A growing electronics manufacturing firm settled into a newly expanded facility in Westmoreland County.
Area officials joined Intervala executives Monday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark completion of the company’s 217,000-square-foot location at the RIDC Westmoreland Innovation Center near New Stanton.
Intervala President and CEO Teresa Huber said the expansion from the 136,500 square feet the company previously occupied at the center includes offices for its corporate headquarters and a new production floor spanning 125,000 square feet.
The company manufactures printed circuit board assemblies, electromechanical systems and cable and harness assemblies. It has added more than 100 skilled jobs in the region in the past five years and is looking to fill additional job openings, Huber said.
Intervala signed a five-year lease at the Innovation Center, with multiple renewals possible.
“Our intention is to stay here permanently,” Huber said. “The most important thing about this site is the opportunity to have a larger footprint to support our growth. We’ve increased our workforce over 30%.”
She said there are about 245 people working at Intervala’s Westmoreland location — out of a total company workforce of 385, including at a plant in New Hampshire.
Construction of Intervala’s expanded Westmoreland facility was assisted with a $2.25 million low-interest loan from the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority to the nonprofit Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania, which oversees the property. The project tapped an RIDC manufacturing loan fund for an additional $1 million.
Intervala moved to the Westmoreland site after a water line break shut down work at the company’s former location at Keystone Commons, a facility in East Pittsburgh also operated by RIDC.
“Bringing back businesses and jobs to RIDC Westmoreland has been our priority from day one,” RIDC President Donald Smith Jr. said. “Intervala’s presence here not only aligns with that goal, it also advances the manufacturing ecosystem that’s growing at this site.”
Intervala is “supporting companies in the region that need contract manufacturing services in printed circuit boards, and it’s also servicing companies around the world,” said Tim White, senior vice president of development for RIDC. “It’s very exciting.”
With Intervala’s expansion, RIDC has reached more than 50% occupancy on the first floor of the Innovation Center, with plenty of room for further growth at the spacious site — formerly occupied by a Sony television plant.
Intervala’s former home, a 135,000-square-foot space at Keystone Commons, is ready for a new tenant, White said.