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To advance Indiana's economic prosperity, health, and quality of life.

Purdue University’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) center delivers comprehensive solutions to help you strengthen your local and global competitiveness by:


  • assessing where your company stands today
  • providing technical and business solutions
  • helping you create successful partnerships
  • learning through seminars and training programs

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Frontline Green Worker

Frontline Green Worker

Advanced manufacturing credential for displaced workers seeking 21st century manufacturing jobs.


You could qualify for FREE training. Contact your local WorkOne and register to earn your Frontline Green Worker Certificate today!


For more information, visit www.greenworker.purdue.edu.

Smith Bros. Furniture

Green Enterprise Development

"With the help of Purdue’s Green Enterprise Development Program, we learned how to package our energy and waste costs into a single measurement tool. Now, when we develop a new chair or sofa, we examine how to utilize less material for making a new piece of furniture."

- Melissa Fey, Sustainability Facilitator, Smith Brothers Furniture

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Indianapolis Zoo

Indianapolis Zoo

"Purdue TAP has been a very good resource to help the Indianapolis Zoo reduce its energy consumption as we continue efforts to empower people, resources, and communities locally and globally to advance animal conservation."

- Mike Teague, Director of Facilities, The Indianapolis Zoo

Services Provided:

  • Energy Efficiency & Sustainability
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Alcoa

Technical Assistance Projects

Alcoa Inc. engineers at the Global Hard Alloy Extrusions facility in Lafayette, Ind., discovered that an H-13 tool steel component used to manufacture aluminum extrusions for the aerospace industry was cracking. A research team involving Purdue faculty and researchers used scanning electron microscopy and hardness measurements in their analysis to understand the cause of the failure preventing losses that could reach $50,000.

Services Provided:

  • Technical Assistance Projects (Faculty Assistance)
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Hoosier Spring

Hoosier Spring

"Thanks to this training partnership with Purdue, we have new tools and a renewed enthusiasm to grow our company and supply the best quality product on time and at a competitive price."

- Greg Lynch, Quality Assurance Manager, Hoosier Spring Co.

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Purdue University’s Technical Assistance Program is the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) center for the State of Indiana.