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State Rep. Joshua Kail (R-Beaver/Washington) announced Tuesday that he plans to introduce legislation that would allow municipal waste management systems to work with manufacturers using advanced recy...
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The Lehigh Valley’s gross domestic product (GDP) reached $41.2 billion in 2018, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis, which is 4.4 percent higher than 2017 an...
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SC Water, LLC, a natural gas and oil industry investment group based in Pennsylvania, announced Tuesday that it closed on the previously announced acquisition of Keystone Clearwater Solutions (Keyston...
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The Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership recently launched a $5.2 Million regional economic and community development initiative during its annual meeting.
“Erie Forward is the most strat...
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Sen. Camera Bartolotta (R-Beaver/Washington/Greene) announced Friday that several rail freight improvement projects in Washington and Beaver counties will receive state grants from the Pennsylvania De...
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Montgomery County Commissioners recently adopted a $428.4 million budget for 2020.
The budget provides a 2.75 percent wage increase for all nonrepresented employees effective Jan. 1 and includes l...
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F.N.B. Corp. will relocate its corporate headquarters for First National Bank to FNB Financial Center in downtown Pittsburgh.
The 24-story, mixed-use tower is planned for the corner of Washington ...
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Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) and Osaka Gas announced Tuesday that the CPV Fairview Energy Center (CPV Fairview) in Jackson Township near Johnstown, Pa., a 1,050-megawatt (MW) natural gas and ethan...
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Astrobotic Technology, a space robotics company, plans to relocate its headquarters from Carnegie Mellon University to Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood.
The company will invest $6.55 million ...
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Allegheny Technologies Incorporated, a specialty metals manufacturer headquartered in Pittsburgh, announced Tuesday that it signed several new long-term contracts to supply GE Aviation with iso-therma...
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Tyber Medical, LLC, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday for its new medical device manufacturing facility in the Lehigh Valley.
The company, which manufactures private label orthopedic and spinal...
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Limelight Bio, a multi-disease biopharmaceutical company developing gene therapies, recently raised $75 million in financing funded by life sciences innovation fund Apple Tree Partners (ATP).
The c...
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Department of Labor and Industry (L&I) Secretary Jerry Oleksiak recently toured Central Westmoreland Career and Technology Center in New Stanton and discussed the importance of investing in job traini...
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Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines global business unit of Sanofi, recently entered into a contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to increase the company's domestic pandemic in...
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PPG Industries recently announced it will raise the price of industrial coatings products up to 10 percent globally.
The increase will go into effect as early as permissible by contract or on Jan....
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Sen. Lisa M. Boscola (D-Lehigh/Northampton) expressed disappointment following a recent announcement by transportation officials that the planned Route 22 expansion project would be placed on indefini...
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Rep. Seth Grove (R-Dover) recently issued a statement in response to a Pennsylvania grand jury report that finds that Pennsylvania’s Keystone Innovation Zone and Pennsylvania Research and Developmen...
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Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) Deputy Secretary for Workforce Development Eileen Cipriani toured the Lebanon County Career and Technology Center (LCCTC) in Lebanon Wednesday and discussed the im...
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The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) recently awarded Lehigh and Northampton counties nearly $400 million in Interstate Transportation funding for Lehigh Valley projects in the 2021...
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Gov. Tom Wolf, along with legislators and local education leaders, toured the Eastern Center for Arts and Technology (EASTERN) in Montgomery County, Penn., this week.
The students led the governor ...
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