McKinney, Texas — Caterpillar Inc. will invest up to $5 million in Texas as part of a new five-year, $100 million national workforce initiative, Governor Greg Abbott announced at the company's advanced engine manufacturing plant in Seguin.
The funding will go toward reducing barriers to training, building a skills framework for advanced manufacturing and industry technician roles, and strengthening pathways that connect students and workers to high-demand careers, the governor's office said. The company selected Texas for the initiative, citing the state's infrastructure, institutions such as Texas State Technical College, and a manufacturing sector it described as a national model.
"Texas is well known for having high-skilled job training programs," Abbott said. "Caterpillar is expanding that through this new program that is helping Texas build a better future for every Texan."
McKinney, in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro, sits about 200 miles northeast of Caterpillar's Seguin engine plant. Advanced-manufacturing employers across the Metroplex and Texas State Technical College campuses feed into the same workforce training pipeline the grant is meant to expand.
