{"id":4401,"date":"2016-02-26T14:03:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T19:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solartechnology.com\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2018-05-07T09:48:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T13:48:28","slug":"25th-birthday-party-with-cake-at-solar-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solartechnology.com\/staging\/2016\/02\/25th-birthday-party-with-cake-at-solar-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"25th Birthday Party (with Cake!) at Solar Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4402 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/solartechnology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-26-2016Annivers-Cake-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"2-26-2016Annivers-Cake\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solartechnology.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-26-2016Annivers-Cake-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solartechnology.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-26-2016Annivers-Cake.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What started with Solar Technology founder Byron Zerphy working in his garage to design a solar-powered traffic sign has now grown into one of the leading Traffic Safety sign and Fleet Management companies in the world\u2026 in just 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Feb. 25<sup>th<\/sup>, the Zerphy family and staff celebrated their 25<sup>th<\/sup> year with a party at the company\u2019s headquarters. A slide show showing the prototypes of the first solar signs and the early history was on view\u2026 including the truck fog lights used in the first arrow board.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4403\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4403 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/solartechnology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-26-2016ChrisCrowd-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Rzonca, Production Planner, addresses the SolarTech employees.\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solartechnology.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-26-2016ChrisCrowd-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solartechnology.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-26-2016ChrisCrowd.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Rzonca, Production Planner, addresses the SolarTech employees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the past 25 years, the company has relocated three times due to growth, expanded its product line from 2 to 18 products, expanded into international markets and was listed as one of the Lehigh Valley Business\u2019 2015 Fastest Growing Companies.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Zerphy thanked the staff for their efforts in the past year by saying, \u201cWe are where we are today thanks to all of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company is an ISO-certified manufacturer with in-house R&amp;D, engineering and support staffs. Solar Technologies looks forward to the next 25 years and a continued bright future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What started with Solar Technology founder Byron Zerphy working in his garage to design a solar-powered traffic sign has now grown into one of the leading Traffic Safety sign and Fleet Management companies in the world\u2026 in just 25 years. On Thursday, Feb. 25th, the Zerphy family and staff celebrated their 25th year with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_swt_meta_header_display":false,"_swt_meta_footer_display":false,"_swt_meta_site_title_display":false,"_swt_meta_sticky_header":false,"_swt_meta_transparent_header":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[64,12],"class_list":["post-4401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company-news","tag-inc","tag-solar-technology"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Heidi","author_link":"https:\/\/solartechnology.com\/staging\/author\/solar-technology-2\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"What started with Solar Technology founder Byron Zerphy working in his garage to design a solar-powered traffic sign has now grown into one of the leading Traffic Safety sign and Fleet Management companies in the world\u2026 in just 25 years. 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