business backgrounder | education & workforce
“Composites represent the future.
The use of materials in multiple industry
applications provides opportunity at
all levels of the supply chain.”
— Ann Avary, director of the Center of Excellence for
Marine Manufacturing & Technology
good-paying jobs with as little as six months training. The
industry also offers opportunities for apprenticeships.”
Sharing information and resources with alliance
members — as well as with all of the state’s 34 community
and technical colleges — ensures that no program has to
“reinvent the wheel,” Bredeson said, and colleges can
instead direct resources toward providing high-quality
training for students.
In a thriving industry garnering global attention,
Composites Washington sets a high bar for training and
professional development, Avary said. “We’ve provided
a national model for other states to follow.”
Composites are high-impact, fiber-reinforced resins used in the aerospace,
shipbuilding, and construction industries.
AWB CompWise Workers’ Comp
Retrospective Rating Program
If you care about having a safe workplace and saving your company
money, this program is for you!
Enroll in the AWB CompWise Program and start receiving refunds
on your workers’ compensation premiums.
average more than 20 percent, with some firms
Group refunds ave
receiving refunds as high as 35 percent due to our merit-based
refund formula.
For your free, no-obligation summary, please call 866-666-8818
cutline
or visit www.awb.org/workers-compensation for more details
or to submit an online information request.
38 association of washington business