New Way Air Bearings welcomes middle-schoolers for What's So Cool About Manufacturing? program

Nick Hackett, president of New Way Air Bearings, shows an eighth-grade student from Delaware County Christian School how one of the company’s machines uses Porous Media Technology™ to create high-precision products.

New Way® Air Bearings, a manufacturer of modular air bearing products in Aston, Pa., recently hosted local middle school students for the What's So Cool About Manufacturing? program for the second consecutive year.

The program, started in 2013 by the Manufacturers Resource Center in Allentown, Pa., pairs local middle schools with manufacturing companies to give students a firsthand look at the face of today's high-tech manufacturing industry. Students spend a few days at their assigned company, then create a video showcasing what they experienced and learned.

A group of about a dozen students from Delaware County Christian School toured the facility, interviewed President Nick Hackett and other employees, and learned how the company produces components for devices they use every day.