Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania has approved $210,000 in investments in regional manufacturers.

David Jaindl, owner of Jaindl Land Co. of Orefield, said he bought 6.5 acres from Lehigh County along Route 100 in Upper Macungie Township, where he plans to build a distribution center.

An Orwigsburg-based company that manufactures recyclable food trays is opening a plant in Schuylkill County that will eventually employ more than 125 people.

Lehigh Career & Technical Institute broke ground Thursday on a 12,000-square-foot addition that will house the school’s Welding Technology Center.

EnerSys, an industrial battery maker based in Bern Township, Berks County, is closing a plant in Bulgaria that makes batteries for submarines, according to a regulatory filing.

More than $1 million in grants through the Manufacturing PA initiative were announced Wednesday, with the goal of spurring new technologies and processes in the state's manufacturers.

A manufacturer in the scientific instrumentation realm is the first tenant slated to occupy a $60 million development on 260 acres near Pennridge Airport.

Schneider Electric, a global energy management and automation company with a U.S. headquarters in Boston, said it will be closing a production facility in Leesport and eliminating 231 jobs.

Nearly a year after a Maryland-based real estate investment company bought The Riverside Business Center, a light industrial property in Whitehall Township for $11.65 million, the company has acquired its last tenant.

In the land of industrial property sales and leases, e-commerce is king.