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By Staff -- Industrial Distribution, 5/1/2000

Caterpillar honors service technicians

Behind every great engine there must be a great service technician. To drive home that message, Caterpillar Engine Products Division recently held its TEC Masters competition.

Nearly 1,000 service technicians from North American Caterpillar dealers participated in the competition, which included three educational modules: self-study fundamentals of engines, self-study engine applications, and a live, timed electronic engine troubleshooting exercise.

"Top Gun" award winners in each of four categories were: industrial diesel, Joe Werner of Toromont, Stoney Creek, Ontario; industrial gas, Jeff Vogts of Foley Equipment Co., Dodge City, Kans.; EPG diesel, Mike Zeisler of Holt Company of Ohio, Sharonville, Ohio; and EPG gas, Gordon Pedersen of Finning, Calgary, Alberta.

Cooper Industries awards hospital grant

Cooper Industries, Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, awarded a three-year grant of $45,000 to the Mexican Federation of Private Health and Community Development Associations, also known as FEMAP. The grant will be used to enable the Hospital de la Familia, one of FEMAP's program centers, to expand and equip its neonatal wing, doubling its patient capacity. The hospital, located in Juarez, Mexico, provides care at greatly reduced cost and free of charge to those who are unable to pay.