TPI is no stranger to international workers, and when a Chinese TPI plant needed to train its workers on how to build a new turbine blade, the Newton plant was happy to help.

“The reason why we bring these folks over here for a period of time, not just a day, or week but for several weeks is because it’s a hands-on business,” Mark Parriott,TPI Plant General Manager, said. “It’s a hands-on learning thing. If it was easy as sending somebody to a classroom it would be a whole lot easier to train them.”

A language barrier did not stop Newton TPI from training its fellow employees how to make the blade. The Chinese workers brought someone who understood English. His job was to not only translate, but train them as well. He was so successful that TPI asked him to come back for the second wave of Chinese workers.