Apple has announced that it has awarded $410 million from its Advanced Technology Fund to II-VI, a leading manufacturer of optical technology with facilities in Easton.

Burnham Holdings Inc., the Lancaster-based parent company of multiple subsidiaries that are domestic manufacturers of boilers and related HVAC products and accessories such as furnaces, radiators and air conditioning systems, reported a major increase in residential sales for the first quarter of 2021.

Pennsylvania has resumed use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, following a thorough federal review which reaffirmed the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness against the virus, according to the Harrisburg-based Hospital and Health System Association of Pennsylvania.

In the past 12 months, Pennsylvania's medical cannabis sales brought in $909.4M, according to an April report from Headset, a Seattle-based cannabis research and data analysis firm.

Currently a more than $55 billion industry in the U.S., the pandemic has made organics even more popular as consumers concentrate on health and well-being.

Commercial real estate experts were expecting 2020's industrial development boom to continue, but Mike Hess, senior vice president of CBRE in the Harrisburg office said industrial development along the I-78/I-81 corridor was even stronger than expected during the first quarter of the year.

Technology and automation are evolving at a rapid pace and as president at York-based PennAir, it is Bob Rhein’s job to demonstrate how businesses can benefit by using autonomous mobile robots.

Citing a successful 2020, Hanover-based Utz Brands, Inc. announced it contributed nearly $6 million to its 401(k) profit-sharing plan this year.

Advanced Cooling Technologies (ACT) has finalized the purchase of York-based competitor, Tekgard, a custom thermal management solutions company, for an undisclosed amount of money.

PACE Resources Inc. named John D. Horn chairman of its board of directors. Horn will also continue as president and CEO of PACE.

Supply chain management and logistics solutions firm DB Schenker will lay off 206 of its employees at a Shippensburg warehouse.

Manchester Township, York County-based trade group The Manufacturers’ Association, recently moved into a new headquarters that the association says will allow it to expand the training it offers to its members.

As of 2019, Pennsylvania’s manufacturing industry accounted for 11.9% of the commonwealth’s total output, according to statistics from the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). Following the global financial crisis of 2008, the sector has been on a trajectory of consistent growth, producing $93.75 billion at the end of 2018 - up from less than $74 billion in 2009. 

Mainz, Germany-based pharmaceutical products maker SCHOTT’s only glass vial manufacturing plant for injectable drugs in the U.S. is in Lebanon County. And it has been busy.

Luxury vinyl tile maker, Parterre, is the latest to join AHF Products’ portfolio of flooring brands after the West Hempfield Township company recently acquired certain assets of the Wilmington, Massachusetts-based manufacturer.