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2 — Business Indiana, Friday, January 23, 2015
Inside
While gas well drilling appears to be slowing down
in Indiana County, jobs that support the
industry are holding steady.
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Three area men who are passionate about
brewing beer are launching a company with
plans to bottle and sell their suds.
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Find a piece of local history at Roser Enterprises.
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With a recent acquisition, Quintech Electronics
continues to see strong growth.
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The owners of Diamond Drugs hope a recent
expansion of its facility will help its pharmaceutical
packaging business grow significantly.
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While high-density housing units continue to
operate at near-capacity in Indiana, landlords
are having a hard time filling smaller rentals.
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County economic development leaders see good
things on the horizon, and they hope the
Windy Ridge development is the key.
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Chamber looks to year ahead
By GREG SIPOS
Chamber of commerce chairman
A
s the Indiana County
Chamber of Commerce looks ahead to
2015, I am confident the
coming year will be one of
great successes for Indiana
County. Several projects
and new developments,
through the hard work and
service of many in years
past, will come to fruition
this year.
I am pleased to take the
reins as the new chairman
of the chamber’s board of
directors. However, the
shoes I have to fill left by
outgoing chairman Bob
Kane are large.
Under Bob’s tenure in the
past two years, the chamber made significant
strides to improve,
strengthen and grow. His
dedicated service, effort
and diligent commitment
to the chamber and to Indiana County have made a
tremendous difference
moving forward. Thank
you, Bob, for your outstanding leadership and
passion for our community.
Looking back over the
past year, here are just few
of the achievements that
occurred within the chamber and business community:
• Creation of the Business Hall of Fame
GREG SIPOS
• Creation of the Center
for Internship
• The addition of 89 new
chamber members
• The addition of several
new member events, including Brains and Grains
and Chamber Check-ins
• The creation of a new
Young Professionals Organization
• A Corridors of Opportunity event with the Pittsburgh Business Times
• The return of the KDKA
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County Development Corporation.
The video can be seen at
the chamber’s new
YouTube channel,
www.youtube.com/indiana
countychamber.com.
The year concluded with
one of our best chamber
annual membership luncheons to date. More than
500 people attended the
event Dec. 5 at the Kovalchick Convention and
Athletic Complex. This
year’s guest speaker was
Maxwell King, president
and CEO of the Pittsburgh
Foundation.
King gave a heartfelt
speech about the importance of community and
the unique character qualities in people that can only
be found in our western
Pennsylvania region.
During the luncheon we
also acknowledged the career contributions to Indiana County from retiring
state representative and
former Speaker of the
House Sam Smith.
In addition, we announced the first class of
inductees into the chamber’s new Business Hall of
Fame.
The formal induction
ceremony will occur this
summer. The Hall itself will
be housed at the Kovalchick Complex.
The luncheon was a
spectacular showcase for
the chamber and Indiana
County. The 2015 luncheon
is scheduled for Dec. 4 at
the KCAC.
Now, as we look ahead to
the coming year — the
103rd for the Indiana
County chamber — many
new initiatives, products
and services are already
underway. Some of the new
efforts include:
• Creating and distributing membership cards to
all members.
• Rolling out a more extensive member-to-member discount program.
• Continuing to improve
our website.
We realize many chamber members have not fully
utilized the capabilities of
the website. Call for any assistance you need related
to the website or any member benefit.
• Conducting the first
Business Hall of Fame induction dinner.
• Creating more member
functions for networking,
education and business-tobusiness connections.
• Developing television
public service announcements to market our member businesses and Indiana
County.
• Placing member promo
videos on the chamber
website and on YouTube.
• Continuing to grow a
strong regional presence
for Indiana County
through our marketing initiatives.
The chamber will continue to work with the Indiana
County Center for Economic Operations and the
Indiana County Development Corporation to market and promote Indiana
County toward the ultimate goals of job creation
and improved quality of
life.
Additional pad-ready development sites are coming
and we hope to hear major
announcements in the year
at the Route 119 Business
Park in Coral-Graceton and
the Windy Ridge Business
and Technology Park near
the Route 422 and Route
286 interchange.
If you aren’t a chamber
member, join now. New in
2015, we are offering a
first-year introductory rate
of just $199.
You can enjoy the full
benefits of chamber membership while helping us to
enhance and grow Indiana
County.
Visit the chamber’s website, www.indianacounty
chamber.com, to join
today.
And be sure to attend the
chamber’s 2015 Business
Expo on Jan. 31 from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Indiana Mall.
We truly appreciate your
support.
Business Indiana, Friday, January 23, 2015 — 3
Drilling on decline, but support jobs thriving
You don’t have to drive far in Indiana County
to see a natural gas well. That’s because there
are more than 16,000 of them in the county. But
in the past few years, drilling activity has slowed
dramatically, a situation being watched closely
by “gas patch” workers and the owners and
employees of the many drilling support and
service companies in Indiana County.
