The Hillsborough County Manufacturing Alliance was formed by the
county several years ago to support local manufacturers with particular focus
on their workforce needs. Funding from
the Alliance has been used to support infrastructure and equipment at local
educational institutions (high schools and post-secondary), subsidized industry
training, and promotion of Manufacturing Career pathways. Periodically, the
Alliance meets visits local manufacturers.
This month the group visited the headquarters of Amalie Oil located on
the deep-water port in Tampa. It’s the largest privately
held independent blender of motor oils and industrial lubricants in North
America. The state-of-the-art production facility has some of the fastest and
most sophisticated bottle blow-molding, blending, and packaging equipment
available. Since its beginnings in 1903
in Pennsylvania, Amalie has been focused on innovation, quality and customer
service.
Amalie has expanded and now has
facilities at the ports in Charleston, S.C. and in Los Angeles, CA. Together
the facilities produce over 3000 distinct products that include a full line of
automotive, fleet, industrial, and specialty lubricants and ship them to every
state in the U.S. as well as over 100 countries. Products support all levels of consumers from
individual consumers to large industrial fleets and they are shipped in every
size container imaginable from 8 oz bottle, 5-gallon buckets, to bulk
containers and they travel the world by truck, rail and/or ship. Since 1903, Amalie is truly...Better than they
have to be!
Amalie employees nearly 500 people,
with the majority of them working directly in the production, processing and
packaging of their oil and lubricant products.
They need highly-trained technicians to install, operate, maintain and
repair their equipment. With automation and system integration being added to
their facility on a regular basis, they need technicians with programming, communication
and hands on electrical and mechanical skills.
The educational partners of the Hillsborough Manufacturing Alliance are
committed to helping Amalie develop their local talent pipeline.
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