{"id":113998,"date":"2022-10-06T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113998"},"modified":"2022-10-06T22:00:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T02:00:13","slug":"groove-on-at-smooth-on-luncheon-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113998","title":{"rendered":"Groove On at Smooth- On Luncheon Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join the East Penn and Western Lehigh Chambers of Commerce as we tour Smooth-On, a local manufacturer with \u201cMind Blowing Materials for A World of Applications.\u201d Located at 5600 Lower Macungie Rd, this tour will take place on October 12th from 11am- 1pm. Registration, networking, and lunch will take place from 11a-11:45a. A brief presentation will take place from 11:45a-12p then tours will go from 12-1p. Tickets are $40 for Members and $60 for Future Members. All are welcome to join!<\/p>\n<p>Trey Bianco is the President and co-owner of Smooth-On Inc., a privately held manufacturer and distributor of liquid rubber and plastic systems. Their products are used to create many of the sets, props and special effects used in most movies throughout the world. Their products are also used to make molds for creating cast stone facades on buildings as well as the restoration of significant buildings from Washington DC to the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>Smooth-On employs 250 people in a 365,000 square foot State of the Art automated manufacturing facility in Macungie PA and owns over 12 distribution hubs in major cities throughout the United States and Europe, and sells its products through over 500 distributors and 250,000 customers globally.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Vice President of Affiliated Chamber\u2019s Jessica O\u2019Donnell shares how exciting it is to have such a huge, impactful manufacturer right in the Lehigh Valley, \u201cWe love how this local company, employing Lehigh Valley residents, has international presence in films like Star Wars, Iron Man, The Walking Dead, and more. Big things are coming from the Lehigh Valley!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sponsorship opportunities are still available for this event if someone wants to get their business branding associated with a knock-out event!<\/p>\n<p>For more information and to register, please go to:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.lehighvalleychamber.org\/events\/SmoothOnLuncheon%20Tour-838744\/details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/web.lehighvalleychamber.org\/events\/SmoothOnLuncheon%20Tour-838744\/details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>When:\u00a0<\/strong>Wednesday 10\/12\/2022 from 11a-1p<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:\u00a0<\/strong>Smooth- On, 5600 Lower Macungie Rd, Macungie, PA 18062<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pricing Information<\/strong>: $40 for Members, $60 for Future Members<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sponsors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Presenting- Smooth-On<\/p>\n<p>Bronze- Macungie Ambulance Corps<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>About the Chamber:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<em>The mission of The Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce is to improve the economy and quality of life in the Lehigh Valley Metropolitan Area.\u00a0 We accomplish this through business-to-business networking events and marketing products, affinity programs and exclusive, money saving member benefits, training programs, government affairs initiatives and public policy advocacy, and community development enterprises.\u00a0 With nearly 5,000 members who employ more than 200,000, the Chamber is the largest in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and in the top ten nationwide.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nAshley Lorah<br \/>\nSenior Vice President of Affiliated Chambers<br \/>\nGreater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleychamber.org\/\">https:\/\/www.lehighvalleychamber.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the East Penn and Western Lehigh Chambers of Commerce as we tour Smooth-On, a local manufacturer with \u201cMind Blowing Materials for A World of Applications.\u201d Located at 5600 Lower &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113998\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Groove On at Smooth- On Luncheon Tour<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/smooth-on.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}