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Superior Huntingdon Composites plans to bring a production line that has sat idle since 2012 back into service at its fiberglass plant in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, a $4.4 million project that the state says will create 26 new jobs over the next three years and retain 74 existing full-time positions. Gov. Josh Shapiro announced the project Wednesday, Oct. 28.
The two job numbers describe different things. The 26 positions are new jobs the company is expected to add over three years. The 74 positions are jobs that already exist at the plant and that the state counts as retained. Together they do not represent 100 new hires: on the state’s figures, the project adds 26 jobs to the payroll, and the new positions are spread over a three-year period rather than created at once.
The idled line
According to the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, the company plans to reactivate a third production line, idled since 2012, at its facility at 1200 Susquehanna Avenue in Huntingdon Borough, Huntingdon County. The investment will expand the company’s fiberglass product manufacturing operations there.
Superior Huntingdon Composites makes fiberglass continuous filament mat and veil products used in composites manufacturing, according to the state. Those materials go into products for defense, power and energy, building materials, transportation, infrastructure and marine markets.
The plant has a long history in the borough. “For over five decades, Superior Huntingdon Composites has been fiberizing glass in our Huntingdon facility,” President and CEO Jason Takac said in the release. He said the investments will help the company grow its Pennsylvania manufacturing platform, invest in advanced production capabilities and reinforce the domestic supply chain.
The company has changed hands recently. In June 2024, investment bank Brown Gibbons Lang & Company announced the sale of Superior Huntingdon, previously a portfolio company of Stonewood Capital Management, to Liberty Lane Partners, a New Hampshire private equity firm, and St. Cloud Capital. That announcement described the company as a maker of custom and standard fiberglass continuous filament mat, Conformat-branded reinforcements and Surmat-branded veils.
How the state support is structured
The state says the Commonwealth is investing more than $1.8 million in the project. That support was offered through a funding proposal from DCED, coordinated by the governor’s BusinessPA team, and has two parts: a $1,687,757 loan from the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority, or PIDA, and a $200,000 Pennsylvania First grant.
Most of the state support is therefore a loan, which the company would repay, rather than a grant. The release describes the package as a funding proposal; it did not say whether the loan and grant have been finalized or what job and investment conditions are attached to them.
DCED Secretary Rick Siger said investing in manufacturers “in both urban and rural areas” helps companies thrive and creates good-paying jobs. Shapiro called Superior Huntingdon “a company with deep roots, a strong workforce, and a clear commitment to the future.”
What it means for Huntingdon County workers
For workers in Huntingdon County, the news has two sides. The retention figure means the state counts 74 current full-time jobs at the plant as kept in place by the project; those workers are already employed there. The 26 new positions are the growth piece, but they will arrive over three years, and the state did not describe the roles, pay or hiring schedule.
The release did not say when the third line will restart, how much additional output it will provide, or what kinds of positions running it will require. No wage figures were disclosed for either the new or the retained jobs.
The project is also small in statewide terms. The release says the Shapiro administration has won more than $43 billion in private-sector investment that it says is creating nearly 29,000 new jobs since the governor took office; those are the administration’s own cumulative figures, not measured employment counts. For Huntingdon, the more concrete measure will be whether an idle line is running again and whether the 26 positions are filled on the three-year schedule.
Sources
- Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development, “Supporting Pennsylvania Manufacturing: Governor Shapiro Secures $4.4 Million Investment from Superior Huntingdon Composites, LLC to Expand Operations, Creating 26 New Jobs,” October 28, 2026. https://dced.pa.gov/newsroom/supporting-pennsylvania-manufacturing-governor-shapiro-secures-4-4-million-investment-from-superior-huntingdon-composites-llc-to-expand-operations-creating-26-new-jobs/
- Textile World, “BGL Announces The Sale Of Superior Huntingdon Composites To Liberty Lane Partners,” June 12, 2024. https://www.textileworld.com/textile-world/2024/06/bgl-announces-the-sale-of-superior-huntingdon-composites-to-liberty-lane-partners/
Featured photo: A street in downtown Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, June 7, 2025. Representative image; not Superior Huntingdon Composites' plant on Susquehanna Avenue. Photo: Harrison Keely, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0). Cropped from the original.
