Georgia-Pacific has announced that it is closing its Lehigh Valley Dixie Cup manufacturing facility in Forks Township by the end of the year. Around 190 jobs at the facility will be lost by the closure starting in late March.

As of 2019, Pennsylvania’s manufacturing industry accounted for 11.9% of the commonwealth’s total output, according to statistics from the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). Following the global financial crisis of 2008, the sector has been on a trajectory of consistent growth, producing $93.75 billion at the end of 2018 - up from less than $74 billion in 2009. 

D.G. Yuengling & Sons said it is now ready to begin the westward expansion that it announced last year – first stop Texas.

The counties have begun their fifth year of the video competition organized by the Manufacturer’s Resource Center that pairs students with manufacturers in the region to learn about manufacturing careers.

The Next Generation Industry Partnership grants work to bring together multiple employers in the same industry to collectively provide targeted job training so that students, workers and job seekers get the skills to work in those industries.

Air products will support the flagship chemical project of Shandong Binhua New Material Co. Ltd. in Binzhou City, China.

“After one particularly bad toot, I looked for a medicine that could help, but I couldn't find what I was looking for,” she said. Thus was born Stinkybutt, a business recently started by Morrison and her 11-year-old daughter Everlee.

While it’s always been important to achieving end results in manufacturing, COVID-19 has emphasized the critical nature of solid supply chain management and practices in meeting customer and consumer needs.

Foundational to shipping and receiving, trucking and distribution, commerce and trade, the wooden pallet and skid business is brisk and strong demand for these handling workhorses is expected to continue.

The company hired Frank Newman as vice president of operations. Newman will manage Tower’s production, procurement and logistics.