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Schoolhouse Electric and Supply Co. of Portland, Ore., plans a $7 million renovation that would bring 50 jobs to Pittsburgh over three years. Founded in 2003, Schoolhouse manufactures light fixtures and home accessories.

Final investment decision made to proceed with developing ethane cracker in Potter Township.

Dura-Bond Industries purchased equipment from U.S. Steel’s idled McKeesport plant and is leasing the 317,000 SF plant from the Regional Industrial Development Corp. and hopes to begin producing tubular products primarily for the energy industry within six to nine months.

Located in Fayette Business Park, Boeing is adding on an additional 60,000 SF. Boeing is a global leader providing command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, reconnaissance and combat systems for the United States military and our allies.

Perryman will invest $50 million in two new furnaces at its California, Pa., plant, citing strong demand from the aerospace industry. The furnaces will be installed late 2018 and will create about 50 new jobs once they are fully operational in mid-2019. The furnaces will also produce titanium for customers in the medical industry and manufacturers that use the high-strength, lightweight metal to 3-D print parts and components.

Westmoreland County Industrial Development Corp. approved a purchase and sale agreement with the Elliott Group for $600,000 for the 13.8-acre Jeanette Glass property. The company proposes to build a cryogenic pump test stand on the former glass plant property. The company employs about 875 people at its U.S. headquarters along Route 130 in Jeannette.

A $60 million expansion project by EQS — a supplier of engineered, heavy metal components to customers all over the world — broke ground on a 110,000 SF facility that initially to add 25 jobs to the 700 that already exist in the company’s New Castle, Ellwood City and Wilmington Township locations.

Niagara Bottling, a maker of private label bottled water, said it will open a 456,000 SF manufacturing facility at the Findlay Industrial Park for regional distribution. The $64 million project is expected to create more than 50 jobs.

General Carbide added 100 new jobs in a major expansion over 18 months. The $14 million expansion will add 60,000 SF to the company’s main plant in Hempfield’s Carbon neighborhood. The majority of jobs created in the expansion will be for machinists, but there will be positions in the lab and engineering departments as well as some for general laborers.

The Shell Polymers Innovation Center, will also include a Center of Expertise for polyethylene as well as labs and an application hall. The facility will be about 85,000 SF. Once operational, the facility will employ 60 people broken up into three specific teams: laboratory and analytical staff, a technical services team and a technology team.

This rail products firm opened its new headquarters on the Northside for its 170 employees and plans to have about 250 people there over the next few years.

Forms + Surfaces, Inc., a manufacturer of architectural products, will expand its operations in Allegheny County, supporting the combined creation and retention of 346 full-time jobs. The company has pledged to invest $15.65 million into the project, and has committed to create at least 115 new, full-time jobs and retain 231 existing jobs over the next three years.

GE Renewable Energy plans to expand its Speers workforce by 50% over the next year. A division of Paris-based General Electric, GE Renewable plans to add 100 or more employees at the Mon Valley plant, an electrical equipment manufacturer, by the end of 2020. About 200 are currently employed at the site. The expansion is the result of a consolidation of switchgear operations by the company.

Officially launched in October 2019, closed a $1.5 million seed round and plans to build out a Zelienople headquarters with the funding. The company will lease 18,700 SF at Jackson’s Pointe Commerce Park to establish both office and manufacturing space that will open in February.

Ameri-Precision Metals Inc. announced Tuesday that it has begun work on a 250,000 SF facility on Curry Avenue, where the two-year-old company will produce cold-rolled and heat-treated high carbon steel strips.

Thar Process grew at a rate of 463.4% between 2017 and 2019 and increased revenue from $4.1 million in 2017 to $23.1 million in 2019.

Ellwood Specialty Steel Group broke ground on a $4 million distribution facility in New Wilmington. The 20,000 SF expansion is expected to be complete in April/May 2021.

Braskem completed a $10 million expansion of its U.S. Innovation and Technology Center, operating the full space of the building which it owns.

RIDC has received a $2.25 million loan from the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority to help with a possible expansion of Intervala’s footprint from 136,500 SF to about 220,000 SF at RIDC Westmoreland.

FilterBuy has entered a long-term lease for 137,000 SF of production and distribution space in New Kensington.

Tenaris invested $11 million at its Koppel melt shop for facility expansions in September 2020 and has increased that amount to $15 million to upgrade the facility’s steel bar size capabilities, add new cranes, revamp existing cranes and add a new production management system.

Stoelzle will invest $50,000,000 over the next four years in upgraded technology and employee training at the plant.

Aragra Technologies is planning to construct a 50,000 SF building at Starpointe that will eventually employ as many as 220 workers. Innovative Electronics, a subsidiary of Aragra, will move to the new manufacturing plant.

Evoqua Water Technologies will establish a new “sustainability and innovation hub” at Tech Forge in Lawrenceville. The company will be leasing nearly 18,000 SF at the tech-flex building.

*Xylem Inc. acquired Evoqua Water Technologies Corp. in May 2023.

Quality Support LLC will build a new manufacturing plant and consolidate operations in a $1.44 million dollar project. The company will construct a 10,000 SF cut room steel building and renovate four buildings.

Trulieve plans to develop a new 508,000 SF processing facility in McKeesport. The company purchased the land from RIDC for $10.37 million dollars, and the new operation is expected to employ 800 people.

Bunting Architectural Metals has purchased a 333,980 SF facility on 24.3 acres of land in New Castle, which will create 79 new jobs. Bunting will invest $16.8 million into the project over the next four years.

BCI Steel Co. is partnering with global solar company Nextracker to manufacture solar energy equipment at a former Bethlehem Steel facility in Leetsdale. The project will create upwards of 120 jobs over three phases.

Perryman Co. plans to install open forge die press at a plant in California Technology Park and additional furnaces to increase titanium melting capacity by over 60%.

Allegheny Distilling will open a new facility in Upper St. Clair, which will be renovated to support large-scale distilling technology.

Re:Build Manufacturing announced it is opening a 175,000 SF manufacturing hub that will be a future-forward facility for fabrication, manufacturing, and integration and assembly projects in high-growth, innovation-driven industries that include energy, life sciences, robotics, aerospace and more.

Eos is receiving a $398.6M federal loan to support the expansion of its groundbreaking long-duration battery technology that’s developed and manufactured here in the region.