Objectives

ETAC's mission is to help companies increase productivity, improve energy efficiency and achieve and maintain environmental compliance. ETAC believes that the key to pollution prevention and energy efficiency (P2E2) is employing new technologies to improve manufacturing efficiency and effectiveness. The staff at ETAC introduces businesses to technologies and production methods that will ultimately reduce production costs and improve the bottom line.

Through support from Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Production (DEP), ETAC strives to offer reasonable costs for confidential services and helps clients seek out grants and other funding sources to help pay for projects. The DEP Grant will fund up to 70% of the cost of any ETAC project performed that reduces volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions.

ETAC was created in 1994 through a partnership between Northampton Community College and Pennsylvania Power and Light Company with the goal of helping manufacturers. After five years, the partnership with the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company was not renewed — ETAC is now wholly owned by Northampton Community College. ETAC has assisted several hundred companies throughout the state and the country-and presently serves more than 100 companies each year.