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Air Products teams up with California company to produce clean fuels
Air Products is teaming up with World Energy to build a $2 billion expansion at World Energy’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) hub in Paramount, California to produce renewable fuel. The Los Angeles County production and distribution facility, the world's first commercial scale and North America's only SAF production facility, will[...]
Reading Bakery Systems offers new pita chip production system
Reading Bakery Systems (RBS) has introduced a production system that produces baked, split pita chips, as well as a variety of other baked crisp products. The Robesonia-based company said the fully automated pita chip production system builds on the RBS Multi‐Crisp Technology with an additional multi‐pass proofer, pita dicer and[...]
Apprenticeship programs are on the rise and the state is investing
Apprenticeship programs are growing across the state to help students earn while they learn and provide employers with a stream of workers they need. Thursday, Gov. Tom Wolf announced awards totaling more than $11 million for 26 apprenticeship programs for occupations in agriculture, manufacturing, health care, IT, education, human services,[...]
Lehigh University among 17 schools chosen for Manufacturing PA grants
Lehigh University is one of 17 colleges in the state to receive grants totaling $2.3 million through the Manufacturing PA initiative, Gov. Tom Wolf said today. The initiative is funding 36 student research projects that will help advance innovation in several sectors of manufacturing, from 3D printing to waste sustainability,[...]
Agricultural research proposals sought by state
The state Department of Agriculture is looking for research proposals on sustaining and growing Pennsylvania’s $132.5 billion agriculture industry. “Agriculture bears the brunt of the impact of complex challenges with no simple solutions,” said Russell Redding, secretary. “Research is the first critical step toward managing the costly and complex challenges[...]
Riverside Business Center sold for $34.65 million
Riverside Business Center, Whitehall, has been sold for $34.65 million. 1788/Riverside Business Center LLC sold the complex, a 423,900-square-foot, single story light industrial building to Buligo Capital Partners, an international investment firm, for $34.65 million. 1788/Riverside Business Center, an affiliate of 1788 Holdings LLC, a Bethesda, Maryland-based real estate investment[...]
NCC to use state grant to offer new course for low-income students and veterans
Northampton Community College (NCC) will receive more than $50,000 state funding to develop a new Precision Machining program for low-income students, veterans and others in Lehigh Valley. Gov. Tom Wolf today said the funding is through the Manufacturing PA Training-to-Career (MTTC) grant. “I’m proud to support Northampton Community College’s Precision[...]
Training program offers students insight into link between agriculture and manufacturing careers
Students in Berks and Chester counties can explore the link between agriculture and manufacturing careers through Pennsylvania’s Manufacturing PA Training-to-Career Program (MTTC). Gov. Tom Wolf this week announced new funding for the Chester County Economic Development Foundation (CCEDF), through MTTC to create the program. “Highlighting the connection between agricultural and[...]
Springhouse, Bangor top ‘What’s So Cool About Manufacturing Awards
More than 1,000 people packed into SteelStacks in Bethlehem to learn “What’s So Cool About Manufacturing,” and to learn the results of the annual video contest that pairs middle school students with 28 Lehigh Valley manufacturers to promote careers in manufacturing. The student videos received 128,620 votes over a three-day voting period[...]
Bowery Farming brings indoor vertical farming to Bethlehem
Agriculture is growing up. Vertically, that is. Bowery Farming, a company started by Irving Fain in 2015, is opening an indoor vertical farming operation in Bethlehem in May. The farm, opening in a new, state-of-the-art 150,000-square-foot facility on an 8.7-acre former brownfield site, will employ 70 “modern” farmers to run[...]
Lansford Alive to honor Hill’s Machine Shop owner
Lansford Alive will honor longtime businessman Kenny Hill, owner of Hill's Machine Shop, which closed Dec. 31, after 65 years in business. The event sponsored by Lansford Alive, will take place at the machine shop along Dock St. in Lansford on April 14 from 2pm-6pm. The building, the former Lehigh[...]
Allen Organ opening new Lehigh Valley sales complex
Allen Organ Co. announced the upcoming addition of a new, state-of-the-art, sales complex to be located conveniently adjacent to the company's manufacturing facility in Macungie. Allen Organ Co. Said it has the largest organ-building facility in the world encompassing over 200,000 square feet. Having all manufacturing, engineering, and sales under[...]
