Pleasant Mount Welding wins manufacturing innovation award

Pleasant Mount Welding Inc., Carbondale, Pa., has won the 2018 Ben Franklin Technology Partners (BFTP)of Northeastern Pennsylvania Innovation Award in the Manufacturing Achievement category. The award honors companies and individuals who have achieved business success through Ben Franklin funding and assistance, have helped others to achieve success, or have improved their businesses through innovation.

Pleasant Mount Welding is a specialty metals fabricator of flood control equipment and SBR wastewater equipment. Since 1988 Ben Franklin has supported the company’s IT infrastructure. Most recently BFTP engaged Johnson College to help Pleasant Mount Welding build a machine controlled by PLC software to manufacture grating. A current Ben Franklin project for a proprietary water treatment facility is expected to create 10 jobs at the fabricating firm.