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Welcome to Gates & Sons, Inc., your trusted leader in concrete forming since 1948.

We provide top-quality forming products for residential and commercial construction, including the innovative Horizontal Rod System, Cam-Lock System, Anchor-Lock Gang Systems, and Lok Fast Column Clamp. Elevator shaft forming, seat riser and step forms, and custom solutions are our specialties.

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Gates & Sons Training Programs

March 5, 2024
construction industry
construction training programs
Don Valdez
Gates & Sons
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MarketScale

 

How do vocational training and career development in the construction industry reflect workers’ changing needs and opportunities? In a conversation about Gates & Sons Training Programs, Don Valdez, the National Retail Sales Manager at Gates & Sons, discusses with company President Jim Huscroft the broad spectrum of training initiatives they’ve been implementing, especially highlighting their programs’ global reach and diversity in recent years.

“I’m really trying to stress that there’s more to career development than just going to college,” Valdez said. I’m trying to bring people into the trades, and I’m doing that by presenting our product and telling them how they can utilize that in their career development.”

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