A $90 million solar panel project in Gettysburg by the world’s largest generator of wind and solar energy is raising concerns among local residents who say it threatens 1,000 acres of mostly agricultural land.

Taking the lead on a $372 million project involving hundreds of workers, dozens of governmental entities and property owners across two state lines could seem like a daunting task.

With ongoing production and supply chain shutdowns there due to the coronavirus, now officially named COVID19 by the World Health Organization, any company that has manufacturing facilities in China, or purchases vital components from that part of the world, could be impacted by the disease’s spread.

A longtime Cumberland County construction firm has been acquired by another local firm and will merge operations by the end of the month.

Glatfelter is initiating plans to move the company’s corporate headquarters from 96 S. George St. in downtown York to Charlotte, N.C. by the middle of this year.

In May of 2017, Harsco’s environmental division started working with Tosyali Holding, Turkey’s leading flat steel and steel pipe producer, on an exclusive joint venture for metal recovery and slag sale services at the company’s Toscelik Osmaniye steel production site. Harsco’s environmental division operates at more than 130 sites

The acquisition marks Harsco’s sixth major strategic transaction since 2018 to advance a corporate strategy of transformation into a global, market lending and single-thesis environmental platform, Harsco officials said on a Friday morning conference call.

The public-private compromises reflected by the proposed spending plan left industry leaders hot and cold about the budget and the overall economic climate it speaks to in the coming fiscal years.

Several regional businesses received new low-interest loan approvals Wednesday through the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority (PIDA) to help with expansions and creating new full-time jobs.

Kimball David Edward will be closing its York County-based seating production facility and plans to consolidate operations with its Baltimore headquarters by June.

Lancaster County’s Stoudts Brewing Co., which served as one of the early pioneers in the microbrewery renaissance in the U.S., will cease operations in a few months.

OpSec Security, an international company that specializes in anti-counterfeiting and brand protection solutions, has appointed Dr. Selva Selvaratnam as its CEO effective Feb. 1.

In what has been described as a first-of-its kind partnership, Turkey Hill has joined with the Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay to form the Turkey Hill Clean Water Partnership (THCWP), a public/private collaboration aimed at working with farmers to implement best-practices and environmental plans into their operations.

A Lebanon County businessman has purchased an Allentown-based manufacturing firm.

Twenty schools in south central Pennsylvania are collaborating with regional manufacturing companies on a short video contest to answer the question, What’s So Cool About Manufacturing?