Van Alstyne, 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."
Van Alstyne, in the Sherman-Denison metro area near the Oklahoma border, sits roughly 240 miles northeast of Caterpillar's Seguin engine plant, though North Texas manufacturing employers and Texas State Technical College campuses participate in the same statewide workforce pipeline the initiative is designed to strengthen.
