The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture recently awarded 23 projects more than $2.45 million in Federal Specialty Crop Block Grants. Funding is through the federal Farm Bill and is awarded on a ...
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Pittsburgh-based Heinz announced Tuesday that it will team up with Pulpex to develop a sustainable, recyclable bottle made from wood pulp for its iconic ketchup brand. Using 100 percent sustainabl...
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Reading-based Penske Truck Leasing, a transportation services provider, and Shell Recharge Solutions North America, a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, recently announced a joint ini...
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Pennsylvania Sens. Bob Mensch (R-24), Pat Browne (R-16), and Rep. Craig Staats (R-145) announced Friday that Klover SEPA, Inc., was the winner of a $2 million state redevelopment grant. The compan...
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Leaders from Appalachian natural gas producers told U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) in a letter last week that butane could be an effective means of lowering gasoline prices. Representatives from Mar...
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Bringing broadband internet access to rural communities in northeastern Pennsylvania will bring with it opportunities, officials said at a broadband infrastructure event on Wednesday. Representati...
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Luke Bernstein will be the next president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry Board of Directors, the organization announced Tuesday. Bernstein was appointed after a five-...
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Massachusetts-based FirstLight Power, a clean power producer, developer, and energy storage company, recently purchased two hydroelectric facilities on the Allegheny River from H2O Power, an Ontario-b...
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Gov. Tom Wolf and his Democratic colleagues in the General Assembly have proposed a $1.7 billion spending plan for small businesses struggling from continually rising costs. Under the plan, uncommi...
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Pittsburgh-based PPG recently announced it will construct a $17 million aerospace application support center (ASC) in Toulouse, France, near the Toulouse Blagnac Airport. “The construction of a n...
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New York-based ByHeart, a baby nutrition company, recently announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration registration of the company’s Reading manufacturing facility. Registration means the co...
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The 2022 Pennsylvania Hemp Summit ran Tuesday and Wednesday in Lancaster, featuring nearly 100 hemp growers and entrepreneurs. Industrial hemp is grown for fiber and seed. It is a different variety...
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The Pennsylvania House on April 26 voted 195-8 on a bipartisan basis to approve legislation that would cut the Commonwealth’s Corporate Net Income Tax (CNIT) to spur state-wide job and economic grow...
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New funding that is part of the Manufacturing PA Initiative will help students at Pennsylvania State University promote higher glass recycling rates in Pennsylvania. The project, “Enabling Impro...
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced Friday that the Greater Johnstown Career & Technology Center (Center) would receive new funding for phase two of its Advanced Manufacturing and Programming Educati...
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Pittsburgh-based EQT will partner with Bloom to bring certified, responsibly sourced natural gas to its fleet. Bloom, a trusted partner in delivering lower carbon energy to its clients, said it ha...
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Legislation recently introduced in the state House would amend current law to provide well-plugging contracts to Pennsylvania companies. In Pennsylvania, there are 26,000 orphaned oil and gas wells...
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The Manufacturers’ Association of York, Pa., announced Tuesday it had been awarded a grant for more than $500,000 from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry to expand the ‘Apprenticesh...
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The Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) recently awarded 26 apprenticeship programs statewide more than $11 million in PAsmart grants through the Apprenticeship and Training Office (ATO). Grants t...
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Pittsburgh-based Alcoa Corporation announced last week that its Alumar smelter in Sao Luis, Brazil, has energized its first 20 smelting pots as part of the location’s restart of aluminum capacity. ...
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