Picote opens trenchless training center in Porvoo, Finland
Picote Solutions Oy announced the opening of a hands-on trenchless training center for international customers in the wastewater and water rehabilitation industries. Picote has finalized upgrading the training facilities and hiring full-time employees with extensive in-house lining experience. The Porvoo training center is conveniently located close to Picote CIPP contracting services and Picote manufacturing facilities in Porvoo, Finland, around 45 minutes from Helsinki. The Picote Training Center offers a wide variety of training, including drain cleaning for plumbers and trenchless contractors, cutting/reinstatement, failed liner and concrete removal, connection collar installation, and specialty classes focusing on CIPP lining inside buildings.

$60,000 raised for Joseph Groh Foundation at Service World Expo
Service World Expo, held recently in Tampa, Florida, raised $60,000 for the Joseph Groh Foundation. At the show, Ken Goodrich, CEO of Goettl Home Services, set a challenge. If attendees donated $50,000 to the foundation, he would personally match it. The Joseph Groh Foundation is a 501c3 charity and provides grants exclusively to individuals in the contracting and construction trades who are living with a life-altering disability. The grants fund accessible bathroom remodels, ramps, accessible wheelchair vans, vehicle retrofits, assistive and rehabilitative technology, and more.