Pittsburgh: Natural Resources & Renewable Energy Innovations

Creating a new construction division. The company has committed to invest roughly $120 million each year, on average, until 2020 to dig up and replace aging pipeline.

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.

1,000-megawatt, state-of-the-art, natural gas-fueled power generation facility.

Developing a series of hydroelectric power plants on the three rivers.

Expansion and renovation of the Smithfield Customer Care Center, creating over 100 good-paying jobs. Over the last 10 years, Columbia Gas has hired hundreds of skilled workers and invested more than $1 billion in Pennsylvania, with the majority of that investment in the Pittsburgh Region, to upgrade energy infrastructure. This work continues today.

Natural gas processing plant.

Building a cryogenic pump test stand to test cryogenic pumps and expanders for the liquefied natural gas industry.

Expanding presence in natural gas water management business.

Staff expansion. Has increased staff by 500% since 2014.

90,000-square-foot headquarters expansion.

Pittsburgh-based clean-tech startup Oriden, a power generation organization, announced its launch this week with full backing from global company Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems. It will hire up to 40 local employees.

Omnis Bailey LLC, which would take waste coal from Consol Energy’s Pennsylvania mining complex and turn it into clean carbon fuel for power plants, has secured financing for the first 25-ton per hour module.

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. The site currently employs about 200 people. The expansion is the result of a consolidation of switchgear operations by the company.

Komatsu Mining Corp will develop a 250,000 square-foot distribution center (215,000 square-foot warehouse, 35,000 square feet of office space and more than 250 parking spaces). Komatsu Mining provides equipment, systems and solutions to extract minerals.

Since 2021, Form Energy has operated a 52,000 square foot manufacturing facility located in Eighty Four, just outside of Pittsburgh. Home to its advanced manufacturing team, Form Energy’s Eighty Four facility is where the company operates a pilot manufacturing line to test its manufacturing processes and prepare for the scale up and broad commercialization of Form’s iron air battery systems.

Envinity signed a three-year lease to take 3,807 square feet of flex space in the West Shop of the complex at Keystone Commons.