The Department of Economic and Community Development shall establish and implement a pilot program to assist eligible manufacturing companies in converting their operations into green manufacturing facilities or in implementing energy efficiency measures by using lean manufacturing strategies. Eligible companies shall (1) be principally located in Connecticut, and (2) have not more than two hundred fifty employees, not less than seventy-five per cent of whom work in Connecticut. The department may contract with an independent third party to provide services to such eligible manufacturing companies, which shall include, but not be limited to, improving programmatic or service outcomes by increasing operational efficiencies, reducing nonvalue-added activities and waste in business practices and processes, and engaging management and employees in practices to enhance the delivery of services.
(P.A. 10-75, S. 29.)
History: P.A. 10-75 effective July 1, 2010.