About 250 customers joined Cooper Industries in Houston for the grand opening of its new technology and training facility in Houston last month. Cooper CEO Kirk Hachigian and his staff hosted the half-day event, which featured comprehensive tours of the new facility and an opportunity to discuss training needs with the company’s executives and representatives of each division. Attendees included end-users, distributors and EPC professionals from the electrical, oil and gas and petrochemical market segments. The Cooper Technology Center is a 35,000-square-foot facility featuring an auditorium, conference room, multiple training rooms and a full-scale mock refinery, wastewater treatment facility and electrical distribution grid, which includes over 250 of Cooper’s industrial offerings, installed as they would appear in an operational setting.