What is ExporTech™?
ExporTech is an innovative national export assistance program designed to accelerate export growth for small and mid-size manufacturers.
The program assists C-level leadership of SMMs to:
- Enter or expand in global markets
- Efficiently connect with a wide range of experts that help navigate the export sales process and provide information specific to each company’s needs
- Develop a written export growth plan, that is vetted by a panel of experts upon completion
Stone & Associates and its partner Clear Intent Strategy developed ExporTech’s program design and content on behalf of NIST/MEP (U.S. Dept of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology/ Manufacturing Extension Partnership).
The Stone & Associates team continues to serve as ExporTech national master facilitators and to lead program design and marketing efforts.
For information about the program, click on the links below to the NIST website or Contact us
Read what policy influencers are saying about ExporTech
With regard to trade, the United States needs to better support SME manufacturers’ export potential … the Obama administration should expand MEP’s ExporTech export assistance program…
—Stephen Ezell, “Revitalizing U.S. Manufacturing” (Issues in Science & Technology, Jan 1, 2012)
A successful export program in Wisconsin is helping the state market agricultural products to other countries.
—“ExporTech Boosting Ag Trade In Wisconsin”, Brownfield Ag News, June 6, 2016
For Wisconsin companies looking to sell their products in foreign markets, [Governor Scott] Walker touted ExporTech…
—“Gov. Walker, Briggs & Stratton CEO Teske tout Wisconsin exports, international trade”, Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership blog, May 17, 2016
[California is] piloting the use of ExporTech training for Trade Connect partners…
—National Governors Association Policy Academy Report, “Making Our Future: What States Are Doing to Encourage Growth in Manufacturing through Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Investment” (Jan 2013)
[Recommendations:] Move to rapidly deploy and pilot the local use of ExporTech, a proven ‘Export Acceleration System’
—Vermont Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, Final Report, Jan 2013
More ExporTech in the News at nist.gov/exportech/
ExporTech video resources
See brief video about ExporTech Maine, in the Maine International Trade Center’s May 2021 Global View Newsletter
