After announcing layoffs last month and trying unsuccessfully to find a buyer for its operations, a Lebanon County lumber company filed for bankruptcy this month.Based
When electrical components manufacturer SESCO outgrew its Mont Alto plant in the mid-2010s, the company leased a second facility in Waynesboro.The company has operated in both buildings for a decade, according to SESCO founder, owner and president David Souders.But now, SESCO’s 87 employees are poised for a reunion.The company is buying a former TE Connectivity plant at 627 N. […]
Lancaster-based flooring maker Ecore International has purchased an Ohio-based company that specializes in playground surfacing.Based in Copley, Ohio, near Akron, Pro-Techs Surfacing LLC sells, designs and installs the surfacing. Terms of the transaction — Ecore’s second in as many months — were not disclosed.Pro-Techs, which employs 22 people, does no manufacturing. But the company’s sales and installation services complement Ecore’s […]
Hanover-based snack food company Utz Brands Inc. plans to wind down operations at a plant and warehouse in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as part of an ongoing effort to concentrate production at its larger, more efficient factories. Manufacturing at the Grand Rapids plant is slated to end by Jan. 30, followed by the end of warehouse operations on May […]
Less than a month after deciding to close a lumber operation in northwestern Pennsylvania, Weaber Inc. is consolidating operations in Lebanon County and laying off 145 workers.The lumber company is vacating a distribution center at 25 Keystone Drive in South Annville Township and shifting work to its headquarters location at 1231 Mount Wilson Road, also in […]
Lancaster-based flooring manufacturer Ecore International has acquired a firm based in New York state with operations in Franklin County.The company is HTI Recycling, a tire collection, recycling and crumb rubber manufacturing company based in Lockport.The deal also includes HTI subsidiaries D&G Heavy Equipment Leasing and Edge Rubber Recycling, which has a plant in Chambersburg.Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Why is […]
A York-area candy company has more than doubled its factory footprint after taking over a peer based in Lower Allen Township, Cumberland County.After six decades of family ownership, The Warrell Corp. and its 230,000-square-foot plant have been sold to Wolfgang Confectioners, which operates out of a150,000 square-foot facility in Loganville.Terms of the transaction, which closed last month, […]
MITER Brands, a Harrisburg-based manufacturer of doors, windows and other products, has divested a Florida-based unit that makes porch enclosures. Known as Eze-Breeze Porch Enclosures, the unit was acquired by its president, Bob Keller, in partnership with investment firm Jewell Hollow LLC and its managing partner, Zach Coopersmith. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.MITER acquired Eze-Breeze last […]
A Lebanon-area lumber company is closing an affiliate in northeastern Pennsylvania due to sluggish demand for its products.Between Aug. 25 and Sept. 8, South Annville Township-based Weaber Inc. is shuttering a facility in Titusville doing business as ChoiceWood and laying off its 46 workers, according to a notice filed with state and local officials. Titusville […]
Spring Grove-based Pixelle Specialty Solutions has revised the timeline for closing its plant in Ohio.The papermaker said yesterday it plans to cease production at the plant in Chillicothe on Aug. 10. The plant employed more than 800 people earlier this year, but it is not clear how many work there now.The company initially planned to […]
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