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SPOTLIGHTS

CELEBRATING OVER 50 YEARS
OF TEACHING EXCELLENCE

From the very beginning, we’ve
known that our best sales tools
are our machines. Once a
customer gets into the cab and
experiences for themselves
the power and precision of our Landing page:
cat.com/en_GB/
machines, they’re hard to resist. support/cat-training/
learning-centers.html
A big part of that success has been down
to Caterpillar Demonstration & Learning
Centers (DLCs) who are now celebrating classrooms with on-site Cat simulators. In
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their 50th year. During which our highly addition, they’ve gained a cult following for
trained experts have educated thousands the quality of their homecooked meals.
of customers on everything from the
latest in equipment updates to choosing Even the recent pandemic couldn’t
the right technology for their business. stop them, with the centers quickly
And over the years, we’ve seen the moving to virtual training and events.
centers themselves evolve into high-tech Here’s to the next 50 years. ■

BUILDING HOPE

When the BBC found Hope Emmanuel Frank, a young teenager
from Uyo in Nigeria, building replicas of Cat machines from
broken toy parts and old laptop batteries and telling everyone
he was going to become one of the world’s greatest inventors
ever, even he couldn’t have imagined where it would lead.
Because Mantrac, the Cat dealer in the We’ll leave the final word to the
region, found out about Hope Emmanuel, spokesperson from Mantrac. “We encourage
they flew him and his mother to their head all young people to continue honing
offices in Oregun Lagos. After spending their talents, expanding their minds, and
some time with him, during which he toured pursuing their dreams. Because the next
their workshop and operated a Cat 32 for great mind in engineering could come
real, Mantrac’s management knew they were from the most unexpected place.” ■
dealing with an exceptional talent. So, they
are now sponsoring his tuition at the Topfaith
International Secondary School in Mkpatak,
Video:
youtube.com/ Nigeria, where he is excelling in his class.
watch?v=j3OiXHzzMkw&t=1s

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