On August 27, 2020, Utz Quality Foods completed a merger with special purpose acquisition firm Collier Creek and made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange four days later as the new Utz Brands, Inc. 

Pandemic-driven supply chain pain isn’t expected to go away any time soon. 

The jump from $246.3 million to $292.2 million accompanied an 8% increase in adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).

Manufacturers in Pennsylvania looking to make innovations to their operations can now apply for funding from the Manufacturing PA Innovations program. 

Pandemic-driven supply chain pain isn’t expected to go away any time soon. 

A York-based industrial firm with expertise in robotics and automation is working with the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Department of Defense to create a smart prototype warehouse that will use 5G technology to provide secure, efficient, and cost-effective movement of essential supplies. 

Dan Morgan, a snacking industry veteran with previous local experience, will join Abbottstown-based G&S Foods LLC as president effective July 12.

The Hershey Co. has again been recognized by Points of Light, the global nonprofit dedicated to volunteerism, as one of the 50 most community-minded companies in the U.S.

Construction has started on Carlisle Construction Materials’ sixth thermoplastic polyolefin manufacturing line, which will produce the commercial roofing industry’s first 16-foot-wide TPO membranes.

York-based industrial automation firm K2 Kinetics has acquired an Austin, Texas-based designer and manufacturer of case packers.

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.