Leaders of two trade associations for the gas and oil
industry recently discussed
the drilling slowdown, and
gave some projections about
when things may start to
turn around.
L
ou D’Amico, president
and executive director of
the Pennsylvania Independent Oil and Gas Association, said the reason there is
so little drilling activity in Indiana County now is natural
gas prices.
“Frankly, I don’t see a lot of
increase for quite a while. …
I would say probably at least
five years,” D’Amico said.
In 2008, prices for natural
gas were about $14 per 1,000
cubic feet. Prices in December were less than $4.
The price has plunged in
part because there is a
tremendous oversupply of
natural gas.
“The problem in Indiana
County is the conventional
operations (shallow wells)
are being hit the hardest,
and that’s 99 percent of the
drilling in Indiana County,”
D’Amico said. “And it just
doesn’t make economic
sense to drill at this point.”
Some of the drilling activity has been migrating west
into Ohio, in part because
much of the natural gas
there is “liquids-rich” in
ethane, pentane, butane and
propane, but also because
the business climate is better
there than in Pennsylvania,
D’Amico said. But Indiana
County remains a center for
companies supporting the
drilling industry. Many of
those companies are focused on conventional shallow well drilling but D’Amico
doesn’t anticipate those support firms will migrate west,
too.
“I don’t see that moving is
going to help them much.
Unfortunately, I think they’re
going to be victims of these
low prices for quite some
time,” he said.
Another problem is that
the
infrastructure
—
pipelines and compressor
stations — needed to move
natural gas to markets is far
behind where it should be,
By RANDY WELLS
according to D’Amico.
“We have somewhere in
the vicinity of 2,000 wells in
Pennsylvania that have yet
to be turned on line —
they’ve been drilled and
completed and are not on
production yet because
there is simply not sufficient
pipeline capacity to get it
out,” D’Amico said. “We
think that will probably
change around 2017. That’s
the good news. The bad
news is, until we create a far
larger demand for natural
gas in this country, that
won’t necessarily help us. We
need to get gas into New
England obviously. That’s a
huge market up there that’s
definitely undersold. We just
don’t have … sufficient
pipeline capacity to get the
gas to New England.”
It would also help if more
residents converted their
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gas and if storage facilities
for natural gas were expanded, he said.
PIOGA has taken a proactive step to address the
oversupply situation.
“We have hired a full-time
person just to work on natural gas market development,”
D’Amico
said.
“PIOGA is the only state association in the U.S., to my
knowledge, that has done
that. We see that as a hugely
important part of business
and something that we
need to be focusing on.”
First and foremost among
potential new markets for
natural gas is the electricity-generating industry.
“That’s going to be, I
think, the largest market in
the immediate future, in
the next half a decade,”
D’Amico said.
He predicts there will also
eventually be more of a demand for natural gas as
some manufacturing returns to America from Europe and to Pennsylvania
from southern states.
Using natural gas to
power vehicles could also
be a large part of new markets when some infrastructure issues are resolved.
“We still don’t have
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enough refueling facilities
in our state” for natural
gas-powered vehicles, he
said. “But where it’s happening it’s making a lot of
sense,” for example, to
power local delivery trucks
and transit buses that return daily to a home refueling point.
“One of the biggest challenges we look at right now
is, frankly, from government,” D’Amico continued.
“We have been hammered
as an industry by ever-increasing regulatory costs
and now we have a new administration coming in
swearing the best way to
balance their budgets and
cure all the problems
they’ve created over the last
five or six decades is by taxing us. The dollars aren’t
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(Tom) Wolf that there’s a
billion dollars he’s going to
collect. Well, I don’t know
where he’s going to find a
billion dollars or anywhere
near that out of this industry.”
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ministration can obtain
from the natural gas
drilling industry.
“And that will be short
term because when that
happens, if it happens,
you’re going to see a drastic
decrease in activity in
Pennsylvania,” and a loss of
thousands of jobs, not only
as drilling companies move
west but also from layoffs
in supporting industries
and gas stations, convenience stores, restaurants
and motels.
“All those kinds of businesses are going to suffer if
this industry has a major
slowdown,” he said.
D
ave Spigelmyer, president of the Marcellus
Shale Coalition, agrees
the current slowdown in
drilling is due to the supply
and price of gas.
“In 2008, we peaked at
producing 182 billion cubic
feet in Pennsylvania, about
one-quarter of Pennsylvania’s natural gas supply.
Today we’ll produce 16 bcf
a day … which is 20 percent
of America’s natural gas
supplies,” Spigelmyer said.
“Pennsylvania has quickly
become a leader in natural
gas supply for the U.S. …
We do have a glut of natural
gas in the market, and
frankly, it’s a huge opportunity for us to focus on
building demand here,” he
said.
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“THAT’S AN area of focus for us, to try to get
new infrastructure built, to be able to not only
move gas to consuming regions but also to build
market here in the commonwealth .”
