An online survey of robotic start-ups companies finds that Pennsylvania has one of the largest such clusters in the world, right up there with the Silicon Valley, Boston, Tokyo and Stockholm.
Scranton's new Geisinger-Community Medical Center (G-CMC) is moving fast to enhance clinical programs, increase physician recruitment, expand and improve facilities, and implement new information systems, adding jobs and physical developments.
Deacom is a fast- growing, Wayne-based maker of enterprise resource planning software for process manufacturers.
H�rmann Flexon, a German door maker, broke ground on a 68,000-square-foot facility in Burgettstown. The plant will open next summer and eventually employ about 65, up from 30. It could grow to 220,000 square feet, accommodating a workforce of 100.
Innovation Works will award up to $800,000 in technology commercialization funding to universities, early-stage and established companies anywhere in Pennsylvania. Individual projects are eligible for up to $100,000.
Gatorade bottled in Mountain Top now comes in bottles made at the plant, bringing 35 jobs to Luzerne County. Amcor, the packaging giant, opened its new bottle manufacturing facility at the plant, capable of producing 650 million bottles a year.
Geospatial technologies, used to guide everything from satellites through space to your car through unfamiliar neighborhoods, are the focus of the new Central Pennsylvania Geospatial Technology Center (GTC).
After six years, the FDA has granted final approval to the OraQuick home HIV test, developed by OraSure Technologies in Bethlehem.
CONSOL Energy has made an initial $500,000 investment to acquire a minority stake in Epiphany Solar Water Systems, a small company in New Castle, to test Epiphany's proprietary, solar-powered, water purification system.
Johnstown's Concurrent Technologies Corporation has landed a five-year defense contract to provide sophisticated communications systems for the Navy.