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Central Community College Plastics Programs and Activities

Craig Potthast, a Plastics Trainer and Coordinator at Central Community College, with a student in the plastics lab. The National Center for Next Generation Manufacturing is proud to highlight our current partner, Central Community College in Nebraska, and its plastics injection molding program. Program Director Karl Anderson and his team have been participating in numerous outreach opportunities to showcase their upcoming programming as follows: The "Fundamentals of Systema

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