Dave Spigelmyer,
president of the Marcellus Shale Coalition
Many of the things consumers use daily — steel,
glass, plastics, chemicals,
fertilizer, pharmaceuticals
and electricity — are all
produced through the use
of natural gas, he said.
And he agrees that
pipeline infrastructure is
lagging.
“That’s an area of focus for
us, to try to get new infrastructure built, to be able to
not only move gas to consuming regions but also to
build market here in the
commonwealth for new
manufacturing and new
commercial opportunities
for affordable energy,” he
said.
“It’s rewarding that we’re
going into the winter of
2014-15 with natural gas
prices half of where they
were in 2008,” Spigelmyer
said. “Consumers across
Pennsylvania and our
country are enjoying much
more affordable energy as a
result of shale being developed broadly … across our
country. That’s also creating enormous opportunities for manufacturing.”
Compared to many foreign
countries, “We have much
more affordable energy
now that provides us an opportunity, hopefully, to return manufacturing not
only to Pennsylvania but to
the U.S.”
But, he added, the industry faces challenges in the
commonwealth.
“First of all, we need to
make sure that Pennsylvania retains a position as a
competitive place to park
capital,” where exploration
and production companies
are willing to invest, he
said. “That will be critical
for Pennsylvania to be a
leader in natural gas development long-term.
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sylvania where shale has
been developed,” he said.
The impact fee is paid to
the state by drillers of unconventional natural gas
wells.
Through a complex formula, some of the fee
money is retained and used
by the state and some is
distributed to counties and
municipalities.
Indiana County and its
municipalities have received about $2.3 million in
impact fee money.
“Everyone’s talking about
… a need to do a severance
tax,” Spigelmyer continued.
“I would tell you that we
need to get that competitive equation right. Our
neighbor to the west in
Ohio is certainly ramping
up development. They …
don’t have a large severance
tax on the books. In fact,
our impact fee is about a 2
percent higher tax levy than
their severance tax. … We
raise $60 million more a
year than the West Virginia
severance tax raises. So
when folks say the industry
is not paying its fair share,
we pay the same taxes that
every other business pays.”
He predicts Indiana
County’s key role in the
drilling industry will continue to be as a center for
drilling support companies.
“There have been a ton of
jobs developed through a
By RANDY WELLS
[email protected]
James Martini, an economist with the Pennsylvania
Department of Labor and Industry, said that, according to first-quarter data for each year, drilling industry
employment in Pennsylvania increased from 2008 to
2012.
For the Tri-County Workforce Investment Area (Indiana, Butler and Armstrong counties), drilling industry employment peaked at a little more than 3,400 in
first-quarter 2012, dropped to about 3,100 in firstquarter 2013 and was just under 3,300 in the first
quarter of 2014.
L&I economists do not yet have the data on what
has happened to the employment numbers since
April 2014.
Martini said the core activities used in the data
comparisons include actual well-drilling jobs and
supporting activities such as site preparation jobs.
The numbers are open to some interpretation, Martini said, because companies sometimes get more efficient at what they do and need fewer workers.
“So there could be more economic activity with the
same amount of people,” he said.
number of the companies
that are active in your region and they’ll continue to
grow as long as we continue to be an attractive place
to grow this business,” he
said. “That’s where the real
opportunities are. I don’t
see, in the next year or so,
Indiana County receiving a
large chunk of capital for
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from 2012 in terms of the
number of rigs in operation, the state has continued to grow production. In
December there were 78
rigs active in Pennsylvania,
down from almost 140 in
2012. “But we’ve actually
increased rig count over the
last two years or so,” in part
by focusing on high-value
gas, he said.
“There are wonderful opportunities that are budding as a result of shale,”
Spigelmyer said. “I think
we’re still very foundational
in the development of the
Marcellus. The Department
of Labor has done analysis
on the number of Pennsylvanians now working either
directly in this industry or
supporting this industry,
and there’s over 230,000
Pennsylvanians engaged
there. … I think the opportunities are enormous.
“I think it’s fair to say that
Pennsylvania is going to be
a leader in natural gas supply for generations to
come, not just decades to
come. I’m very confident
that what we’ve found here
is that special.”
Spigelmyer said he often
hears that the gas drilling
industry is made up of “outof-staters.”
“Around my board table
nearly everyone is a Pennsylvanian,” and most of
them enjoy recreation in
the outdoors, he said. “Our
focus is to make sure this
gets done … with rigor to
the rules in Pennsylvania.
… Pennsylvania’s regulatory framework is one of the
most rigorous in the country for oil and gas development.”
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with fresh, locally produced brew, three area residents are in the stages of
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For Jared Herman, Erich
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a business but we really
liked the idea of the business not just being anything
that would just get us to
business quicker, but actually doing something that
we loved to do, which was
brew beer,” Walls said. “It
seemed like a natural fit.”
