Mobile Training Center on the Move
The Eriez Orange University mobile training and education center is touring Southern states this spring.
The Eriez Orange University mobile training and education center is touring North America in 2013 to provide hands-on learning. The center is housed on board a 38-foot Winnebago equipped with Eriez (Erie, Pennsylvania) products for food, pharmaceutical, chemical, processing, plastics, rubber, wood and light manufacturing applications. Equipment includes magnetic separators, vibratory conveyors and screeners, and metal detectors, among others. The training center will be traveling throughout Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas throughout March and April with more stops to follow.
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