Daily News | Why this CEO moved his team from Harrisburg to Philadelphia and refocused on environmental cleanup
Starting in the 1870s, Harrisburg Car Co., known as Harsco, built industrial tools like railcars, furnaces, scaffolding, and oil and gas equipment in factories across Pennsylvania that drew investors from Wall Street and workers from around the world.
in 1968. The spacious public library in Harrisburg’s Mechanicsburg suburb is named for and honors the late Harsco chairman and local booster Joseph T. Simpson.Refocusing on environmental cleanup Steel-mill slag and scrap recycling, a global business in which the company’s environmental division serves global giants like steel manufacturer ArcelorMittal and competes with two other locally based, privately owned giants,Hazardous-waste processing through the company’s Clean Earth division, lately enlarged by the purchase of Chicago-based Stericycle’s Environmental Solutions unit and recently relocated to King of Prussia.
Grasberger said that last summer he was recruiting a chief financial officer, “and there was not a single candidate in a national search who was willing to move to Harrisburg.”
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