So the trio decided in August 2013 to “dive in,” Herman said, and formed Levity Brewing, which operates
out of McKelvy’s garage in
Indiana. They purchased
the necessary equipment
and started “tinkering and
building different things to
outfit” their setup, Herman
said.
Their operation still technically is homebrewing, but
on more of a high-end scale
— a “pretty elaborate
setup,” Herman said.
“We knew from the beginning that we wanted to buy
a system that would enable
us to start brewing like pros
on a really small scale,”
McKelvy said. “That’s why
we invested money in brewing it and kegging equipment, so we can really learn
the craft itself.”
“We are still homebrewers
that are about to go pro,” he
added.
Ultimately, their plan is to
provide local people with a
local product.
“That’s the idea: Brew lots
and lots of beer in Indiana.
We love Indiana, we want to
stay local,” McKelvy said.
“It seems like a matter of
time before someone would
move one of these (microbreweries) in,” Herman
added. “It should be Indiana folks brewing for Indiana folks.”
Herman said he told Walls
and McKelvy, “Somebody
from Pittsburgh is going to
come here and build one of
these.”
Herman,
Walls
and
McKelvy can’t yet operate
Levity Brewing as a business — they don’t have the
licenses to sell their product
— but they hope to be operating by June, McKelvy said.
They gained visibility in
the community by serving
at last year’s Oktoberfest in
downtown Indiana, offering
samples to potential customers.
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the table, and it’s just as fun
to pour beer for people and
watch them enjoy it,” Herman said.
They also have partnered
with a friend who operates
Trade for Freedom, a social
business that sells goods to
help provide freedom to
men, women and children
from exploitation.
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we’re very open to doing,”
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would be donated.”
Currently, Herman, Walls
and McKelvy usually brew
only about 10 gallons at a
time, though they could do
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said, “but we purchased a
10-barrel system, so we’ll be
able to make 20 times what
we could make here.” So far,
they’ve developed 24 different recipes, 13 of them since
July, including saisons (a
type of pale ale), IPAs and
stouts. They plan to refine
those down to a top 10 list.
Herman, who tries to
“keep my finger on the pulse
of what’s going on in craft
beer,” said their ginger saison is probably going to be,
“for sure, a flagship.”
“Last year was the summer
of saison. I tend to think that
that’s going to continue, but
I ... think we’re going to see a
lot more spiced beers, and I
think ginger is going to be
one of the very popular
spices used in brewing,” he
said.
They also have a stout that
has judged very well in competitions, Herman said, and
they hope to have that always available. Other beers
in the works are a brown ale
and a smoked licorice
porter.
Their IPA, “Confliction,” in
November won a bronze
award at the 2014 Butler
Homebrew BASH, organized by the Butler Area Society of Homebrewers. Herman said they plan to have it
available all the time as well.
Right now, the men are in
the process of finding space
where they will be able to
operate on a commercial
level.
“Our plan and what we’re
working at right now, is to
find a location to lease, have
our equipment delivered
there, have a real, live brewing operation where we’re
putting it into kegs and serving pints, putting it in bottles, and eventually a canning line,” McKelvy said.
“We’re really shooting to
go big with the microbrewery,” he said.
The three are looking at
having a tap room “where
people can come sample
and have a pint, and pick up
beer to take home,” Walls
said, adding that they hope
to offer a range of varieties of
beer “that’s going to meet
everyone’s palate.” They also
plan to offer wines from
local vineyards.
“It should be kind of a cool
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some live music every now
and then, he said.
“It’s going to be unique in
the way, too, that it’s going to
bring something to the people of Indiana that they’ve
never had locally here before,” Walls said.
He said it’s hard to say how
the interior décor is going to
end up, but they’re looking
at it being a “cool, rustic,
possibly hip, trendy.”
“It is about the experience,
not only for the people who
enjoy craft beer to come in
and try something different,
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going to be unique in the
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enjoy once a month, once a
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“We want to be a really fun
place for Indiana folks to
hang out, get great beer,”
McKelvy said.
And fun, literally, is in their
name.
“Levity means ‘lighthearted,’ ‘enjoyment,’ ‘humorous,
in a sense,’” McKelvy said.
“We thought about this a lot
— what are you doing when
you typically are drinking a
beer? Often you’re with
friends, sitting around the
kitchen table or at a restaurant or at a bar, and you’re
enjoying everybody’s company and enjoying fun conversation. We’re going for
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“And the community aspects of it, too,” Walls said.
“We’re pretty lighthearted
guys,” Herman said. “There’s
things, I think, I say that
probably push the boundaries, but they usually bring
people some sense of joy, I
hope. … Beer does that too.
“It lightens people’s mood,
and it opens people up to
communicating. And I think
humor does that.”
“It’s kind of disarming and
allows people to connect,”
McKelvy said.
One thing they are very serious about, however, is the
quality of their product, as
their slogan attests: “Serious
beer for the light at heart.”
