Events & Experiences

Discover new products, explore the latest trends, enhance your education, and create new connections—KBIS is the place to be for all things K&B. Join the industry in Las Vegas, February 27-29, 2024, for the leading and largest kitchen and bath event in North America.

Events & Experiences

The Water & Wastewater Equipment, Treatment & Transport Show is the largest, most immersive showcase of the latest innovations within the wastewater industry. Stop by the Cherne/Oatey booth to see our latest products, including plumbing and waterworks test plugs.

Events & Experiences

The National Building Museum in Washington, DC, invites people of all ages to The Big Build, a free hands-on festival exploring a wide variety of unique, interactive activities with roofers, plumbers, home remodelers, construction workers, carpenters, designers, and artisans. Oatey will provides a hands-on tubular building activity for children.

Events & Experiences

Build My Future is a one-day construction career event for high school students in Northwest Ohio and the surrounding areas. Interactive learning labs from businesses in the skilled trades and building industry will provide students with hands-on opportunities to experience what their future career could look like. Student activities include hands-on learning labs, equipment operation and educational displays.

Events & Experiences

Oatey Co. is proud to be a sponsor and participant in PHCC Connect 2023, the premier national conference for plumbing, heating, and cooling professionals. As a Cleveland-based company, Oatey will be a part of a showcase of Cleveland hometown brands and will offer tours of its manufacturing facility and Oatey University.

Oatey University

Oatey University is a training center dedicated to education, research and hands-on practice in support of the trades. 

Our 20,000-square-foot facility, located in the heart of Cleveland, Ohio, was developed by our expert team of plumbing specialists for robust in-person and remote learning. We offer full-size mockups of various jobsite settings, including a hotel bathroom and a residential rough-in plumbing system, where individuals can perform installations and earn continuing education credits/certifications. 

Bobby Drescher

Bobby Drescher resides in Newnan, GeorgiaPlumbing goes way back in his family starting with his great grandfather in the early 1900s. He is a 4th generation licensed master plumber and has been in the trade since 2005 working alongside his brother and dad. Family is a big part of who he is and it’s also what keeps him grounded. He has a loving wife, and two beautiful boys who he hopes to pass down his skills to when they are old enough.