Mack Truck has announced that it will commercialize the Mack LR Electric refuse truck it has been testing, and the trucks will be manufactured in the Lehigh Valley.

Client 1st Financial was established in 2011, has over 637 clients and manages $177M in assets. Client 1st is located in Fogelsville and serves clients in 23 states. Michael J. Fischer, president and CEO is a lifelong resident of the Lehigh Valley who has been in the financial services field for over 32 years.

Amazon and the Giant Co. have announced they’ll be hiring thousands in the region and even a Lehigh Valley shopping center, The Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley is hosting a job fair next week to meet the demand for workers.

The United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley is kicking off its 2020 campaign with an extra boost. City Center Investment Corp., the company behind much of the development going on in downtown Allentown, pledged a $1 million matching gift through its Building Community initiative.

Because of production delays caused by the company’s manufacturing shutdown during the COVID-19 crisis earlier this year it has decided it won’t be putting out any specialty peeps or other candies this year so it can concentrate on its biggest holiday – Easter.

Two Lehigh Valley companies that have partnered to develop and manufacture a pair of COVID-19 vaccines said they may have a vaccine to market by spring of next year.

To mark the 25 anniversary of the last steel beam made at Bethlehem Steel, a number of community organizations are organizing “Last Cast 25,” a series of events that will include the Steel Weekend at the National Museum of Industrial History, Sept. 26-27.

After announcing a contract to provide nitrogen to a memory chip maker in Malaysia, Air Products of Trexlertown said it has also just been contracted to provide Main Cryogenic Heat Exchangers to a company in Algeria.

Mack Trucks Lehigh Valley will soon have a new leader. The Volvo Group, which owns Mack, has named Gunnar Brunius as vice president and general manager of the plant in Lower Macungie Township.

Air Products of Trexlertown has been awarded a long-term contract in Malaysia to provide nitrogen to a global manufacturer of memory chips.