Uline is getting ready to open its new 925,000-square-foot East Coast Distribution Center at 8449 Congdon Hill Drive in Alburtis. 

Uline in Allentown is expanding its workforce to meet the increasing demands for its shipping, industrial and packaging products. 

Wisconsin-based Uline, a shipping supply specialist, is opening a new distribution center in Allentown and plans to hire between 90-120 associates to staff the facility.  

With work search requirements for unemployment compensation resuming in July, Uline is hoping more people will begin looking for work and is looking to hire more than 150 people for warehouse positions for its facility in Lower Macungie Township

It’s a good time to be a worker in the region. Wages are dramatically higher because of growth in the industrial sector and the demand for workers in retail and hospitality industries that had to let many employees go at the height of the pandemic.

Wages are dramatically higher because of growth in the industrial sector and the demand for workers in retail and hospitality industries that had to let many employees go at the height of the pandemic.

A group of a dozen teachers from the Allentown, Salisbury and Whitehall-Coplay school districts will be wrapping up a program at Lehigh Carbon Community College this week that is helping them get involved in developing students’ interest in STEM careers.