Pennsylvania Firm Sees Growth Potential in Medical Marijuana Market
From the start, Lalit Chordia wants this to be clear: His manufacturing outfit in O'Hara is not a medical marijuana company.
It just happens that a high-pressure extraction method long mastered by Thar Process Inc. works wonders in producing treatments from the plant — namely pills, Chordia said.
Now that Pennsylvania has approved medical marijuana in limited forms — including those pills — he wants his business to stake a prime spot in the state's emerging production market for the drug. The company president figures Western Pennsylvania suppliers for his extraction systems could add a couple of dozen workers to meet new demand, not including positions that Thar Process might add to its own payroll of about 30 workers.
"Our objective would be that, rightfully, we should be the largest supplier of technology to every medical marijuana facility in Pennsylvania," said Chordia, who estimated the therapy could drive more than...
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