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Software Business, Psychology Software Tools, comes to Sharpsburg
by Mary Ann Thomas
Pittsburgh Business Times
May 27, 2010
A growing software company from Forest Hills has moved into the Sharpsburg Business Park along the 23rd Street Extension in Sharpsburg.
Pittsburgh Business Times
September 24, 2009
A Fox Chapel entrepreneur is opening a new business that converts used plastic into clean energy in Sharpsburg's former Fort Pitt Brewery, 1600 Marys Ave.
Gerald Driggs, CEO of EcoClean Burners, plans to set up shop at the former brewery building for the storage and assembly of the burner units. The operations will not create emissions or combustible hazards, according to Driggs.
The fledgling company will begin operations at the Sharpsburg site later this year and will employ about 10 workers initially, according to Driggs, who is still shopping around for a plastic processing site.
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Sharpsburg business expanding to watercraft work
by Mary Ann Thomas
The Herald
September 10, 2009
Forget the economy. The vintage car storage, detailing and automotive business keeps growing for Fort Pitt Classic Cars at 15th and Canal streets in Sharpsburg.
The fledging business established late last year in one of the former Fort Pitt Brewery buildings plans to expand operations to 907 Main St.
Owner Ron Libengood plans to call his new operations, Fort Pitt Marine and will offer boat storage, detailing and mechanical work.
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Cano built business upon early client success stories
Pittsburgh Business Times
August 3, 2009
If only it was as easy to duplicate the early success of Cima Software Corp. as it is for the copiers with which the company works to churn out copied documents.
After four years in business, Cima has become a key partner with Ricoh, the copier conglomerate, counts more than 50 reseller partners and has reached $1 million in sales without taking on debt.
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Interns provide valuable help for less money
by Mary Ann Thomas
Staff Writer
July 16, 2009
Sharpsburg Borough and the local economic development group, ARTEZ, saved money recently for much needed in-house projects.
Two interns from the Local Government Academy are spending their summer at the borough and ARTEZ working on projects that typically would have been sent to outside professional services.
In its 14th year, the Local Government Academy's Municipal Intern Program provides interns to communities from area colleges and universities.
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Regional Insights: Energizing job growth in Pittsburgh
Sunday, July 05, 2009
By Harold D. Miller
Although a lot of jobs have been lost in our region over the past year, that doesn't mean every company is reducing employment. We still have many businesses that are hiring, with the potential for even more growth in the future.
Front and center among these is the energy industry. As the population of the United States and the world continues to grow, the demand for energy also will grow. But as concern about the environmental impacts of energy increases, the demand for cleaner forms of energy will grow even faster.
The Pittsburgh Region is uniquely positioned to ride these trends into the future, regardless of what happens with congressional energy legislation, because of our diversification across both renewable and traditional energy sources.
• Wind. Our region's role in wind energy isn't limited to wind turbines on our mountaintops. For example, Converteam in O'Hara is a global leader in electrical systems for wind energy. One of the world's leading wind energy companies, Gamesa, makes turbine blades in Ebensburg, Cambria County.
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United States DoD contracts for June 19, 2009
Converteam, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa., is being awarded a $22,984,640 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-4203) for the DDG 1000 Baseline Tactical High Voltage Power Subsystem (HVPS) for use in the Navy’s integrated power system land based test site. The DDG 1000 HVPS includes an advanced induction motor, motor drive, harmonic filters and resistors for dynamic braking and neutral grounding. The HVPS distributes electrical power for the ship’s turbine-generators to the various electrical loads and also provides for electric propulsion. These components will meet the same specification established by the DDG 1000 shipyards for the lead ships installation. Work will be performed in Pittsburgh, Pa., and is expected to be completed by March 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., is the contracting activity.
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Kelman Bottles to supply glass containers for Labatt Breweries of Canada
by Tim Schooley
Pittsburgh Business Times
June 3, 2009
Kelman Bottles, LLC has reached agreement to supply glass containers to Labatt Breweries of Canada, a division of global conglomerate Anheuser-Busch InBev.
Kelman, based near Pittsburgh in Glenshaw, will supply Labatt with its annual glass container requirements for its Brava brand in Canada. Brava is a Mexican-style beer that Labatt acquired in 2007.
Kelman, a privately held company that operates what was formerly known as the Glenshaw Glass Company, described the approval process for Labatt as intensive, taking nearly two years.
