Southeast Tech and Thune Honor Late US Senator with $18 Million Manufacturing Building

Southeast Tech and Thune honor late US senator with $18 million manufacturing building

Majority leader says ‘I wouldn’t be where I am without Jim Abdnor’

New Southeast Tech manufacturing center will feed the Sioux Falls economy with highly trained workers

The Sioux Falls manufacturing sector is growing from food to steel to windmills. That means there is demand for the workers who can meet the needs of what is an increasingly technical world of automated production. On Friday, Southeast Technical College in northwest Sioux Falls hosted a crowd of dignitaries to mark the groundbreaking of the Jim Abdnor Center for Advanced Manufacturing. Sioux Falls Live Editor Patrick Lalley caught up with the sc…

Southeast Tech breaks ground on $18M manufacturing lab

South Dakota is betting on a sustained resurgence of America’s manufacturing sector with an $18 million trade laboratory in northwest Sioux Falls.The 53,000-square-foot complex going up on the campus of Southeast Technical College, dubbed the James Abdnor Center for Advanced Manufacturing, is expected to produce an estimated 130 more field-ready, trade-tested graduates each year.“The Abdnor Center will provide students with access to cutting-edg…