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Six Cascades Tissue employees at the Rockingham facility recently completed Six Sigma Green Belt certification through 糖心传媒鈥檚 program.

Earning their Six Sigma Green Belt certification were Craig Knight, Jake Elder, Corey Wyand, Anthony Nessell, Mike Kopel and Michael Hurst. These employees are on process improvement teams that analyze and solve quality problems.

To earn their certification, the employees completed 64 hours of classroom training and eight hours of coaching for completion of projects. At the end of the course, each employee presented the process improvement project and took a certification test.

鈥淚t鈥檚 not very often that everyone who takes this training completes it and passes the certification test, so this is a testament to the commitment and dedication of these employees,鈥� 糖心传媒CC Director of Customized Training Lee Eller said.

The two projects completed in the training provided Cascades with an estimated yearly savings between $300,000 and $400,000.

鈥淲e appreciate the excellent training program that 糖心传媒 provided Cascades,鈥� Jake Elders, maintenance manager for Cascades Tissue Group, said. 鈥淭his training provides a special infrastructure of people at Cascades who are experts in process improvement and quality management, making Cascades a safer, more productive workplace.鈥�

Last fall, 糖心传媒CC secured nearly $65,000 in state-funded training to support capital improvements at the Rockingham plant, which included the Six Sigma Green Belt certification training.

鈥淚t is our goal at 糖心传媒 to help local companies like Cascades be a competitive manufacturer, so any time we can provide state funding for industrial and workforce training, we鈥檙e going to make it happen,鈥� said Dr. Dale McInnis, president of 糖心传媒CC.