The other is the business
end of things.
“We’ve been really serious
about rigorously evaluating
the business idea, not just …
running into this with our
eyes closed,” McKelvy said.
They’ve spent a lot of time
with the Small Business Development Center at Indiana
University of Pennsylvania,
testing their idea, writing a
business plan and “really
challenging our assumptions about what we think it
could be and how it’s actually going to work.”
“So we’re taking a realistic
approach to it; we don’t want
to just rush into it and find
ourselves in a really bad situation down the road,”
McKelvy said.
“It’s been a sober, serious consideration, but we’re convinced that this is a great business opportunity, and it’s going
to do great, and we’re going to really thrive in Indiana. We’re
excited about it.”
They have also gotten tips and pointers along the way from
the Indiana Homebrewers Club, to ensure they were going
about their endeavor the right way.
“Those guys have a wealth of knowledge, and they are
brewing good beer,” Walls said. “We appreciate those guys.
“OUR PLAN and what we’re working at
right now, is to find a location to lease,
have our equipment delivered there, have a
real, live brewing operation where we’re
putting it into kegs and serving pints,
putting it in bottles, and eventually a
canning line.”
Luke McKelvy,
co-owner, Levity Brewing Co.
They’ve embraced us.”
Another facet of Levity Brewing is that the men want it to be
a source of enlightenment about the beer their customers are
enjoying.
“The craft beer movement is pretty huge in America right
now — and honestly, there’s an excellent variety of craft beer
in town that one can get at any of the bars,” said Herman, a
science teacher in Pittsburgh. “But we approach it as, this is
our art, this is what we do.
“As an educator myself, I’m really excited to educate people
about what they’re tasting, what they should be looking for in
their beers, how it’s made — you know, what is it that gets
that flavor, that aroma. Just a lot of different things.”
“There’s excellent beer in town, but no one’s making their
own,” Herman added. “And fresh beer is the best beer.”
“It’s like fresh-baked bread,” McKelvy notes. “No substitute.”
Tying in to the education aspect for their customers, Herman said one idea might be to offer 80 beers from around the
world, sort of a play on “Around the World in 80 Days.”
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Maybe you’re streaming it
live through your television
provider while you’re on the
go.
While you’re watching,
that data is being sent from
the field, received by a satellite, collected and distributed — probably (almost
certainly) with a transmitter
(through a matrix switch)
developed, designed and
manufactured by Quintech
Electronics in White Township.
And that’s the case for virtually anything you use with
data that comes from a satellite for the distribution of
content: radio, television
and Internet.
“Quintech Electronics and
Communications Inc. is a
worldwide leader in satellite
RF (radio frequency) distribution products for broadcast, satellite, cable and government purposes,” according to CEO G. Daniel Prushnok.
Quintech was founded in
1989 in the Indiana County
Small Business Incubator on
the Indiana University of
Pennsylvania campus and
incorporated that same year
in Indiana. It is now located
along Airport Road in White
Township.
According to its website,
the company is a
controlled systematstate-of-the-art deic environment.
signer and manuQuintech sells to
facturer of RF signal
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munications equipin 2013, acquired a
ment and globally
company outside of
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network operator,” such as Prushnok said.
With the acquisition,
DirecTV, NBC, ABC, ESPN
and Comcast. And, he said, Prushnok said in a press reQuintech sells satellite lease that the company can
switches and other products provide a full suite of radio
to wireless telecommunica- frequency products, includtions companies such as ing matrix switches, routing
AT&T, Verizon, Nokia and switches, splitters and combiners, amplifiers, LNB
Erikson.
The company’s RF Matrix power supplies, RF over fiber
Switches make up about 60 transmitters and receivers,
percent of its sales, Prush- and optical splitters and
combiners.
nok said.
With the acquisition of
A Quintech matrix switching system can be used DEV, Quintech has about 115
by broadcast cable and satel- employees, 60 of whom
lite companies to distribute work in Indiana.
Prushnok said that an oncontent.
The matrix switch is also line presence is very imporused by network equipment tant for the company.
“Due to the nature and
managers and mobile device
makers while they develop type of products that we
and test their solutions. The make … (sales) usually start
device allows the switch of online,” he said. Then, the
an input to any outputs in a sale is usually negotiated.
“We do a lot of commerce
via our Quintech web page,”
which can be found at
www.quintechelectronics.
com.
Quintech is a unique business in that it does not recirculate money in the local
economy.
“A big benefit to the community is that, since we don’t
sell hardly anything locally
… every dollar Quintech
brings in … is a dollar that
came from outside to Indiana.”
As time goes on, technology will continue to change,
and Prushnok said Quintech
will continue to look for
growth areas.
“A big growth driver is 4G
LTE, LTE Direct — new platforms being rolled out by the
major
wireless
service
providers to improve quality
of service and improve data
speeds by incorporating new
technologies such as DAS
(Distributed Antennae Systems) and other small cell
technologies,” he said.
