The school has been here since 1930
Troy's Other Export
The Hobart Institute of Welding Technology — its founding in 1930, the range of programmes it runs, and its position as a national training resource at a moment when the American Welding Society's annual shortage figure has reached the tens of thousands.
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The Wire Still Ships from Troy
ITW Hobart Brothers' welding consumables operation — the wire-line production floor, the product range, and why a town that trains welders also makes the wire they train with.
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Anna Is Being Retooled
The roughly $700 million investment Honda is making at the Anna engine plant to build electric drive units — the scale of the conversion, the timeline, and what it means for the welding and fabrication supply chain twenty miles from Troy.
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The $4.4 Billion Bet at Jeffersonville
The Honda–LG Energy Solution battery plant commitment at Jeffersonville, Ohio — the scale of the investment, the cell chemistry it will produce, and the skilled-trades workforce it will need that the region is currently short of.
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Tens of Thousands, Every Year
The American Welding Society's annual shortage estimate — what the figure counts, why it keeps running ahead of training capacity, and why west-central Ohio is a sharper case study than the national average.
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F&P America and the Stamping Supply Chain
F&P America Manufacturing's Troy operation — what it stamps, how it fits into Honda's parts supply chain, and what the EV retooling at Anna means for a press shop that has supplied the engine plant for years.
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The whole registerThe water gets the first say
The flood-control system that makes the town possible: five dry dams, a raised levee, the 1913 event that set the design, and Arthur Morgan's district.
6 pieces Section 3The town and its square mile
The Public Square, the 1888 courthouse, Hobart Arena, the Overfield Tavern, WACO Aircraft, the Strawberry Festival as institution, and the fabric of the built town.
7 pieces Section 4The county and what sits in it
Miami County beyond the city limits: Piqua and the Johnston Farm, Tipp City's canal-era main street, the Miami and Erie Canal locks, the Stillwater River, and Dayton's record to the south.
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