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Volvo Construction Equipment to invest $100 million in Shippensburg expansion

Volvo is relocating 220 positions from Asheville, N.C. and will begin making new product lines in Shippensburg, which could create around 400 new jobs over several years.

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Micro-Hybrid vehicle market benefiting Pennsylvania battery plant

Axion Power battery plant, located in New Castle, PA, is adding more than a dozen jobs to help produce its target of 1 million batteries, or battery equivalents, per year.

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Clarks Shoe Companies in Conewago Township to build new distribution center

This center marks the largest investment the UK company has ever made in the United States.

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GE Transportation manufacturing plant to hire more Pennsylvania workers

Due to increasing production demands, the company will hire more than 100 additional production workers.

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Check out MANTEC’s spring newsletter

MANTEC, the Industrial Resource Center serving south central PA, has published its Spring 2011 newsletter.

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Manufacturing industry helps lower national unemployment rate

The manufacturing industry added 17,000 jobs in March, while the unemployment rate dropped as the economy continues to steadily expand.

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The road ahead: Experts weight in on PA’s, midstate’s next decade

In an article published March 11, the Central Penn Business Journal asked experts to predict what changes the next 10 years would bring to PA's major economic sectors. They pointed to the manufacturing industry as one of the biggest opportunities.

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New report finds manufacturing is PA’s largest economic sector

“While Pennsylvania’s tax structure is very important, improving it won’t get rid of all the weeds stifling growth for manufacturers," DVIRC's release points out.

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Manufacturing sector shows promise

Bill Toland of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently interview Petra Mitchell, president of Catalyst Connection, on the details of our study.

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Manufacturing still driving Pennsylvania’s economy, study finds

Journalist Malia Spencer of the Pittsburgh Business Times reports on our study from a Pittsburgh angle.

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