The 2024-25 budget would increase funding for career and technical education (CTE) and equipment by $30 million. “Over the past two years, I’ve visited career and technical schools in Altoona...
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Training and recruiting skilled workers in the manufacturing field are top concerns in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, as in other parts of the state, according to testimony given during a hearing led...
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Gas Works Revenue Bonds 17th Series A&B have provided Philadelphia with $315 million for Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW) infrastructure investments. Improvements will focus on maintaining a safe, r...
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A proposed new $1.3 billion arena for the Philadelphia 76ers would create more than 1,000 construction and operations jobs. The project also is paired with an Economic Opportunity Plan (EOP) that w...
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Malvern-based Vishay Intertechnology, a manufacturer of discrete semiconductors and passive components, recently announced its is restructuring to streamline business decision making as it prepares to...
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A bipartisan group of Pennsylvania lawmakers on Capitol Hill urged the General Services Administration (GSA) to expedite a U.S. Navy contract with Gecko Robotics to bolster national security and creat...
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains recently selected Philadelphia-based Braskem America, a polyolefins and biopolymer producer, to negotiate a $50 milli...
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Swiss-based Hitachi Energy, an energy technology company, plans to invest $60 million in its Mount Pleasant facility. The investment will double production capacity for high-voltage switchgear and ...
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Constellation Energy Corp. signed its largest-ever power purchase agreement (PPA) with Microsoft, a 20-year deal that will pave the way for the launch of the Londonderry, Pa.-based Crane Clean Energy ...
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Georgia-based Pye-Barker Fire & Safety, a fire protection and security systems provider, recently purchased Bethlehem-based Altronics Security Solutions, a security alarms, video surveillance and acce...
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Pittsburgh-based PPG and the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE), one of the world’s largest environmental education networks, recently entered into a two-year partnership. Under the ter...
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Philadelphia-based WhiteHawk Energy, a company focused on acquiring mineral and royalty interests in top tier natural gas resource plays, recently acquired additional Marcellus Shale natural gas miner...
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Belle Vernon-based Guttman Energy, a full-service fuel distribution company, and Source One Transportation, a petroleum and alternative fuels delivery and logistics services provider, recently acquire...
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Braskem, the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas, recently launched WENEW, a bio-circular polypropylene (PP). WENEW is derived from used cooking oil, and will be marketed to the restaurant...
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Taylor Chip, a family-owned cookie manufacturer, is investing $15.1 million to expand its Lancaster County facility. The company plans to construct a 25,000-square-foot building at its existing l...
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The U.S. Army recently finalized a contract modification worth more than $440 million with UK-based BAE Systems, a defense and space manufacturing company, to produce additional Bradley Fighting Vehic...
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Natural gas will have an increasingly critical role in fueling and maintaining the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing and advanced manufacturing, particularly as energy demand continues rising, acc...
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Germany-based BGS Beta-Gamma-Service GmbH & Co., a medical equipment manufacturing company, plans to open a facility in Pittsburgh next year. The facility, which will operate under the name BGS US ...
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With many companies facing or expecting to face a skills gap in the coming years, help could come from a Pennsylvania Republican’s proposed federal legislation, which would create a pilot program to...
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Philadelphia-based Braskem, a polyolefins and biopolymers producer, recently opened a 35,000-square-foot Renewable Innovation Center in Lexington, Mass, in the Greater Boston area. “This is a gr...
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