Allegheny County Controller Corey O’Conner announced Wednesday that he would be convening an Industry Best Practices Working Group to encourage dialogue between workforce organizations and employers...
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Pittsburgh-based energy company Duquesne Light Co. in partnership with LineVision, a real-time monitoring and analytics company working with electric utilities, plans to deploy additional dynamic line...
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First Commonwealth Financial Corporation and Centric Financial Corporation recently signed a definitive Agreement and Plan of Merger, following which Centric Financial and Centric Bank will merge into...
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Germany-based Evonik, a specialty chemicals company, recently opened an innovation hub at its Allentown site. The hub is part of the company’s global strategy for Research, Development & Innovati...
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The Southwestern Pennsylvania New Economy Collaborative announced Friday it had received a $62.7 million grant to create a robotics and autonomy cluster. Funded through the Build Back Better Regio...
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Berwyn, Pennsylvania-based Triumph Group, Inc. said Tuesday that its Actuation Products & Services group had won a 10-year contract with Diehl Aviation to manufacture fluid flow controls. The cont...
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Green Fig Land Co. (GFLC), a real estate development firm, and fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547 Realty), a data center developer, operator, and owner, have partnered to purchase more th...
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Speyside Bourbon Cooperage, a bourbon barrel manufacturer, plans to open its first Pennsylvania facility in Clarion County. The company plans to invest more than $14.6 million to purchase 20 acres ...
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West Pharmaceutical Services, a manufacturer of containment and delivery systems for injectable medicines, plans to invest $60 million to expand in Lycoming County. The company will expand its curr...
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Bitcoin mining facility TeraWulf Inc. announced Monday it had reached an agreement with a subsidiary of Talen Energy Corporation to source zero-carbon nuclear power from Talen’s 2.5 GW Susquehanna S...
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A new analysis has found that employment in the Lehigh Valley manufacturing sector grew at a faster rate than the nation as a whole over the last five years. According to the Lehigh Valley Economi...
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The Manufacturing PA initiative recently awarded the Warren County Career Center a $117,000 Manufacturing PA Training-to-Career Program (MTTC) grant. The center, a vocational-technical school servi...
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State Rep. Tim Twardzik (R-Schuylkill) announced Friday that he had hosted a public hearing of the House Majority Policy Committee to discuss barriers related to starting up and growing a business in ...
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Eric Hagarty, acting secretary of education, recently went to the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts to tour its PNC Innovation Zone. The PNC Innovation Zone addresses gender and equity barri...
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On Tuesday, the City of Philadelphia announced it had enabled 22,500 internet connections over the past two years as part of the PHLConnectED program. A response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its i...
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The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced Monday the opening of its draft 2022 Pennsylvania State Water Plan for public comments. The plan identifies regional and sta...
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The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) recently presented U.S. Rep. Fred Keller (R-PA 12th District) with the Friend of Farm Bureau Award. The award recognizes members of Congress who support t...
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Pennsylvania American Water announced Thursday that it will begin installing approximately 2,800 feet of new water main in Allegheny County as part of approximately $2 million in improvements to the s...
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The state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) recently purchased 5,600 acres in the Weiser State Forest that will be developed into a motorized recreation area. The parcel is ...
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Guardian Booth, a manufacturer of prefabricated structures, will relocate its headquarters to Waynesboro, Penn. The move from Orangeburg, N.Y., to Franklin County will create new jobs, Gov. Tom Wo...
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