In the first days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Harrisburg-based D&H Distributing fielded requests from everyone from the mayor of Boston, looking for 20,000 Chromebooks for public schools, to the head of Microsoft, in need of thousands of headsets and cameras to support telemedicine services.

It’s the news Pennsylvania’s OraSure Technologies Inc. has been waiting for. It announced today that it has received three Emergency Use Authorizations from the Federal Drug Administration for its COVID-19 rapid antigen tests.

The new branch, in Greer, South Carolina, provides office space, sales training facilities and a warehouse for custom bath, window and door products. West Shore Home said it will add dozens of jobs to the region.

Palmyra-based Philadelphia Mixing Solutions is being sold to SPX Flow for $65 million. The transaction, expected to be completed this quarter, will combine two of the top mixing equipment brands in North America.

Camp Hill-based industrial services company Harsco Corp. now generates 82% of its revenue from environmentally focused segments, the company announced in its 2020 sustainability report.

Schuylkill County-based custom fabricator and manufacturer Cardinal Systems, Inc. plans to invest nearly $9 million into expanding its Schuylkill County and Manchester Township, York County facilities.

Armstrong Flooring Inc. posted $148.9 million in net sales last quarter, a 7.2% increase from the first quarter of 2020.

Hanover-based snack food company Utz Brands plans to purchase all of the assets of tortilla chip, corn chip and pellet snack manufacturer, Festida Foods for $41 million.

D.G. Yuengling & Sons Inc. said goodbye to its 192-year-old secret family recipes Friday as they began their three day-journey to Molson Coors Fort Worth, Texas brewing facilities that will begin brewing the traditional beers for distribution in the west.

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.