Terrapin, a manufacturer of medical cannabis products here, is re-investing in its local plant — and workforce. Troy Conzelmann, the company’s East Coast director of operations, brought his enthusiasm for Terrapin and its mission to the Kiwanis Club of Lock Haven as a guest speaker recently.
Terrapin was founded in Colorado in 2009 and expanded to Pennsylvania in 2017 upon the state’s approval of medical cannabis products for the treatment of various health ailments. The firm worked with the Clinton County Economic Partnership and settled into the old but sprawling Avis Homes plant just off state Route 220 in eastern Clinton County.
Terrapin hasn’t looked back since. With 35 workers, Terrapin began cultivating, packaging and distributing medical cannabis products to dispensaries licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health in 2017.
Three years later — and amid COVID-19 — the firm expanded operations by roughly 80,000 more square feet and increased its workforce to 110 people.
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