Lancaster Company Credits Drilling For Boom In Business

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

October 26, 2011 | 12:02 PM

There’s no Marcellus Shale in Lancaster County, but a company there has seen a 20-percent jump in business, due to Pennsylvania’s drilling boom.
WITF has more:

Mount Joy Wire Corporation in Mount Joy, Lancaster County has experienced a 20 percent jump in the production of wires for brushes used by drilling companies in the last two years. CEO Tom Duff says the business has needed more help to handle the increasing demand for its product. “It has certainly helped create additional jobs here for us and bring people back to work from the Great Recession,” he says. “During 2010, we ended up bringing back almost 30 people who had been on layoff, and since then, we’ve created about eight additional jobs.”