Steel Valley Authority

WHAT IS STRATEGIC EARLY WARNING NETWORK?

The Steel Valley Authority is a unique development agency founded in 1986 to retain and revitalize the region’s economic base and preserve jobs.

In 1993, the State of Pennsylvania charged the Steel Valley Authority with developing a Strategic Early Warning Network (SEWN) to help save area companies and jobs. The Network now manages retention services across a regional footprint of 62 counties covering Western, Central and Northeastern Pennsylvania assisting all industrial sectors. Since then, the Steel Valley Authority has helped scores of companies and saved thousands of jobs.

Our Strategic Early Warning Network provides a wide variety of professional and consulting services at no charge. We work with all interested parties: workers, management and owners.

Our only objective is to save jobs in Pennsylvania.

Experience shows us that a company’s problems are easier to address before they reach the crisis stage. It is also easier and less costly to save an existing local company than to create a new business or attract one from outside the region.

Within 48 hours of your call, the Steel Valley Authority’s staff will contact your company’s management, owners or employees to set up site visits and plant tours. We will assess the situation and help to define your company’s critical problems. Then, working with all parties concerned, we’ll inventory all available resources and help develop solutions.