WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - Output at U.S. factories unexpectedly fell in June as motor vehicle production dropped amid an unrelenting global semiconductor shortage.

Shiremanstown-based Dayton Parts, an independent heavy-duty undercarriage aftermarket component supplier, is under agreement to be sold to Dorman Products Inc. for $338 million.

The U.S. Transportation Department said Tuesday it had launched a $3 billion aviation manufacturing payroll subsidy program to pay up to half of compensation costs for up to six months.

Don Springer, founder and former president of Bloomberg, Germany-based Phoenix Contact’s U.S. subsidiary, has died.

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.

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.

Following a devastating year for the live event industry, Lititz-based set construction, design and production company ATOMIC expanded its services to include contract manufacturing and production.

When a deal to sell a York County-based manufacturer fell through, a group of employees worked together to make an offer to the company’s owners in a transaction that took only 45 days. This month, the company celebrates its 20th year as an employee owned company.

Polymer manufacturer Fenner Precision Polymers acquired an Italy-based keyless-locking device maker, the companies announced on Tuesday.

Chicago-based vehicle parts manufacturer DRiV expects to lay off 233 employees at its Manchester Township, York County distribution center by February.

The co-founder of a Westmoreland County contract manufacturing company will join the York-based business management firm Mantec as its newest president and CEO.

“The pandemic has caused manufacturers to think about different aspects of their businesses as they have tried to accommodate many personnel issues, supply chain disruptions and uncertainty in general,”

"We thought we dodged a bullet. We didn’t see the challenge ahead of us until we realized that the state was locking down everything and elective surgeries were put on hold,” said Chris Tarsa, president at C.L. Sturkey. “We got caught flat-footed when everything started to shut down.”

A recent survey of 95 south central Pennsylvania manufacturers punctuates the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on the industry.

Plant-based foods manufacturer Curation Foods will be closing its Penn Township, York County-based manufacturing facility and consolidating operations to facilities in California and Ohio.