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By Chris Buchignani According to many accounts, Happy Valley derives its monicker from the unusual economic resiliency that the region enjoyed throughout the Great Depression. This legacy lives on, according to Commissioner Mark Higgins, who invoked the story in delivering a promising report with his fellow commissioners on the state of Centre County. The Chamber […]

PRESS RELEASE STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – October 2, 2023—With an aim to expand access to affordable metal 3D printing for small-to-medium size companies and decentralize additive manufacturing, today Xact Metal™ announced the exclusive sales and service partnership with System Create Co. in Japan. “At Xact Metal, we’re establishing a new level of price and performance […]

By Greg Woodman We have found common priorities while surveying and interviewing Happy Valley CEOs and business leaders: 1) Recruiting, growing and retaining talent, and 2) reaching, landing and growing new customers. From customer summits and team retreats—popular with local companies like KCF Technologies and Energy CAP—to other strategies for driving customer relationships and celebrating […]

By Tim Kelly The Technology Center at Innovation Park, home to Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern Pennsylvania, Magnitude Instruments, and other start-ups. Photo by T. Kelly After experiencing endless frustration and months of effort attempting to acquire useful data from a home-built transient absorption spectrometer, Eric Kennehan, his former advisor John Asbury […]

By Holly Riddle In October, Greg Scott will mark two years as the president and CEO of the Chamber of Business & Industry of Centre County (CBICC). The Centre County has experience in business and higher ed, bringing a unique combination of “town and gown” insight — so when he had the chance to serve […]

Content creators, curators and writers at HappyValley Industry: HappyValleyIndustry.com and Affinity Connection are committed to strategic storytelling that creates results. We are seeking to fill various roles in content services, including content collection, content curation, writing and editing. Writers in these roles would create and write and edit content for a variety of projects (including […]