A new report by real estate firm CBRE said developers and investors are grappling with the specialized requirements needed to build new cold storage warehouses.

Oct. 4 is national Manufacturing Day. To mark the occasion a number of Lehigh Valley manufacturers held special events to promote manufacturing careers to young people.

The initiative is a collaboration of nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states that are looking toward a market-based approach to reduce gas emissions and combat climate change, but in a way that generates economic growth.

HeidelbergCement of Germany said its North American subsidiary, Lehigh Hanson Inc., will be buying the plant from Giant Cement for $151 million.

Officials from the federal Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration office presented a free workshop as a way to help other companies learn new ideas on addressing safety.

All Weather Insulated Panels, a California-based manufacturer of insulated metal panels with two manufacturing facilities, one in California and one in Arkansas, will open a third manufacturing operation in Monroe County, creating 70 new full-time jobs.

Invertase Brewing Co., a family-run business, will open Oct. 10 in a vacant space at 51 North Broad St. in Phillipsburg, New Jersey near the Easton border.

Richard Hobbs is the third president and CEO for the Manufacturers Resource Center since its inception, some 30+ years ago.

How can employers recruit and retain good employees in today’s tight job market? The answer, according to the professionals gathered for this year’s Lehigh Valley Business HR Symposium, is to adapt to the changing needs of the workforce. “Employers are chasing a very small pool of available workers,” said Jacob Stitman, shareholder with Fitzpatrick Lentz ...

One precision machine technology instructor at Carbon Career & Technical Institute in Jim Thorpe has been working at the school for 13 years and in that time, has helped many of his students win national medals for competing against students from across the U.S. through the SkillsUSA program.