This workshop is sponsored by the Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center, an economic development organization dedicated to providing help and support to manufacturers (and organizations in their supply chain) in the Philadelphia region. We have three main program areas...education and training, consulting services, and regional initiatives, such as workforce development and government affairs. We serve the five counties immediately surrounding the city of Philadelphia: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Philadelphia and Montgomery.

The DVIRC is part of Pennsylvania's Industrial Resource Network, a program funded by the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED). The Centers are private, not-for-profit economic development corporations supported by the Commonwealth and managed by private industry. DCED has also been instrumental in helping the IRC Network compete for, and win, federal MEP awards, which are part of The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership program.