Made in Pennsylvania: Bloomsburg Carpet

In an effort to find a Pennsylvania manufacturer that makes everything in the average home – I was very happy to stumble across Bloomsburg Carpet.  You guessed it – they’re base in Bloomsburg, Pa.  Bloomsburg Carpet has been weaving high quality carpet for the past 30 years. 
Bloomsburg Carpet and its subsidiaries weave a wide [...]

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Made in Pennsylvania: Artex Knitting Mills

While many companies are finding it necessary to cut headcount and floor space – Conshohocken, Pa based Artex Knitting Mills is bucking the downward trend.  In fact, they’ve been doing so since 1926, when they fought through the Great Depression.  Their experience it seems has been valuable.  The expanded their facility by 30,000 sq. ft. in 2005 [...]

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Made in Pennsylvania: Equinox Outdoor Gear

With over 83,000 miles of streams & rivers, a 232 mile section of the Appalachian Trail, at least 6 other trails exceed 100 miles and a $3 billion hunting and fishing industry – Pennsylvania is a ripe ecosystem for outdoor gear & equipment companies.  This is why the reknown Cabelas opened one of its few East Coast stores in Hamburg, [...]

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Made in Pennsylvania: Ener-Gel Insoles

One of the neatest thing about Pennsylvania is that you’ll find small companies that you could easily miss driving 65 mph in and out of town.  Places that were started on the back of a good idea, small bank account, and a heckuva lot of elbow grease.  One of those companies is Ener-Gel Insoles – [...]

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Made in Pennsylvania: Double-H Boots

You would think that with 12.5 million pairs of feet roaming our State that there would be several dozen shoe or boot manufacturers dotting the countryside.  We’ve grown to accept globalization and realize that some things will come from other places, but its nice to find a local manufacturer still selling wares in Pennsylvania.  Womelsdorf [...]

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Made in Pennsylvania: Bollman Hat

Adamstown, Pa based Bollman Hat has been a Pennsylvanian company for 140 years and is the United States oldest hat company – selling high-end hats and doing its part to fight skin cancer. Whether its the sustained trend of fewer people wearing hats, the economy, or competition from the far east – Bollman has fallen [...]

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Made in Pennsylvania: Bills Khakis

It isn’t everyday that you see someone starting a Khaki company – but that exactly what Bill Thomas set out to do in 1990 after peddling 250 pairs from the “back of his car.”  The story goes that when Bill was in college in the 1980’s - he purchased a thick, well-built, deep pocketed pair of [...]

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Made in Pennsylvania: FesslerUSA Apparel

Orwigsburg, Pa based FesslerUSA is in a unique position - a lot of its competition was shipped offshore and the Pennsylvania clothing manufacturer sees that as an advantage.  Either the company is crazy or brilliant.  “No matter what you do in China, It takes 3 or 4 weeks to get it acrossed the ocean” said CEO Walter Meck [...]

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Made in Pennsylvania – Aero Tech Designs Cyclewear

A little north of Pittsburgh just off of the Ohio River in Coraopolis, PA, you can find a small brick building where the make Aero Tech Designs Cyclewear. The company has been in business 25 years and manufacturers its products on premises. They even claim to get the majority of their material (spandex) from within [...]

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Made in Pennsylvania: Brookville Glove

Not too far from Pine Creek off of 322- there’s a “Made in Pennsylvania” company that’s been in business 120 years.  The company doesn’t have a fancy facility, rather it  operates out of an old brick building that looks the part of an old manufacturing company left over from Pennsylvania’s industrial hay day.  Brookville Glove produces [...]

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