Looking for proof that manufacturing isn't dying in Pennsylvania? Acutec Precision Manufacturing employs about 275 people, up from around 200 when it trimmed its workforce during the recession. Its challenge now is finding enough skilled workers.
Accreditation for a solar panel course in the Lehigh Valley and graduates from a new on-site MBA program in Pittsburgh are among the sector's recent firsts in Pennsylvania.
Pittsburgh-based Montauk Energy is expanding its landfill gas-to-energy operations with the acquisition of seven landfill gas-fueled electric generation projects in Texas and California.
The term 'tech transfer' is giving way to new approaches focused more on developing technologies rooted in the region's vast academic and research laboratory, and early results are promising.
It's easier for people in Pennsylvania to recycle, and they can recycle more materials than they could a few years ago. That turns into great news for people who make a living turning old things into new.
Grove City College senior Jayna Grassel learned how to crochet at the age of 8 and turned her hobby into a business at 14. Sales of handcrafted hats and original patterns helped pay for her degree in entrepreneurship.
SolarPA has developed a thin nanocrystal coating that can be applied to the cells that go into solar panels. Sunlight bounces off the almost imperceptible nanocrystals and refracts into the solar panel rather than bouncing back into space.
Centricity2, a web connectivity platform used by 1,200 clients nationwide, is a finalist for a CODiE award, given by the Software & Information Industry Association. Winners are due to be announced in May.
A team of researchers, including some from Penn State, examined more than 1 million queries posted on social networks over 190 days. If these queries were posted on Google instead, they would have been worth $33 million in advertising.
Eriez' new CleanStream separation system allows scrap-metal processors to use fewer workers and end up with a final product that has minimal contamination.