“As more and more content flows over a smaller
phone, more and more (of
Quintech’s products) will be
needed to handle the
amount of data.”
In addition, Prushnok said
that the company will continue its growth in fiber optics, “given the superior ability for fiber optics to handle
larger and larger data,” with
the addition of DEV products and technology.
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Expansion will help Diamond Drugs grow
By MARY ANN SLATER
[email protected]
D
iamond Drugs officials have
high hopes that a recent expansion project will lead to a
big boon for their drug repackaging business.
This past fall, an 11,000-squarefoot building was renovated for
RemedyRepack, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Diamond Drugs Inc.,
on the campus in the Indiana
County Commerce Park along
Kolter Drive in White Township.
Most of RemedyRepack’s operations have now moved from their
original 1,500-square-foot site into
the remodeled quarters, said the
subsidiary’s president, Mark Zilner. The new space was once the
home of Biocontrol Technology.
“This is very exciting for us,” Zilner said about the $1.2 million renovation project. “Currently we distribute 1.5 million packages (of
pharmaceuticals) a year. Our
thought is that we will quadruple
that in the next few years.”
RemedyRepack, which is registered with the United States Food
and Drug Administration, is a
repackager of pharmaceuticals.
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SAMANTHA JOHNSON opened bottles of pills and put them into a
machine before they are boxed for delivery at Diamond Drugs.
In business since 2006, the company packages and distributes
stock medications to nursing
homes, state correctional institutions, clinics, state agencies and
sports teams on both the professional and collegiate levels. Typically, these stock medications are
taken from bulk packaging and
distributed into smaller containers
that can be more easily used by the
clients RemedyRepack serves.
While pharmacies must package
pharmaceuticals for a given patient, RemedyRepack can package,
for example, a month’s supply of a
given drug in a stock bottle for a
clinic or nursing home or doctor’s
office. In turn, those offices can
distribute the medication to patients without having to maintain
their own pharmacy.
The genesis for RemedyRepack
actually came in the early 2000s, as
Diamond Drugs officials were
evaluating the way the company
did business.
At that time, Diamond Drugs was
already selling to state correctional
institutions and nursing homes
across the region but it was not
doing its own repackaging. Instead
it contracted out to a third party
that would package the company’s
drugs for sale to various offices.
It could not do its own repackaging because those operations required licensing approval from the
FDA, approval that Diamond
Drugs didn’t have at that time.
After using a middleman for five
years, company leaders decided a
change was in order: “We would
become our own repackager,” Zilner said.
“At our volume, we decided it
would be financially beneficial for
us to package on our own. Some of
the third parties we were working
with had a hard time keeping up
with our volume.”
Becoming a drug repackager is
no easy task, however. “It took us
four years,” Zilner said. “(The
process to become a repackager) is
very structured according to FDA
regulations.
“You are required to have approved practices and procedures,
repacking techniques and quality
controls that meet FDA specifications.”
“It puts you in the same (FDA)
classification as a drug manufacturer, and that is more than a pharmacy has.”
The FDA gave its final nod to
RemedyRepack in 2006. From then
until last fall, its repackaging operations were staged in 1,500 square
feet of space.
Zilner said the enlarged quarters
will spur business growth in several ways.
“The new location will allow us
to have more capacity to grow our
current market and to open new
ones. It will allow us to go after
larger accounts.”
Currently, RemedyRepack ships
drug packages to 44 states via
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In the past, RemedyRepack had done limited repackaging of liquid and injectable
pharmaceuticals, but Zilner hopes the new
building project, and some added new
technology, will help the company expand
those markets. He is also eyeing a possible
increased distribution of penicillin for
RemedyRepack.
Under FDA regulations, pharmaceutical
repackagers must maintain a separate
physical space, with its own separate airhandling unit, for processing penicillin. Zilner said the FDA mandates that penicillin
be processed apart from other drugs because of concerns with contamination or
cross-allergens.
So while most of its repackaging procedures have moved to a new locale, RemedyRepack will now use its old smaller site
for repackaging penicillin.
“There aren’t many that repackage penicillin. It will give us an edge in the market.”
With its expanded facility, RemedyRepack
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Diamond Drugs is a family business,
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than 40 years. The business began as a
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High-density housing
finds appeal with students
By SEAN YODER
[email protected]
T
he student housing
market in Indiana continues its trend toward
high-density apartments
that took off in 2006 with the
introduction of zoning
changes in the borough and
the groundbreaking for Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s residential suites.
Dick Clawson, executive
director of the ArmstrongIndiana Homebuilders Association, said this swing from
traditional neighborhoods
to more modern, high-density housing has taken its toll
on owners of the older houses in the borough.
“A lot of the older dwellings
within, let’s say, a four- or
five-block radius of IUP were
single-family dwellings. People would buy those and rent
them to students. And that
was the population of student renters.”
