The Canadian Tooling Machining Association has suspended requests for funding support under the CTMA’s Advanced Software Machine Training Fund program.

According to CTMA executive director Les Payne, “we have received an overwhelming number of requests which indicates the obvious need for this kind of funding to support the machine, tool, die mould industry. We were pleasantly surprised to receive over 100 proposals from companies in the industry that were deemed eligible and will receive funding; however, the total of these applications far exceeds the level of funding that is currently available.”

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Payne notes that the program can be restarted when additional funds are available and that updates will be posted on the association’s website, www.ctma.com