Manufacturing
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Newsweek: Radnor’s Airgas Named to America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity 2024
Airgas, an Air Liquide company in Radnor, has been chosen as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity in 2024, writes Main Line Times & Suburban. The list of workplaces was created by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group and features large and mid-size companies recognized by their employees for respecting and valuing diversity in the…
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KMM Group Overcomes Hurdles to Establishing Hatboro Global Headquarters
Despite hitting some challenges in its quest to establish its global headquarters in Hatboro, Precision Machining and Grinding Company KMM Group has received its permanent certificate of occupancy for the facility. The company said this is an important step as it completes its relocation to the new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in January. “Despite harrowing challenges,…
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Doylestown’s Howe Turkey Farm Offers Ethically Raised, Sustainable Turkeys This Holiday Season
Doylestown’s Howe Turkey Farm, a second-generation family enterprise renowned for sustainable and humane turkey farming since 1988, is taking pre-orders for the holiday season, writes Emily Kovach for PAeats. The farm, deeply committed to ethical practices, ensures each chick is raised in a stress-free environment within their comfortable barns, nourished on a healthy diet, and…
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Boathouse Sports in Northeast Philadelphia Wants to Ensure America Remains a Manufacturing Powerhouse
While manufacturing has largely migrated from the United States to overseas over the past several decades, one Northeast Philadelphia-based production company wants to ensure U.S. manufacturing isn’t completely wiped away, writes Sarah Jones for Newsbreak. Cindy DiPietrantonio is the CEO of Boathouse Sports in Northeast Philadelphia and has had many skeptics disregard the company’s onshoring…
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Chester County’s R-V Industries Acquires 143-Year-Old Company Founded on ‘Printers Row’ in Philadelphia
Honey Brook-based R-V Industries, a leading provider of industrial engineering and manufacturing solutions, has acquired R.W. Hartnett, an experienced source for pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and confectionary printing, laser writing/drilling, and vision inspection equipment. “The Hartnett acquisition expands our products and services in the food and pharmaceutical industries,” said Kirk Putt, president and CEO of R-V. “Anne…
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Mount Airy Skincare Company Aims to Land Big-Box Retailer Deal
SCB Naturals, a Mount Airy skincare company, is hoping to land its product on the shelves of a big-box retailer in 2024 and grow its e-commerce, writes Lisa Dukart for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The company was launched by Philadelphia native Lakisha Bullock in 2015. She started making her medicine after she had trouble finding…
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Bryn Mawr Native and Corvette Legend Reeves Callaway Remembered
The founder of Callaway Cars, Reeves Callaway, will be remembered for his passion for cars, and his innovation in performance kits, writes Chris Perkins for Road & Track. Callaway, a native of Bryn Mawr, passed away recently at the age of 75 at his home in Newport Beach, California. Ely “Reeves” Callaway III was born…
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FMC Corporation Once Again Makes Barron’s List of 100 Most Sustainable U.S Companies
For the second consecutive year, Philadelphia-based FMC Corporation, a global agricultural sciences company, has made Barron’s annual list of the 100 Most Sustainable U.S. Companies. FMC is also the only agriculture company to make the list for the second year in a row and one of only 29 companies on the list that posted a…
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Approaching Its 50th Anniversary, Chester County’s R-V Industries Continues to Grow with Latest Acquisition
Honey Brook-based R-V Industries, a leading industrial equipment manufacturer, has acquired Ackley Machine Corporation, a company in Moorestown, N.J., that is a preeminent source for pharmaceutical and confectionary printing, laser marking, laser drilling, and vision inspection technology. “We are excited to add Ackley Machine to the R-V Industries family,” said Kirk A. Putt, president and…
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King of Prussia’s Purolite Building New Plant in Chester County
King of Prussia-based Purolite is joining the wave of investments in Chester County facilities. The company is spending $190 million to turn Landenberg’s W.L. Gore facility into its latest factory. Purolite is a company that produces resin beads for purifying water and medical pills, writes Joseph N. DiStefano for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The plant,…
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Wall Street Journal: Wharton Grad Keeps Tesla Rolling As Elon Musk’s Attention Gets Pulled in Several Directions
Zach Kirkhorn, a graduate of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and CFO of Tesla, is the one who is keeping the electric vehicle company rolling while Elon Musk’s attention is pulled in different directions, report Rebecca Elliott and Zoe Thomas for the Tech News Briefing podcast at The Wall Street Journal. According to…
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Gilbertsville Manufacturer Recalls When the Pandemic Almost Blew Away Memorial Day Flag Sales
Just prior to Memorial Day 2020, then-Gov. Wolf’s decision to block FlagZone, a flag manufacturer in Gilbertsville, from operating during the pandemic became something of a business brouhaha. Jessica Calefati covered it for The Philadelphia Inquirer. “Gov. Wolf is not allowing companies that distribute U.S. flags to ship out orders to be placed at veteran’s…
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Hatboro-Based Machining Company Brings 1940s Building to 2023 Standards
KMM Group, Ltd., a Montgomery County machining and grinding company, has reached the final stage of the renovation of its Hatboro manufacturing facility. Charles Sternberg, from Medical Product Outsourcing, reported the update. KMM is transforming a 100,000-square-foot building, initially built in the 1940s and renovated until the 1980s, into a high-end, high-capacity mission-critical manufacturing environment.…
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Wall Street Journal: Bring the Old Boeing Back
Boeing investors are focused on the company making money again after a tough few years, but they should be asking instead when Boeing will have a new airplane design and start making airplanes again, writes Jon Sindreu for The Wall Street Journal. Its last 747 was rolled out earlier in December. In November, Boeing Chief…
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Wall Street Journal: Warminster Manufacturer Helps to Add the Finishing Touch to Local Car Sales
A Bucks County company has become known for adding a special touch to a major purchase, but the current economy is affecting their business. Jon Pinsker wrote about the local company in The Wall Street Journal. The Car Bow Store, located at 440 Nina Way in Warminster, specializes in making the decorative plus-sized bows that…
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Hatfield Company May Have Cracked the Nut on a Test to Diagnose Peanut Allergies
Allergensis, a Hatfield-based manufacturer, is marketing tests that it states are predictively accurate in diagnosing peanut allergies, providing more reliable results of traditional skin or blood testing. Jennifer Goodwin cracked open this breakthrough in Food Allergy. The firm’s tests enable patients to determine allergy thresholds more accurately by measuring epitopes, the sequences of amino…
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August 2022 Manufacturing Activity Grinds Forward Locally for First Time in Three Months
The Phila.-area manufacturing industry topped its projections for Aug., expanding for the first time in three months. But there’s still a long way to go for this line of business to get fully churning again. Reade Pickert cranked out a regional update for Bloomberg. Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (FRB-Phila.) showed that…
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A Plan to Expand: Almac Group Intends Big Things for Its North American HQ in Souderton
Almac Group is planning a major expansion to its North American headquarters in Souderton that will considerably increase the company’s capacity for manufacturing, packaging, and storage. The plan caught Natalie Kostelni’s vision in the Philadelphia Business Journal. The Irish company will invest $65 million into a 100,000-square-foot addition that will connect to its existing 240,000-square-foot…
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