Dualtech Training Center Foundation, Inc. was registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as a non-stock corporation on February 7, 1991, to engage primarily in providing quality training, technical skills and proper work attitudes to transform trainees into skilled workers. It started in Manila in 1982 as a social development project to alleviate the widespread poverty in the country through vocational education and training programs by adapting the German Dual Training System to local conditions. In 1991, a similar project was initiated in Canlubang, Laguna. Its main office is located at Don Ramon A. Yulo Campus, Carmelray Industrial Park I, Canlubang, Calamba City, Laguna. The foundation has 29 regular staff, 35 part-time staff and 3 members of the Board of Trustees.
Its purposes, among others, are “to traine skilled, productive, enlightened and morally upright young people, imbued with good work attitudes, who serve the common good, the needs of industries and communities; to promotes family values, lives the moral virtues and work ethics, civic responsibility and patriotism; to adhere to the total formation and education of the scholar in close cooperation with stakeholders including parents, partner-companies, mentors, alumni and benefactors; and to assist all graduates for employment”. The Foundation offers Electro-mechanics Technology (Maintenance Skills Training), a technical-vocational course that prepares young scholars to be able to repair and maintain various industrial equipment and facilities. It combines electrical, mechanical and electronic technologies for a multi-skilled worker. The course aims to train scholars to be capable of working as industrial workers in a manufacturing environment. The course consists of two (2) phases in accordance with the Republic Act No. 7686 of the Dual Training System Act of 1994.
