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Brian Piekarski

Brian Piekarski is case packing business segment manager at Brenton, a ProMach product brand. With over 24 years of experience on Brenton’s team, he has held positions including engineering manager and director of customer service.
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The Skills Gap in Packaging
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The Skills Gap: Is Packaging Half-Full or Half-Empty?

As suppliers design end-of-line equipment to meet today’s packaging needs, the industry holds great promise to close the skills gap.
Brian Piekarski
June 10, 2019
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“Skills gap is worsening in U.S. manufacturing industry” paints a rather dire view on the state of manufacturing for the glass half-empty people, whereas the headline: “Addressing the skills gap in manufacturing” indicates that a more proactive problem-solving approach is occurring for the glass half-full crowd.


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