He said when the first twoand three-story buildings
went up, starting with
Wyoming Hall along Oakland Avenue, students started becoming more selective.
Now, he said, amenities
such as workout facilities
and pools have made the
older houses unattractive,
often causing them to remain vacant.
And, with these high-density buildings, students don’t
have to cut the lawn or shovel the sidewalks.
“I think students today feel
privileged.”
“I’ve had parents pay double so a kid could have a
room by himself. The kids
are expecting a lot more
now. The parents are demanding a lot more now.”
Clawson is the volunteer
manager of the Sigma Chi
fraternity house, which he
helped to found when he
was a student at IUP in the
late 1960s.
He said construction of the
suites on campus — with
nicer, more spacious living
areas — have further reinforced the notion that students now expect more and
that parents will pay more.
“That whole thing has
changed the dynamics of
student rentals,” he said.
Construction of IUP’s $245
million housing project
started in 2006.
But despite the student
population stagnating for a
few years and the brand-new
on-campus suites, business
still appears to look good for
the private apartment developers.
About 35 apartment buildings exist for IUP students in
Indiana Borough and White
Township, not counting
houses that have been converted into multiple units.
Representatives for University Square, with locations near campus on School
and Grant streets, reported
they generally see 100 percent capacity. Officials for
Crimson Court Townhouses,
at the corner of School and
South Seventh streets, reported that they had 100
percent capacity last year
and are already at 100 percent for this year.
Officials at Philadelphia
Square and The Apartment
Store did not return calls for
comment.
Developers of the Copper
Beech apartment complex,
owned in part by Campus
Crest, plan to add 96 beds in
four buildings in the coming
year at their location behind
Regency Mall. The plan also
includes an additional 103
parking spaces.
Campus Crest is also the
parent company of The
Grove apartments along
Medlar Drive, built in 2013.
Indiana is one of only six locations in the U.S. where
Campus Crest has built multiple housing complexes.
Campus Crest will be
building another set of The
Grove apartments in Slippery Rock and has already
built a set of apartments
near State College.
High-density living space
developers were given a
boost in 2006 when the borough enacted the nowabandoned
traditional
neighborhood development
overlay zone. The goal of the
TND zone was to condense
student rentals to areas immediately surrounding the
university campus.
Some residents said this
resulted in “spot zoning” and
that traditional families
caught in the zone were unhappy living next to highdensity apartments. Others
said the overlay zone was ruining their property values.
Councilman
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Thorell, who chaired Indiana
Borough’s community develContinued on Page 21
“I THINK students
today feel privileged.
I’ve had parents pay
double so a kid
could have a room
by himself. The kids
are expecting a lot
more now. The
parents are
demanding a lot
more now.”
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the TND zone was repealed,
said it was a “gigantic failure.” Borough council voted
to lift the TND overlay zone
in July 2013.
Inside the campus boundaries, out of reach of borough ordinances and zoning, IUP’s housing is divided
into two categories: suites
and traditional residence
halls, though the latter is
now nearly extinct.
In IUP’s long-range facilities master plan, the university intends to demolish University Towers and McCarthy
Hall, which sleep about 130
and 150, respectively. University Towers is IUP’s sole
apartment building. In the
six- to 10-year range, IUP intends to renovate the older
Elkin and Whitmyre halls.
The suites contain 3,500
beds in eight buildings, giving the school the ability to
house about 25 percent of
the entire undergraduate
student body. The other residence halls account for another 1,000 beds.
Michelle Fryling, director
of communications at IUP,
said IUP’s housing has been
above 98 percent capacity
since 2002.
Currently, the university is
managing its capacity in a
way that reflects their enrollment, Fryling said. There are
plans to explore the possibility of nontraditional student
housing on campus, but
there are no details on what
that may look like.
As for the older student
rentals, Clawson said their
future is uncertain.
“They’ve been beat so
badly that an investor is
going to have to spend a lot
of money to bring them up
to speed. If they can’t make it
a family-friendly neighborhood, who’s going to live
there? Students aren’t going
to live there.”
H. Pat McDonald, former
president of the now-dissolved Indiana County
Board of Realtors, said it can
be difficult to place a family
in a traditional home, but
wasn’t convinced that more
homes were sitting vacant
than in the past, she said.
“It changes so much,” she
said, referring to student
population. “We have people
who are always coming and
going.”
She said there is always a
need for properties.
McDonald has been working in the region for about 20
years and made a permanent switch to Indiana in
2010 when she transferred to
the local Howard Hanna
branch.
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when you are looking to find
a three-bedroom or fourbedroom (house in the borough) for a family that wants
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22 — Business Indiana, Friday, January 23, 2015
Officials: County thriving
amid economic growth
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ocal officials and organizers are optimistic
about Indiana County’s
future, saying the county has
the ability, through quality of
life, and opportunities, with
the development parks, necessary for economic growth.
