Brian Pedersen, Author at LVB

News March 27, 2020

Local payment processor seeks to raise $200M for hospitality industry

With restaurants and other hospitality businesses facing some of the earliest and largest financial losses from COVID-19, one local company established an online resource to help raise more than $200 million for them.

News March 26, 2020

Temperature control device manufacturer aids companies researching COVID-19 cure

Julabo USA, a company in Hanover Township, Lehigh County, is among those businesses that’s staying open because it is helping to equip pharmaceutical companies that are working on vaccines, research, and drug therapies to directly combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

News March 25, 2020

COVID-19 ends LVIA’s 30-month growth pattern

The rapidly changing and spreading virus upended nearly 30 consecutive months of positive passenger traffic at Lehigh Valley International Airport and put a financial strain on the airport as it continues operating and providing services.

News March 25, 2020

The $2 trillion stimulus package is ‘a great start,’ says local business leader

With the White House and Senate reaching a deal earlier today to provide a $2 trillion stimulus package to bolster the national economy in the wake of COVID-19, Pennsylvania’s small businesses can benefit if they act now, according to the leader of a local mortgage-lending firm.

News March 24, 2020

St. Luke’s, local businesses collaborate to produce masks that protect against COVID-19

Bethlehem’s St. Luke’s and Filament Innovations of Coplay, as well as 3D manufacturer ProtoCAM of Upper Macungie Township, have teamed up to produce 3D printed masks and face shields for health care providers to help protect them from COVID-19.

News March 24, 2020

Local company makes air purification systems that kill COVID-19

LifeAire Systems, an Upper Macungie Township company that creates in-duct air purification systems that remove airborne pathogens such as COVID-19, is looking to produce more. The company developed the technology for the in vitro fertilization industry and installed it in its first hospital a couple years ago.

News March 23, 2020

Builders, contractors, seeking exemption from Wolf’s closure order

In a letter to Gov. Tom Wolf, officials from the five chapters that make up the Associated Builders and Contractors of Pennsylvania, asked for a waiver for the construction-industry-at-large, and clarification of his executive order to shut down businesses.

News March 20, 2020

Pennsylvania Chamber seeks clarity, modification, of Wolf’s closure order

Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry is seeking modification and clarification of Gov. Tom Wolf’s order closing all “non-life sustaining businesses" in the state.

News March 20, 2020

Here are the businesses affected by state-wide mandatory closure

To slow the spread of COVID-19, Gov. Tom Wolf ordered all non-life-sustaining businesses in Pennsylvania to close their physical locations late yesterday, and offered a comprehensive list of those types of businesses affected.

News March 19, 2020

Gov. Wolf orders closure of all non-life-sustaining businesses

Gov. Tom Wolf today ordered all non-life-sustaining businesses in Pennsylvania to close their physical locations as of 8 p.m. today, March 19, to slow the spread of COVID-19.

News March 19, 2020

Gov. Wolf orders all non-life-sustaining businesses to close

Gov. Tom Wolf today ordered all non-life-sustaining businesses in Pennsylvania to close their physical locations as of 8 p.m. today, March 19, to slow the spread of COVID-19.

News March 19, 2020

Can I cancel my contract because of coronavirus?

As states and counties around the country are taking protective measures with the concern of the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, the time has come for individuals and organizations to consider how their contractual agreements might be impacted or if their contracts are enforceable at all.