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HOBART INSTITUTE BREAKS GROUND FOR ADDITIONAL

WELDING TRAINING AREA

Driven by a demand for welding training and increasing With a goal to maintain the architectural and aesthetic integrity
enrollment, Hobart Institute is enlarging the northeast corner of the original design, construction began in early summer and
of the facility. The 6360-square-foot structure will house LW LV SODQQHG WKDW WKH ¿UVW FODVVHV ZLOO XWLOL]H WKH EXLOGLQJ LQ
between 50 and 60 additional arc welding booths, universally the late fall 2013. Ferguson Construction Company, Sidney,
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a state-of-the-art fume exhaust system.
The Institute employs 40 people in instructional,
The Hobart Institute was established in 1930 and has DGPLQLVWUDWLYH DQG RI¿FH VXSSRUW DUHDV ,W LV HVWLPDWHG WKDW
undergone several expansions throughout the years, most the economic impact of having the Hobart Institute in Troy
recently in 2005 with a major renovation. Revenue from skill amounts to between $6 million and $7 million annually as the
training has more than doubled in the past eight years. To students spend money for housing, meals, gasoline, recreation,
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space and an additional second shift was accomplished. months. It is often said that the true effect is two to three
times that much, as the students’ expenditures pay someone
Notably, HIWT has been able to accomplish all of this with HOVH¶V SD\UROO DQG WKLV WKHQ FRQWLQXHV RQ LQGH¿QLWHO\ EHIRUH WKH
only one tuition increase in the past ten years! The Hobart monies funnel out of the community.
Institute is currently operating at full capacity. This new
construction will enable the Institute to accommodate up to an
additional 60 students on each shift.

ABOUT HOBART INSTITUTE OF WELDING TECHNOLOGY

Hobart Institute of Welding Technology, dedicated to welding training and education excellence, is a 501 (c) 3
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State Board of Career Colleges and Schools Registration No. 70-12-0064HT
Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges No. 000403

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