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$1.5M to aid technology initiatives at 8 Western Pennsylvania firms
By The Tribune-Review Friday
May 29, 2009
Eight local technology companies and one proposal out of Carnegie Mellon University will share $1.5 million from The Technology Collaborative to help get their ideas going.Their ideas are in industries ranging from energy to toys. CMU's computer service department, for example, is developing ways to maximize the performance of computer servers -- which consume 10 times more power than a decade ago -- while keeping down energy costs. An advisory board representing 66 companies and five universities chose the grant recipients for the North Side-based organization's latest round of funding, announced Thursday.
Other Pittsburgh area companies receiving money are:
• Acutronic USA Inc. and Virtus Advanced Sensors, working jointly on sensors for guidance test systems for the auto, defense and other industries.
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Grant could benefit brownfield development
by Mary Ann Thomas
Staff Writer
May 21, 2009
The federal Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $900,000 grant to a North Shore economic group for redevelopment projects in 16 communities from Coraopolis to Freeport. Communities and local development groups with brownfield projects in the running for the money are:
- The ARTEZ (Allegheny River Towns Enterprise Zone) covering Millvale, Shaler, Etna, Sharpsburg, Aspinwall and Blawnox
- The ORTEZ (Ohio River Towns Enterprise Zone) covering Coraopolis, Neville Township, Stowe Township and McKees Rocks.
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American Thermoplastic Company Wins Five Awards in Binding Industry Competition
May 06, 2009 American Thermoplastic Company, Pittsburgh, PA, received five awards in the 2009 Binding Industries Association Product of Excellence competition, including two of the top awards for both multi-color screen-printing and digital printing of loose-leaf products. American Thermoplastic Company (ATC) won the Product of Excellence Award and the Award of Recognition for digital printing of plastic loose-leaf products. ATC swept the awards for multi-color screen-printing in the loose-leaf products category, taking the Product of Excellence, Award of Recognition and Certificate of Merit honors.
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$12 million more in arena contracts awarded
Thursday, April 02, 2009
By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
The city-Allegheny County Sports & Exhibition Authority awarded another $12.4 million in contracts today related to the construction of the new arena.
The largest contract, at $6.9 million, went to a joint venture of H-MAK Inc. and Arriba Construction for building concession space and the procurement and installation of food service equipment. Other contracts were awarded for millwork and casework, overhead doors and loading dock equipment, painting and wall coverings, and curtains and window treatments. >>more>>
Things going smoothly for local vodka
By Kim Leonard
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
State liquor stores in the Philadelphia area and retailers in parts of Ohio have begun to stock Boyd & Blair Potato Vodka -- the brand distilled and bottled in Shaler, and introduced locally just six months ago.
Prentiss Orr said he and partner Barry Young are working to build wider demand for their vodka, after early sales tallied up at more than double their expectations.
"We thought we'd be doing pretty good if we sold 1,000 cases before Christmas. We sold 2,300 cases before Christmas," Orr said.
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Benshaw expands into O'Hara warehouse
Pittsburgh Business Times - by Ben Semmes
Friday, January 9, 2009
A Glenshaw-based manufacturer is expanding its local operation in a long, empty warehouse at the RIDC park in O’Hara Township.
Benshaw, a maker of advanced controls for factories and other users, will move nearly 300 employees into 180,000 square feet at the 330,000-square-foot former Eckerd Corp. at 615 Alpha Dr., said Bill Rudolph, principal with Downtown-based McKnight Realty Partners, which acquired the property in October.
Benshaw’s commitment, in the form of a 10-year lease with the option to expand, will fill most of the remaining space in the building, Rudolph said. >>more>>
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Waters Acquires Thar Instruments; Establishes "Green" Separation Science Leadership and Expands Chromatography Application Range
MILFORD, Mass., Feb 02, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today announced it has acquired all of the remaining outstanding capital stock of privately held Pittsburgh-based Thar Instruments, Inc., the world's largest supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) manufacturer, for an undisclosed amount. Waters(R) had previously made an equity investment in Thar in June 2007. Current annual revenues of Thar are approximately $18 million and the acquisition is estimated to be neutral to Waters 2009 earnings.
Considered a leading 'green' analytical and purification technology, Thar's SFC and extraction systems are used to separate, isolate and quantify chemical compounds. The principles of SFC are similar to those of liquid chromatography; however SFC typically uses carbon dioxide as the main mobile phase. Carbon dioxide offers environmental and cost benefits compared to liquid chromatography solvents.
"By combining Thar's advanced SFC instrumentation with Waters chromatography expertise, Waters is committed to bringing the benefits of SFC to more laboratories for analytical and purification applications worldwide," said Dr. Rohit Khanna, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing for Waters Division.
For more information go to Thar Instruments
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