When you consider that Mack Trucks found a way to use less fuel and meet federal emissions standards, it shouldn't come as a surprise that they're selling more vehicles. The company is adding a new shift of workers to meet demand for these trucks.
Palram, which opened its Lehigh Valley production facility just over a decade ago with 15 workers, now employs more than 200 people at its plant outside of Kutztown. And the manufacturer of plastic sheets is poised to grow again later this year.
After working on his own in a small northeastern PA garage for a half-dozen years, Fendrock moved his precision machining business, JKF Technologies, to the Carbondale Technology Transfer Center northeast of Scranton.
Towanda Metadyne has added to its facilities in the Northern Tier five times since moving from Elmira, N.Y., in 1995. The high-tech parts maker's latest expansion is a 12,000-square foot addition to 34,000 square feet of manufacturing space.
Specialty parts manufacturer P/M National is nearly tripling the size of its facility in St. Marys and plans to add another 10 jobs over the next three years.
Pittsburgh companies raised more than $25 million during the first quarter of 2011, a strong showing that was spread fairly evenly among technology and life science companies.
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.
Advanced-Tec Materials in West Hazleton, south of Wilkes-Barre, is marketing a variety of wares made from coal-combustion waste, including facial skin cream and shoe insoles. But its focus now is on an ash-derived foam for security doors.
Eriez' new CleanStream separation system allows scrap-metal processors to use fewer workers and end up with a final product that has minimal contamination.
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.