READING, Pa.- The governor’s administration visited Reading to celebrate the expansion of an engineering plastics company.<\/p>\n
“We’ve seen real progress here in Reading these last few years,” says PA Secretary of Community and Economic Development Rick Siger.<\/p>\n
He attended an event celebrating Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Material’s major expansion project.<\/p>\n
“When a company like this expands, it’s a real boost to the local economy,” says Siger. “Not just for the folks that work here, but the indirect and induced benefits all across our community. It sends a signal that Pennsylvania continues to be open for business.”<\/p>\n
The company is investing more than $20 million into the community and creating over 40 new jobs. They’re hoping the building currently under construction will be operational by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n
“Mitsubishi acquired the company about ten years ago and we found workforce capabilities and the opportunities in Pennsylvania are very exciting and so as we looked to expand our U-S footprint, this was a natural choice,” says president, Dan Barish.<\/p>\n
He says the expansion will allow the company to better serve customers globally…<\/p>\n
“A key element of this investment is creating a center of excellence for extrusion of our general and advanced engineer plastics,” says Barish.<\/p>\n
“The custom components that are made here are used in a really broad range of industries from aerospace to automotive to medical and electronics,” says Siger.<\/p>\n
The jobs created will range from engineering to operations and technicians.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa.- The governor’s administration visited Reading to celebrate the expansion of an engineering plastics company. “We’ve seen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[102746,59547,12237,2127,2594,102745,37571,539,4957,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-238779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-community-and-economic-development","tag-dced-secretary","tag-engineering","tag-expansion","tag-jobs","tag-mitsubishi-chemical-advanced-material","tag-operations","tag-pa","tag-plastics","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}