Harry Mahler has always been passionate about the environment and seeking eco-friendly solutions to existing problems. To help address the problem of discarded mattresses being thrown into landfills, he and his wife Sarah recently opened No Badger Mattress in York, which sells eco-friendly mattresses and accepts old ones for recycling.

Ohio-based Carter Lumber, one of the nation's leading building products suppliers, will open a manufacturing facility near Hanover in York County.

PennAir CEO Cheryl Rhein is stepping down after nine years of leadership and passing the baton to her son-in-law, Seth Bray, who has been the company’s COO for the last four years.

Online grocery sales are expected to fuel more cold storage growth in the U.S., but food service distributors also are seeing a need to expand their facilities.

Unwillingness to sacrifice healthy food for fast food after the birth of her daughter, Julie Ndjee was inspired to begin experimenting with making vegetable-based sauces in the early 2000s, an experiment that has grown into her York-based business Neilly’s Foods, which sells its products up and down the East Coast and into Texas.

Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology is receiving a state grant of $195,000 to expand its short-term training programs for adults.

Two Cumberland County hop farms have cropped up recently hoping to tap ongoing craft-beer growth in Pennsylvania.

As the trade war continues with China, observers in Central Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley hope the latest stalemate might budge if and when President Donald Trump meets with Chinese leaders at the international G-20 conference in late June and agree that both countries can resolve their disputes sooner rather than later.

A new variety of chocolate called ruby chocolate is making its way to the U.S., and a Lancaster distributor will be among the first to sell it to chocolatiers.

If yours is like many of the small businesses I’ve studied, the price you quote for your products or services is determined by a simple formula, based on your estimated costs. Feed in your costs and your desired gross margin and presto, out comes the price. There’s just one problem: price has nothing to do with cost.

The strong economy has been making it difficult for businesses that need qualified and skilled technical workers. And while some established workforce initiatives with a long-range focus are paying off, other efforts are underway to match workers’ skills with specific jobs in the shorter term, several observers said in recent interviews.

Massachusetts-based Rand-Whitney Container is buying corrugated products maker Specialty Finance and Consulting Corp. in Windsor Township, York County, for an undisclosed sum. The sale will result in 220 layoffs, according to a notice sent to the state.

Stoltzfus Meats in Leacock Township, Lancaster County finished installing a solar grid on the roof of its production facility this month.

The Fortune 500 is out and a number of companies in Central Pennsylvania and the Greater Lehigh Valley have made the cut.

Wood flooring manufacturer AHF Products expects to close on a deal next month with a Texas-based competitor.