The House and Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs committees held on Wednesday as part of Penn State’s annual Ag Progress Days a joint meeting focusing on animal health and biosecurity initiatives ...
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Colony Holding Companies recently purchased the 6.4-acre Rt. 30 Redevelopment Project in Jeannette from the Westmoreland County Land Bank for $2.1 million. The company plans to develop the propert...
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U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry visited on Tuesday the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh to learn about the laboratory’s work related to using artificial intelligenc...
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The Marcellus Shale Coalition said in a press release Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s recent visit to the ethane cracker plant currently under construction in Beaver County highlights the “e...
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The Montgomery County Workforce Development Board, the area’s workforce development board, will be offering free manufacturing boot camps to people interested in pursuing a career in manufacturing. ...
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State Sen. Joe Pittman (R-Armstrong County) announced Monday that he would soon introduce legislation designed to reduce the amount of funding diverted from transportation improvement projects to stat...
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AirBorn, Inc., which engineers and manufactures specialized connectors and electronic components for original equipment manufacturers, recently broke ground on an extension of its manufacturing facili...
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The College of Liberal and Professional (LPS) Studies and School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania announced yesterday the launch of a cybersecurity boot camp for ad...
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The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recently approved a request by Gov. Tom Wolf to declare a disaster in Allegheny County due to intense storms that produced damaging flash flooding between ...
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FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. (FES) recently announced its plans to accelerate the deactivation of its remaining coal-powered unit in Beaver County, Pa., because of a lack of economic viability in curre...
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The hemp industry in Pennsylvania is making a comeback as the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture issued more than 300 permits on nearly 600 acres at more than 800 different growing locations so fa...
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State Sen. Maria Collett (D-Bucks/Montgomery) recently introduced a bill memo for co-sponsorship to establish a Public Works Impacted Business Tax Credit, which would aim to mitigate short-term advers...
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Continental Cup Company (CCC), a manufacturer of high-end graphic paper cups, will establish its first manufacturing operation in the City of Bethlehem in Northampton County, Gov. Tom Wolf recently an...
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Texas-based AirBorn, an industrial electronics manufacturer, broke ground Wednesday on the 30,000-square-foot expansion of its Lake City, Pa., location. The $3.7 million investment will double the ...
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Gov. Tom Wolf announced Wednesday new low-interest loan approvals through the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority (PIDA) for three businesses in Bedford, Bucks and Philadelphia counties. ...
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The Senate Communications and Technology Committee held a public hearing Wednesday in Indiana County on the role and impact high-speed internet plays in today’s economy. The public hearing, reque...
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Pennsylvania state officials and Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association (PMA) President and CEO David N. Taylor recently visited Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) to offer help and advice relat...
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Olympic Steel Inc. recently announced that it acquired certain assets related to the manufacturing of the EZ-Dumper hydraulic dump inserts. EZ-Dumper will be included in Olympic Steel’s Carbon F...
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Department of Labor & Industry (L&I) Deputy Secretary for Workforce Development Eileen Cipriani recently visited SEKISUI SPI's global thermoplastics manufacturing facility in Bloomsburg to highlight t...
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System One, a provider of staffing, workforce solutions and integrated services based in Pittsburgh, announced Monday that one of its companies, ALTA IT Services, LLC recently acquired Cohesion. Co...
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