Georgia Traditional Industries Program

TIP is managed and directed by leaders from Georgia’s traditional industries. Each of the three industries formed an advisory board to set TIP’s strategic direction. The three boards have their own identities within their respecitve industry sectors:

Industry leadership is crucial to TIP’s success:

• TIP’s industry groups meet regularly to discuss and set priorities for critical competitiveness needs that impact Georgia’s traditional industries. All TIP research work aims to solve widespread problems threatening the industries’ viability. TIP research is helping improve the industries’ manufacturing processes and automation, conservation of natural resources, environmental compliance, product safety, and product quality.
• Industry advisors select and manage every project funded by TIP, ensuring that state and industry dollars are invested wisely. Once each year, TIP requests project proposals from faculty and researchers at the University System of Georgia. TIP’s industry advisors review as many as 100 proposals to select approximately 40 projects for funding each year.
• Georgia companies participate in every research project funded by TIP – via project leadership and co-funding of all research work. In many cases, research-and-development work is conducted at industry sites across the state.

To view a list of TIP’s industry members, click on one of the names below:

TIP³ – Traditional Industries Program for the Pulp and Paper Industry

FoodPAC – Food Processing Advisory Council

CCACTI – Consortium on Competitiveness for the Apparel, Carpet and Textile Industries