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WEEKEND OUTLOOK Friday May 17 Page Business Provincial Technical Personnel Program is lauded In a speech to Kitchener area business people local en William Cline said this about Ontarios Technical Personnel Program Its sun pie easy to apply to there is every little red tape and its even highly intelligent I cant believe its government For many companies becom nationally and internationally competitive means they have to enhance their technical and scientific experience and lm prove their abilities to apply new technology The Ontano Ministry of In dustry Trade and Technology MITT through its Technical Personnel Program is support to small and medium ed businesses for just this pur pose The Ministry is providing a wage contribution to manufactur and service companies ex eluding retail enabling them to hire technical or scientific per sonnel These companies can use this needed expertise to help develop and produce new pro ducts and services to launch themselves into international markets Under TPP the Ministry con tributes 50 per cent of the new technical employee s salary maximum annually for the first year and per cent the following year Each firm is eligibile for two personnel sub sidies under the TPP After 18 months of operation over 300 companies have had their applications approved and the TPP has provided an average wage contribution of about This funding enabled them to hire professionals such as mechanical electrical and civil engineers as well as chemists physicists and systems experts from computer related fields And what a difference this talent has made From its inception the pro gram has received rave reviews from its participants MSD AERO SUPPORT Corporation specializing in the design and construction of engine test facilities attended a recent TPP promotional breakfast m Ottawa T E Miller their Senior Vice- President commented on how easy it was to apply to the pro gram and how quickly approval was received The paperwork and red tape that many people associate with government is not the case here The form easy to fill out and the people from the Ministry are right there to answer any questions It took on nine days for my application to be approved and that was the Christmas holidays said Miller The Ministry is committed to helping small and medium size Ontano companies become more competitive Regional MITT Field Offices in partnership with the National Research Council market the program make a technical assessment process the applications and are as com and resultsonented as the businesses they serve For exam pie dunng a luncheon meeting in Kitchener Larry Zepf CEO of Zepf Technologies explained how nice it was to see two government agencies work together so efficiently Our first application was approved in a few weeks our second days William Cline Kitchener area manufacturer of quality dress and sport shirts is certainly a strong supporter of the His company recognized a need to improve its competitiveness against lower wage offshore pro ducers With the help of a TPP wage contribution they were able to hire an industrial engineer who immediately implemented ad vanced timesaving manufactur techniques The was a recommenda tion of the Premiers Council report Competing in the New Global Economy It called for the establishment of a technical personnel assistance program to assist small and medium size companies to hire engineering or scientific personnel Funding for this program was set at million over five years Ad ministration is carried out through Small Business a branch of The program provides up to per employee over three years to eligible firms with 10200 employees on a consolidated basis Improved productivity reduc ed costs the adoption of new technologies and enhanced per formance in world markets are just some of the programs results For example Escalator Han drail Company Inc an Oshawa based manufacturer of rubber handrails sells its products worldwide The firm was in m expanding its export market to the Far East and Japan However quality dards for their products in Japan were found to be far more str than in North America TPP wage subsidies enabled them to hire a chemical technologist and a mechanical engineenng technologist They developed an improved coloured hypalon compound and a more effective process which allowed them to compete equally in the demanding Japanese market The Ministry contribution has also stimulated investment com from the private sector averaging in participant firms along with research and development expenditures of The program has generated positive feedback from partners as well as clients said Bill Lampert coordinator of the TPP It has been a catalyst for the of new projects in numerous Ontario firms thereby to their improved growth and success added To be eligible companies must be at least two years old Each business under consideration must have a well defined engineering or scientific project to develop It must also export goods or services or have 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