Piping Industry Training Center provides welding training to meet demand

Recognizing a shortage of high-performing welders, a local state-of-the-art training center worked to help meet demand and train workers by providing free, 16-week welding courses for qualified applicants.

The welders took part in this training at the privately funded Piping Industry Training Center located in Northwood, Ohio. They received 40 hours per week welding training at no charge. This training is helping workers to provide for their families and contribute to our local economy.

Funding for the Piping Industry Training Center comes from union signatory contractors. This is not a tax-supported facility. However, the benefits of piping, plumbing, heating and air conditioning, refrigeration, ventilation, geothermal, welding, backflow, boilermaking, steamfitting, medical gas piping training are enjoyed by taxpayers.

All of us are touched by the local industries our contractors support, including food processing, oil and chemical refining, schools, universities and hospitals, nuclear power, electrical power, as well as retail, commercial and office space.

While many of our contractors conduct business throughout the country, our “home” territory includes the northwestern Ohio counties of Defiance, Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Lucas, Ottawa, Paulding, Putnam, Sandusky, Seneca, Williams and Wood.