Happy Valley is a hotspot for food-based startups

“At the time I thought it was the worst day of my life” Paul Silvis wants to have a word about failure. Silvis founded global chromatography authority Restek in 1985, and then went on to start the world’s leading high performance coating company SilcoTek in 2009, so failure may not be the first word that […]

American manufacturing is facing a monumental challenge: a shortage of skilled workers and rising demand. Jeremy Frank, founder and CEO of Happy Valley’s KCF Technologies, Inc., has some advice: achieve new levels of efficiency and resourcefulness by embracing Industry 4.0. As an Industry 4.0 hub, Happy Valley is primed and ready to solve American manufacturing’s […]

For more than 20 years, the Technology Council of Central Pennsylvania (TCCP) has been connecting its members and organizations to promote technology and fuel economic development. TCCP has five priorities: collaborate to solve strategic problems; recruit diverse talent; stay sharp with peers; grow the business; and promote the region. “Our current value and commitment to broader workforce issues […]

In a recent “Bugs without Borders” study, 89% of pest professionals report treating bed bug infestations in single-family homes, 88% report treating in apartments/condos and 67% report treating in hotels/motels. Bed bugs can live for months without a blood meal and survive temperatures from freezing to 122 degrees. They can travel home from your vacation or […]

Edward Marflak founded Schoolwires in 2000 with the mission to serve schools with a solution for managing and sharing information with students and families. Ben Franklin Technology Partners, part of Happy Valley’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, provided support that helped the company develop from fledgling educational platform to global content management system used by more than 1,700 […]

What if you could perform chemistry on the computer? That’s essentially what the ReaxFF method allows researchers to do — and it’s a tool that more than 1,600 researchers around the world have now requested access to. Developed by Adri van Duin, distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, the ReaxFF method can be used […]