SAN ANTONIO - While most sheet metal work is for the HVAC market, a story in the San Antonio Express-News showed that such training could also result in skills important in building parts for deer feeders, tractors, countertops, and jalapeno cookers.
Sharon LeBlanc works as an assistant foreman at B. G. Metals in San Antonio. She's been at the company since finishing high school eight years ago, where she had taken up welding. Burnell Gates, owner of B.G., suggested she study sheet metal as a way to advance within the company. So she went to the Associated Builders and Contractors school in San Antonio that turns apprentice sheet metal workers into journeymen.