all right well good afternoon everybody welcome uh to uh takeuchi uh to our uh new training center so
before we cut the ribbon today i wanna ask uh pastor jeff williams if you come up from the
south side church get the new location and then we'll get started father god we thank you for this
days today that you have made we're to rejoice and be glad and father we thank you today for
the marvel of creation and the power of ingenuity that you give people to to not just
build buildings and erect structures but also to create machinery that can be used to better
this world and we know that taguchi does that and we just pray for the leadership of this business
we pray for the direction that you would give jeff and his team this organization and specifically
this building as they work hard to provide instruction not just here but literally the places
worldwide so today father may you bless this place now you watch over now you watch over the people
that come on this property and may your peace rest upon this place in jesus name amen
so uh as many of you know this is uh completes the last stage of building for us this is the second
building that we've erected in the last two years we had 120 000 square foot expansion
uh on the other property and then this year we uh purchased the almost 10 acres here which now
puts our campus at about 44 acres and this uh 37 000 square foot building puts us at about a half
a million square feet under roof so now we're uh we're built out for the 44 acres um you know
i'm thankful for the uh the leadership in takeuchi from the shareholders uh to mr takeuchi and family
for allowing us this represents a little over nine million dollars that we've invested in growth
in jackson county in the last two years to help with the infrastructure for us on one
side but then to help further what we do here and the instruction for our dealers
and the folks that help support our equipment not only in the u.s but worldwide so it is a
great day for us to be able to officially open the training center and to start that training
uh here locally and then bring some worldwide folks in here hopefully when coping gets down
a little bit so we can go from there so um we'll continue on with mr crow you want to come on up
oh yeah thank you for the invitation we're we're always uh very happy to see uh
industrial commercial growth here and uh i just instructed our development people that
you got some other competitors you got to keep up with we're going to help you we are
certainly happy to to join in this today uh i'm sure that a lot of you that's in this kind of
business uh you will see a lot of energy equipment all around the county it is it's a very popular
piece of equipment it's very easy to use it's very difficult
so whenever you get ready to buy one or redwood uh
keith is actually our uh national product and
training manager so this is sort of his new home and uh
so and then james is the guy that built it so
with different construction so all right so tammy tell me what you're gonna do i'm gonna
take pictures that you cut you ready yep all right we open this up as a new training center
all right so if you want to join us you're all welcome inside um
anybody that's got to take your t-shirt can answer any questions if you want but uh
we'll sort of gather in there on the other side we'll walk around for a tour
if you want to do that show you what the new center looks like on the inside so come on