Curtiss-Wright Corporation (as in Glenn Curtiss, the father of naval aviation; Wright as in the pioneering aviation brothers) is building a new facility in Bethlehem and creating 95 jobs.
The PA Department of Community & Economic Development (DCED) says the company will move its Engineered Pump Division from Phillipsburg, NJ to a new 179,000-square-foot facility in Bethlehem, a more than $7 million capital investment. The division provides a wide range of highly engineered, mission-critical and general-service products for the Navy, Coast Guard and related maritime customers.
“We … look forward to supplying our mission-critical products and services from our new, modern manufacturing, testing, warehousing and office facility,” Todd Schurra, the division's general manager, said in a statement.
Curtiss-Wright received a funding offer from DCED including a $200,000 PA First Program grant, a $42,750 Guaranteed Free Training grant to train its new workforce, and a $2.3 million loan from the Machinery and Equipment Loan Fund.
The company was created in 1929 as a merger between Curtiss Aeroplane and Wright Aeronautical Corporation. Based in Parsippany, NJ, Curtiss-Wright is today a global engineering and manufacturing company with 10,000 employees worldwide. The company already has about 760 employees in Pennsylvania, according to DCED.
Source: Lyndsay Frank, DCED
Writer: Elise Vider