“From a business perspective, I think Indiana County
is doing very well,” Jim
Struzzi, president of the Indiana County Chamber of
Commerce, said in a recent
interview.
He said storefronts in
downtown Indiana fill up
very quickly, and the space
Furniture World once occupied in the Indiana West
Plaza along Philadelphia
Street near Shelly Drive
didn’t stay vacant very long.
“I think even if you look at
some of our other small
towns in Indiana County,
they’re doing very well,”
Struzzi said. “A lot of people
are moving to Indiana County because of our quality of
life and our opportunities
here.”
He said the quality of life in
the county isn’t something
you can necessarily get in
more urban places, that the
small-town atmosphere and
sense of community is important to a lot of people.
Public parks such as Yellow
Creek State Park also provide
a draw as businesses look for
healthy places for their employees can live.
He said the video the
chamber of commerce produced will show people that
“Indiana County is open for
business.”
“To let them know, if you
come here you will be supported and you will have the
opportunity to be successful.
You’ll have a county team
that’s behind you 100 percent.”
Struzzi and Byron Stauffer,
executive director andthe Indiana County Office of Planning and Development, both
touted the Windy Ridge
Business and Technology
Park along Route 286 in
White Township as an opportunity to attract busi-
Top 10 employers
The 10 largest employers in Indiana County:
1. Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana: 1,655
2. Indiana Regional Medical Center, White Twp.: 1,300
3. Diamond Drugs Inc., White Township: 923
4. Peoples Natural Gas Co., White Township: 700
5. First Commonwealth Bank, Indiana: 675
6. Indiana Area School District: 545
7. S&T Bank, Indiana: 503
8. Indiana County Court House, Indiana: 482
9. Blairsville-Saltsburg School District: 435
10. Walmart Super Center, White Township: 360
Source: Indiana County Chamber of Commerce
“WE’RE STILL placing a focus on
job retention. It’s the companies
that we have here that are going to
be the main thrust of our economic
growth.”
Byron Stauffer Jr., planning office
“A LOT of people are moving to
Indiana County because of our
quality of life and our
opportunities here.”
Jim Struzzi, chamber president
nesses to the area.
Stauffer said his mantra
with Windy Ridge has been,
“if you build it, they will
come.”
The 200-acre site, which is
owned by the Indiana County Development Corporation and whose only current
tenant is Creps United Publications, was divided into
eight lots in December. Plans
for a final site plan that
would establish the development’s streets and sewer system were approved by the
White Township Planning
Commission on Jan. 13.
Already the ICDC is working on grading the next
phase of development. A
large water tank and waterlines have already been installed.
If and when the site plan is
approved, bids for the development of lots 1, 2, 3, 4 and 9
could be put out as early as
February, Stauffer said.
The work will call for the
creation of a private road on
one contract and underground
utilities
and
stormwater on another.
Work could commence as
early as March or April.
Stauffer said it is imperative that the Windy Ridge development have lots that are
ready to attract businesses.
Already, though, the county
is “aggressively” marketing
the site, and the county as a
whole, at trade shows and
through marketing materials
to target companies. Stauffer
said he is guided by two
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amid economic growth
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principles: to create family-sustaining jobs,
and to increase capital investment and the
tax base. He said they have declined some
business prospects in the past because they
don’t meet both of those criteria.
The county is also cooking up a new real
estate website that will allow local landowners to post their properties. That site will then
connect to external websites to give the
county a national presence.
“We’ve had some inquiries from our efforts,” Stauffer said.
He said he hopes to begin negotiating with
some of the prospects, which he declined to
name, as soon as construction is finished on
the development sites.
“We’re encouraged by the level of interest
we’ve had so far,” he said.
With the possibility of private development
by Mario Luther across Route 286 from
Windy Ridge, Struzzi said, “I think you could
see that area out there really blossom.”
But Stauffer and Struzzi are concerned
with more than just attracting new business
to the county. They want to make sure that
current local businesses are thriving and getting the resources they need.
“We’re still placing a focus on job reten-
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tion,” Stauffer said. “It’s the companies that
we have here that are going to be the main
thrust of our economic growth.”
Stauffer said he wants to work with startups and grow them into mature companies.
One way the Center for Economic Operations does this is the revolving loan fund,
designed to advance projects that will create or retain jobs, according to the CEO
website.
The Small Business Incubator in the
Robertshaw Building along South 13th Street
is a way for startups to get low rent and access to other resources to help them survive
their first few tumultuous years.
Some improvements to the Jimmy Stewart
airport could also open up more economic
opportunity by attracting clients who want
to fly in on smaller aircraft. The area around
Airport Road has been dubbed a Keystone
Opportunity Zone.
Currently the airport lacks GPS-based
landing equipment necessary for landing in
inclement weather. Work finished up there
on a new 5,500-foot runway in 2013. Next,
some trees must be removed.
“All of these things are kind of coming together now. It’s going to be fun to see where
we are five years from now,” Struzzi said.
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