How to fill manufacturing’s skills gap amidst the pandemic

July 30, 2020

After the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly ground the world to a halt in the first few months of 2020, it created both new challenges for the manufacturing industry and exacerbated those that had existed for some time. According to an article by McKinsey & Company analysts,1 the future we expected by 2020 hasn’t quite come to pass. Rather than a significant shift towards more automation and a smaller workforce, the opposite is true, due in part to the pandemic.

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Ducoco

Ducoco is a Brazilian company that has been operating in the food and beverage sectors since 1979 and has Ducoco and Menina brands in its portfolio. Together, they bring together over a hundred products, all derived from coconut - the company's DNA - like coconut water, coconut milk, grated coconut, isotonic and coconut oil.

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whitePaper | March 2, 2020

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Ducoco

Ducoco is a Brazilian company that has been operating in the food and beverage sectors since 1979 and has Ducoco and Menina brands in its portfolio. Together, they bring together over a hundred products, all derived from coconut - the company's DNA - like coconut water, coconut milk, grated coconut, isotonic and coconut oil.

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