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Prentiss Orr and Barry Young's Pennsylvania Pure Distilleries bring first vodka to market
Pittsburgh Business Times - by Tim Schooley
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
After three years, Prentiss Orr and Barry Young are ready to see how far an inspiration, a crop of potatoes and their new distillery will take them.
Their Glenshaw-based Pennsylvania Pure Distilleries saw its new potato vodka brand, Boyd & Blair, stocked on shelves at Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board stores this week, bringing to the general public the opportunity to buy locally-made vodka for the first time in decades. >>more>>
Cleaning crews find cracks in Capitol walls
Charleston Daily Mail
Monday August 4, 2008 
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- State officials knew they had a massive cleaning job on their hands. What they didn't realize about the limestone exterior of the main Capitol Building was that repairs were needed as well. "It's been more of a restoration project," said Diane Holley, spokeswoman for the state Department of Administration. An architecture and engineering firm discovered cracks and open joints in the limestone that were causing water damage inside the building. Holley said weather caused much of the damage to the structure, which was completed in 1932. It turned out to be a $3.2 million job, just one of many in a broad, five-year plan to restore and update the Capitol Complex. Crews from Graciano Corp. of Pittsburgh in April began to repair and clean the main Capitol building's exterior, including ornamental features, windows and doorways.
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Business School: 'Iron man' wears many hats
Friday, May 23, 2008
By Bill Toland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
It's OK if you think the guy looks like a punk guitarist, with his scouring pad beard, mussed-up hair and tattooed extremities. Because, having played in a couple of local bands (you never heard of Shay's Rebellion? Choke City?), Peter Lambert is, in fact, a bit of a punk guitarist. But it's not his best instrument -- for a virtuoso heavy-metal performance, you ought to see him rock out with a hammer and anvil.
He's a rock star of a blacksmith, so much as that sort of thing is possible, designing and fabricating high-end wine cellars, fireplace screens, cocktail tables for the rich and famous, or in many cases the merely rich. He and his team of metal workers built the ubiquitous "three rivers" bike racks that can be seen all over the city, the decorative metal grapevines behind the bar at Sonoma Grille, the boat racks on the North Shore riverfront. >>more>>
Friday, June 13, 2008
Pittsburgh-area, family-owned pharmacy stays open despite flood
Pittsburgh Business Times - by Erin Lawley
When the flood waters rose in Millvale in September 2004, Jennifer Cohen had to act quickly to keep her business afloat. Cohen is the third-generation owner of Lincoln Pharmacy, a family business started in 1928. The remnants of Hurricane Ivan rushed into her North Avenue building, wiping out the pharmacy's entire drug inventory. "Our store was devastated, totally devastated. The water probably came up in our store eight feet," she said. >>more>>
Matthews International acquires German firm
Pittsburgh Business Times
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Pittsburgh-based Matthews International Corp. Thursday announced that it has closed on its majority acquisition of a German pre-press service provider.
The sale, initially announced in February, gives Matthews a 78 percent ownership stake in Saueressig GmbH & Co, based in Vreden, Germany, with other manufacturing facilities in Germany, Poland and England.
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A chemical fix for Hangar One
by Daniel DeBolt
Mountain View Voice Staff
January 21, 2008
Stephen Mitchell believes he may be able to save Hangar One with his company's chemical treatment process, and preservationists are anxious to know if it will work.
Mitchell's Pittsburgh-based firm, Amstar Envirochem Inc., is the only company in the U.S. that is permitted by the EPA to chemically neutralize the PCBs, which are embedded in the siding of the historic hangar...
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Harmarville Company To Develop Biodiesel Fuel
Jan 14, 2008
KDKA
Harmarville (KDKA)-- A Company in Harmarville received a grant to develop a more efficient way to make fuel from alternative sources. Thar Technologies got a federal grant for environmentally-friendly biodiesel production on Monday.
Biodiesel production has its advantages. It makes the country less dependent on foreign oil, but it has its disadvantages too. It has relied on hazardous pollutants to process alternative fuels.
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Candy Manufacturer Receives State Financing Package
Tsudis Chocolate Company has expanded its O’Hara Township operation at 610 Alpha Drive, surpassing its commitment to the commonwealth to create 55 jobs by 2009. The family-owned chocolate candy manufacturer has created 65 full-time positions this year as part of its $2.2 million manufacturing expansion, which includes the purchase of new equipment. Tsudis is also retaining 35 existing employees. Allegheny County Economic Development worked with Tsudis Chocolate Co. to secure a $689,750 financial package offer from DCED that includes a $500,000 loan through the machinery and equipment loan fund, a $55,000 opportunity grant, $24,750 in customized job training funds and $110,000 in job creation tax credits.
MEDRAD’s O’Hara Plant Recognized
The MEDRAD Heilman Center electro-mechanical manufacturing plant, located in OHara Township, Pa. has been selected as a 2007 IndustryWeek magazine “Best Plant” award winner. This award is issued annually to plants that are on the leading edge of efforts to increase competitiveness, enhance customer satisfaction and create stimulating and rewarding work environments. For more information: http://www.medrad.com/newsroom/display-press-release.html?PRid=216
Vodka Distillery receives start-up assistance
The Progress Fund and the Commonwealth have provided a $200,000 Small Business First/agriculture loan to Pennsylvania Pure Distilleries LLC to buy equipment for distilling, bottling and packaging potato vodka. The small plant will be constructed along Route 8 in the Glenshaw Glass facility. Pennsylvania pure vodka should be ready for distribution this summer.
Thar Technologies Receives Federal Grant to Improve Biodiesel Fuel Efficiencies
Thar Technologies, a provider of Environmentally friendly supercritical fluid solutions to the pharmaceutical, foods, chemicals and electronics industries with facilities in RIDC Park in O’Hara and on William Pitt Way in Harmarville received a $2 million Advanced Technology Program grant. The grant will be used to develop and perfect a biodiesel fuel production technology. Thar Technologies proposes to use its high pressure processing technique to produce biodiesel without using hexane, a hazardous air pollutant.
Release Date: 8/1/07
CURTISS-WRIGHT ACQUIRES BENSHAW ADVANCED CONTROLS & DRIVES
Expands Leadership in Electronic Motor Controls and Protection Technology
ROSELAND, N.J. – Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW) announced today that it has acquired the stock of Benshaw Advanced Controls & Drives, of Pittsburgh, PA, for approximately $102 million in cash. Benshaw is a market leader in the design, development and manufacture of mission critical motor control and protection product solutions for leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and industrial customers. The business will become part of Curtiss-Wright's Flow Control segment.
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