SEDA-COG assisted Lavern and Jewel Peachey with an SBA 504 loan for their business Coffee Run Heat Treating, LLC. Additional financing was provided by MCS Bank of Lewistown. The funds enabled the borrowers to construct a 26,625 square foot manufacturing facility on their existing property to house their pallet treating business. Wooden pallets are heat treated for the purpose of eradicating any bugs, mold or mildew that may be present on the pallets. Pallets shipped overseas and those used for pharmaceutical or food distribution are generally required to be heat treated. The borrowers do not ship pallets overseas, but do treat them for their customers that may do so.

Lavern and Jewel Peachey currently own Coffee Run Trucking, LLC that they started in 2006. This project was an addition to their basic trucking operation and they will continue to serve the same industry and customers as they have for the past eight years throughout Mifflin County and surrounding areas.

Lavern C. Peachey, Operations Manager, has been a truck driver for 11 years and Jewel A. Peachey is actively involved in the business as the Office Manager.

The Peachey’s also received funding from the SEDA-COG Telecommunications, Equity, and Marcellus Shale (TEAM) loan program toward the project, which funded in July 2012.

According to Jewel, “We would not have been able to secure financing without SEDA-COG and the SBA”.

For more information about Coffee Run Heat Treating, LLC or Coffee Run Trucking, LLC please give them a call at 717-667-9308 or email them at coffeerunbiz@embarqmail.com.