Air Products & Chemicals of Trexlertown will invest $500 million to build a project with Gulf Coast Ammonia in Texas City, Texas, to produce hydrogen.

Air Products of Trexlertown has made a $1.5 million grant to ArtsQuest of Bethlehem to help with its planned Third Street Cultural Center on the site of the current Banana Factory.

As the year begins its creep to the end, the days get colder, the holidays get closer and people’s hearts and wallets seem to open a little easier.

Fifteen minutes. That’s how long it took the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center to pay off its mortgage Wednesday night, in a live fundraising campaign that executive director, Adrian Shanker admitted doesn’t happen every day in the nonprofit world.

Merck KGaA, Darmstad, German, a science and technology company, acquired Versum Materials Inc. for approximately $6.5 billion. It had announced its intent to purchase Versum in March.

The company broke ground Wednesday at the site of the new campus, which is about a mile from its existing campus at 7201 Hamilton Blvd., Trexlertown.

As an expansion of its Day of Caring – when area businesses send employee volunteers to area nonprofits for community service projects – the Volunteer Center of the Lehigh Valley Friday is holding its first-ever day of volunteering for corporate interns.

Last week Air Products of Trexlertown and Saudi Aramco opened the first hydrogen fueling station in Saudi Arabia.

June 20 marked the 27th annual United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley’s Day of Caring, which is run in partnership with the Volunteer Center of the Lehigh Valley.