‘Noise Solutions’ for Drilling/Compressor Plants Locates in NWPA

Here's a feel good supply chain story. A privately held Canadian company that in 1997 innovated a way to make industrial operations--like noisy compressor plants--quieter, wanted to build a manufacturing plant here in the U.S.--near the oil and gas industry that will use their innovative products. So where did Scott MacDonald, president and CEO of Noise Solutions, look? The northeast of course--Marcellus and Utica territory. He considered New York, but the taxes are way too high and the shale drilling non-existent. He also considered West Virginia and Ohio, which were good choices. But MacDonald settled on Sharon (Mercer County), PA as the new home for a plant that already employs 35 people and is on it's way to employing 125 or more. MacDonald and Noise Solutions will spend $5 million to renovate the former Winner International warehouse where the company chose to set up shop. That investment along with the ripple effect of full-time employees paying local and state taxes (and spending much of their paychecks in the local community) gives Sharon a big "economic stimulus" courtesy of this Canadian company. Here's more about Noise Solutions and their new operation in Sharon, PA...

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