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The Department of Labor and Industry (L&I) recently made $6 million available in Statewide Layoff Aversion Program funding to support at-risk businesses.
Funding can be used for Rapid Response Serv...
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TD Bank, which has locations in 63 Pennsylvania cities and towns, announced Wednesday it would launch a five-year Community Benefits Plan that would provide an estimated $50 billion impact to its comm...
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Pennsylvania Sen. Gene Yaw (R-23) announced Thursday that he will be reintroducing legislation to help establish the legal and regulatory framework for carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (C...
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On Wednesday, the Chester County Economic Development Council announced that it had created the Pennsylvania Global Business Advisors (GBA) group that would provide support and advice for businesses a...
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The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry announced this week that it had awarded the Advanced Manufacturing Industry Partnership of South-Central Pennsylvania a $250,000 grant to support the ...
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The federal Inflation Reduction Act will provide $10 billion in new funding for the Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Credit program.
The program incentivizes industrial decarbonization, clean ene...
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Through a new joint venture, UGI Energy Services and Archaea Energy will develop a renewable natural gas (RNG) project at the Commonwealth Environmental Systems landfill in Hegins, Pa.
The new join...
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Delaware-based WSFS Financial Corp., a financial services company, recently completed its approximately $976.4 million merger with Bryn Mawr-based Bryn Mawr Bank Corp.
The Bryn Mawr Trust Company p...
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The Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) plans to create a re-entry program designed to help those formerly incarcerated in federal prisons pursue family-sustaining jobs.
This will be the first o...
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Malvern-based CertainTeed Roofing, the building products subsidiary of Saint-Gobain North America, recently acquired the technology rights from recycling partner Asphaltica.
This allows the company...
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Los Angeles-based Circularix, a producer of food-grade post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate (rPET), said it has started production at its plant in Hatfield, Pa.
The Hatfield plant is one of fi...
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Global foodservice distribution company Sysco Corporation announced Wednesday it would partner with Penn State University and Arizona State University to develop innovations in packaging and food wast...
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Mason Infrastructure Group Inc. announced Thursday it had broken ground on a new Bitcoin mining facility in Sharon, Pa.
The first 6 Modular Data Centers have been installed, the company said, and ...
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Pittsburgh-based Stratus Materials, Inc., previously operating as 33 Tech Inc., announced it has begun pilot-scale production of a highly promising, manganese-rich, cobalt-free cathode material for li...
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Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania (Ben Franklin Northeast) recently launched the Life Science and Healthcare Technology Fund to assist life science startups in Northeastern...
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TCN Worldwide Real Estate Services, an alliance of independent brokerage firms in the commercial real estate industry, recently opened an office in Pittsburgh.
New offices also opened in Ohio and...
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Philadelphia’s Smart City PHL team at the Office of Innovation of Technology recently launched the Permit Navigator pilot project.
The project’s goal is to understand if the Permit Navigator t...
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Penn State’s Center for Critical Minerals has been awarded $2.1 million in federal funding to design, build and test a modular pilot-scale research and development unit.
The unit will recover r...
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On Thursday, Pennsylvania Rep. Stephenie Scialabba (R-Butler) held a hearing for the House Republican Policy Committee focusing on workforce development to meet employers’ and consumers’ needs.
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Belle Vernon-based Source One Transportation, a petroleum and alternative fuels delivery, logistics, and fuel distribution management provider, is offsetting its carbon emissions through the purchase ...
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