Truck-Lite to Relocate to Pennsylvania in Preparation for EVs

A Truck-Lite recruiter talks to Penn State Behrend students. The company is relocating its headquarters to Erie, Pa. (Penn State Behrend)

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Truck-Lite Co., a provider of LED lighting systems for commercial vehicles, announced it is relocating its headquarters to Knowledge Park at Penn State Behrend in Erie, Pa.

The move is intended to improve future access to engineering and technology talent as the company prepares for the transportation industry’s shift to electric vehicles in the years to come.

“Relocating our headquarters to Knowledge Park and expanding our association with Penn State Behrend, a major college of one of the country’s top universities and a long-standing Truck-Lite partner, creates a strong pipeline of future electrical engineers, data scientists and business leaders in the years to come,” said Brian Kupchella, CEO of Clarience Technologies, the parent company of Truck-Lite.

Kupchella

Truck-Lite currently is based in Falconer, N.Y.

The company noted it will lease nearly 30,000 square feet from Penn State Behrend for its back-office operations. Meanwhile, Penn State Behrend will invest in enhancements to its Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Center, which will contain Truck-Lite’s laboratory and test space.

Truck-Lite has sponsored student research projects at the school of engineering since 2006 and later opened its innovation center at Knowledge Park. In March, Clarience Technologies announced an early career professorship program at Behrend that will focus on four senior design projects involving data analytics. — Transport Topics

@TruckLite will move its corporate HQ to Knowledge Park, where the company will have better access to #Behrend's engineering and technology talent. https://t.co/MF4ysXDo0I — Penn State Behrend (@PSBehrend) May 25, 2021

“Future solutions need to do more than lead the way in lighting technology; they also need to seamlessly integrate into electric vehicle hardware and software platforms,” Truck-Lite General Manager Shane Brown said.

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