In the past 115 years since Lincoln Electric company founder John C.Lincoln started selling his own electric motors, technological advances have meant that the manufacturing sector and the needs of consumers have changed enormously. Yet amongst all this change, there is one aspect of the manufacturing industry that has remained as vitally important today as it did in the 19th Century.
This factor is of course the workers. Not just any workers but the skilled, trained, talented employees who make such an enormous contribution to the UK economy. Without employees with the right skills, businesses would (and do) falter. David Kirkwood of Lincoln Electric says that as an employer, he knows firsthand how vitally important it…
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