From Staff Reports
Getting Shop Vac Corp. employees to return to work is key to the new company owner’s plans to reinvigorate manufacturing of the brand’s famous canister vacuum.
Shop Vac, which terminated the bulk of its 400 employees in the Williamsport area in mid-September after a proposed sale of the global manufacturer fell through, is being bought by a publicly traded corporation that has operations in a number of countries.
The group specializes in the manufacturing of hand tools.
The acquisition, finalized the day before Christmas, complements what the new owner already produces as none of their facilities manufacture a container vacuum, according to Jason Fink, CEO of the Williamsport-Lycoming Chamber of Commerce.