Catalyst Connection

Catalyst Connection is a southwestern Pennsylvania economic development organization dedicated to serving manufacturers. For more than 35 years, Catalyst has operated with a focus on powering potential through delivering technical assistance, consulting services, workforce development, and developing long-standing partnerships across the region. Catalyst maintains a deeply held commitment to modernizing manufacturing and enabling opportunity across business enterprises, individuals, and throughout communities.

Catalyst Connection is supported, in part by, the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development and the National Institute of Technology Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NIST MEP).  Catalyst Connection is Southwestern Pennsylvania’s Industrial Resource Center (IRC) apart of the MEP National Network.

For the past 20 years, Catalyst Connection has been engaged in STEM programming under their Explore the New Manufacturing branding to build a pipeline of talent for manufacturing companies in our region.  Annually, we connect with over 60 school districts, 100 manufacturing companies, 2,000 students, and partner with over 40 regional STEM organizations. We design and develop our own programming and partner on regional and state-wide initiatives.