Are you a Small Manufacturer with a BIG IDEA? Ben Franklin's innovation competition, managed by Edwards, will this year award a prize package valued at $200,000. She chatted with Keystone Edge about how the competition has evolved over the years and
This Reading company uses cutting-edge methods to grind a wide range of materials into ultra-fine particles for the manufacturing industry -- and they're growing rapidly. Since, 1998, they've gone from a two-man team to a roster of 120 employees
With the help of its new head honcho, Cambridge-Lee Industries continues to innovate and expand. They recently added a new plant that will employ 250 in Berks County.
Downtown Reading's Delux Dental Laboratories fought off the dual industry forces of outsourcing and consolidation by embracing cutting-edge technology.
The news is being selected by the community instead of old white guys sitting in a newsroom, says one BCTV citizen journalist.
The Reading-based printer hasn't stopped growing since it was founded in a basement in 2005 by a husband-and-wife team.
The Berks County seat's revival has the same swirl of dedicated, motivated change agents that the rest of Pennsylvania will need in 2012.
He worked his way from up chef to owner of a downtown Reading gastro pub, using ingredients from local farmers and strengthening Reading's bustling Latino population.
It�s been a long road for the Berks County seat, once a manufacturing powerhouse. New businesses, fresh investment and a variety of innovative ideas are finally changing perceptions and creating much promise.
The arts, entrepreneurship, academia and opportunity are alive again in Reading, where the loss of manufacturing jobs is being overcome through a variety of public and private initiatives.