{"id":2401,"date":"2026-05-11T10:46:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.adamswp.com\/client\/sn2026\/2026\/05\/11\/sba-chief-loeffler-tours-canonsburg-business\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:11:05","slug":"sba-chief-loeffler-tours-canonsburg-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adamswp.com\/client\/sn2026\/2026\/05\/11\/sba-chief-loeffler-tours-canonsburg-business\/","title":{"rendered":"SBA chief Loeffler Tours Canonsburg Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

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See Original Article Here:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.observer-reporter.com\/news\/local-news\/2026\/may\/07\/sba-chief-loeffler-tours-canonsburg-business\/<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Or<\/p>\n

Touts small business as \\’critical\\’ to American economy<\/h2>\n

CANONSBURG<\/strong> \u2013 Former Georgia senator and current Small Business Administration Chief Kelly Loeffler visited Steel Nation Inc. in the borough Wednesday afternoon during a multi-state tour in celebration of National Small Business Week.<\/p>\n

Loeffler\u2019s tour to tout the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to boost locally owned small enterprises across the county also includes stops in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, North Carolina and Georgia.<\/p>\n

National Small Business Week kicked off on Monday with a White House event where President Donald Trump commended the Small Business Administration\u2019s (SBA) ongoing work, saying that in the U.S., \u201csmall business is big business,\u201d according to Loeffler.<\/p>\n

Before touring Steel Nation\u2019s headquarters in Canonsburg, Loeffler stopped by the SBA Pittsburgh District Office annual award event at the Bella Sera Event Villa off Morganza Road.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited we can honor these incredibly deserving award winners, and small businesses everywhere,\u201d Loeffler said following a networking luncheon with local leaders.<\/p>\n

During a media engagement following a meeting with Steel Nation executives and employees, Loeffler said that small businesses are key to continued economic growth for the country, with small businesses contributing about half the nation\u2019s annual gross domestic product.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you think about small businesses, how critical they are to American industry, construction, manufacturing, energy, and then the hard-working men and women that work here, it\u2019s incredible to see,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Steel Nation President Mark Dooley thanked Loeffler for her interest in his business, where approximately 45 employees manufacture a range of pre-fabricated steel structures and power infrastructure mainly for the oil and gas extraction industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen (Loeffler) talked about energy and sustainable energy, we help provide that with our products and services,\u201d Doole said.<\/p>\n

Loeffler concluded her appearance with an optimistic message for small business owners who are concerned about market instability due to the sudden jump in oil prices.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe conflict right now, we\u2019re two months in, it\u2019s a short-term conflict. We think that\u2019s going to have a near-term resolution \u2026 we\u2019re poised for gas prices to come down at the conclusion of this conflict and stay down,\u201d Loeffler said. \u201cIt would be really great for small businesses to know that natural gas and oil shipping lanes are not any longer held hostage by a terrorist government that can at any time inflict pain on the world\u2019s energy markets.\u201d<\/p>\n

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See Original Article Here: https:\/\/www.observer-reporter.com\/news\/local-news\/2026\/may\/07\/sba-chief-loeffler-tours-canonsburg-business\/ Touts small business as \\’critical\\’ to American economy CANONSBURG \u2013 Former Georgia senator and current Small Business Administration Chief Kelly Loeffler visited Steel Nation Inc. in the borough Wednesday afternoon during a multi-state tour in celebration of National Small Business Week. Loeffler\u2019s tour to tout the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to boost locally owned small enterprises across the county also includes stops in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, North Carolina and Georgia. National Small Business Week kicked off on Monday with a White House event where President Donald Trump commended the Small Business Administration\u2019s (SBA) ongoing work, saying that in the U.S., \u201csmall business is big business,\u201d according to Loeffler. Before touring Steel Nation\u2019s headquarters in Canonsburg, Loeffler stopped by the SBA Pittsburgh District Office annual award event at the Bella Sera Event Villa off Morganza Road. \u201cI\u2019m excited we can honor these incredibly deserving award winners, and small businesses everywhere,\u201d Loeffler said following a networking luncheon with\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adamswp.com\/client\/sn2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adamswp.com\/client\/sn2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adamswp.com\/client\/sn2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adamswp.com\/client\/sn2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adamswp.com\/client\/sn2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adamswp.com\/client\/sn2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adamswp.com\/client\/sn2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions\/2465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adamswp.com\/client\/sn2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adamswp.com\/client\/sn2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adamswp.com\/client\/sn2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adamswp.com\/client\/sn2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}