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2 weeks ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Dan O'Brien
HERMITAGE, Pa. – Blake Lutton is a managing partner of a very young company. His firm, Hermitage IT Solutions, needed some basics just to get off the ground. Established in September, the company was in search of professional office space, rudimentary office equipment and amenities such as a conference room to meet with existing and prospective clients.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Dan O'Brien
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Amiel Bernal descends an industrial staircase headed to a workspace like no other in the Mahoning Valley. Here, in what is known as Tech Block Building No. 5, some of the most sophisticated machines used in advanced manufacturing hum along, ranging from large 3D printers to lab equipment used to conduct research and development on materials that could one day transform the metals industry. That’s exactly why Bernal, the chief operating officer for Tailored Alloys LLC, is here.
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3 weeks ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Dan O'Brien
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – City Council next week will consider legislation sponsored by Mayor Jamael Tito Brown to reinstate an enterprise zone agreement at the defunct Chill Can site on the East Side. In December, City Council voted to terminate a 10-year, 75% tax abatement program on buildings and land on the 21-acre property. That termination would have been effective after this year.
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3 weeks ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Dan O'Brien
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – A feasibility study commissioned by Graphite One Inc. shows promise for a multibillion-dollar graphite processing plant the company is considering for Weathersfield Township – a project local officials say is critical to the electric vehicle market and national security interests. The study, prepared by Barr Engineering Co., was completed 15 months ahead of schedule due to a $37.5 million grant awarded to Graphite One in 2023 through the Defense Production Act Title III.
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3 weeks ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Dan O'Brien
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Four ex-officers and directors of defunct Lordstown Motors Corp. will be allowed to obtain advances of a company insurance policy to pay their legal bills, a bankruptcy judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Mary F.
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3 weeks ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Dan O'Brien
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – After realizing strong oil and gas production results across eastern Ohio’s Utica/Point Pleasant shale play in Carroll, Harrison and Columbiana counties, Encino Energy is inching its position northward. The Houston-based energy company is now actively drilling its first horizontal well in Mahoning County. The well is also the first one targeting the Utica/Point Pleasant drilled in the county in more than 10 years, records show.
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3 weeks ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Dan O'Brien
BOARDMAN, Ohio – Two local nonprofits will share in more than $62,200 in contributions from Boardman Subaru as part of Subaru’s Share the Love annual event, principals announced. A check for $39,229 was awarded to Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley, and a second donation of $23,042 was given to Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley during a check presentation ceremony at the South Avenue dealership Tuesday morning. “We want to be a good partner to the community.
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1 month ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Dan O'Brien
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – A subsidiary of a global technology and crypto mining company based in Singapore has acquired nearly 43 acres in Weathersfield Township in Trumbull County, a sign that the company is looking to expand its footprint in Ohio. White Tail Creek LLC, an Ohio subsidiary of Bitdeer Technologies Group, Singapore, purchased five parcels totaling 42.6 acres in the township for $3.4 million on May 5, according to records from the Trumbull County auditor’s office.
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1 month ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Dan O'Brien
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, Jessie Taft Smith of Bazetta Township in Trumbull County was relaxing in the reading room of the British passenger liner RMS Lusitania when she heard a loud noise. “The ship seemed to lift,” Smith recounted in testimony days later. “Shortly afterwards another explosion occurred. I went to my stateroom but was told not to hurry as there was no danger.”There was plenty of danger, though.
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1 month ago | 
businessjournaldaily.com | Dan O'Brien
NILES, Ohio – A long-term partnership between 717 Credit Union and the Mahoning Valley Scrappers baseball team is a home run for both organizations and the entire community, officials said at a press event at Eastwood Field on Tuesday. “As opening day nears, there’s a special kind of energy that takes over the Valley,” John Demmler, president and CEO of 717, told guests during a news conference.
