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.

Gov. Tom Wolf will need to expand liability protections to manufacturers, small businesses and more health care providers or risk Pennsylvania businesses refusing to open for fear of frivolous COVID-19 related lawsuits, said a coalition of state associations.

West Manchester Township, York County-based machining manufacturer Weldon Solutions reopened this week following the county’s transition to the yellow phase in Pennsylvania’s three-phase reopening plan.

  Manufacturing is a life-sustaining industry.  Many of us know South Central Pennsylvania as the snack capital of the world, but it’s also home to 2,986 diverse manufacturing establishments ranging from medical equipment, plastics and metal fabricators, textiles and pharmaceuticals. Over the last two months many manufacturers have continued to provide needed components in supply chains. It’s satisfying ...

It’s a problem that has played out in other industries, Horst-Martz said, from consumer electronics to farming – but now with the coronavirus pandemic leading to the unprecedented demand for medical equipment, such as ventilators, Right to Repair has become a critical issue in the health care field.

Dentsply Sirona announced furloughed 383 employees at its York County manufacturing facilities in response to a drop in demand for dental supplies across the country, according to a WARN notice filed with the state Department of Labor & Industry.