest Georgia Workforce Investment
Board
IMCP Partners – Public Sector Partners
IMCP Partners – Industry Partners (Manufacturers + Suppliers)
IMCP Partners – Industry Associations + Other Partners
Thank You!
Questions?Leigh Hopkins, AICPProject Manager404-894-0933leigh.hopkins@innovate.gatech.edu
Northwest Georgia Advanced Manufacturing Strategy page:http://www.nwgrc.org/category/northwest-georgia-regional-manufacturing-strategy
/
Recommended