Nancy Sutley, chairwoman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, included the company in her three-stop promotion and fact-finding mission in Pennsylvania today in the wake of the president’s proposed American Jobs Act.

Flight Systems remanufactures automotive parts and electronic components such as diesel fuel injection pumps, engine control modules and antilock brake hydraulic assemblies, according to the company.

The company added about 70 jobs in the past three years and sales revenue has grown from about $12 million five years ago to $35 million today, President Mark DiGiampietro said.

The products often are significantly less expensive than new parts and are estimated to have a 75 to 85 percent lower carbon footprint, according to the company.

The process also can help create more jobs than making new items because a greater portion of the costs of remanufactured products goes toward labor compared with raw materials; the opposite is true for manufacturing from scratch, Flight Systems said.

And it is a green industry that has grown without the help of subsidies, DiGiampietro said.

The 40-year-old Flight Systems began as a maker of runway landing lights and products for NASA’s moon missions, DiGiampietro said.

The business evolved, and the remanufacturing of automobile components began many years ago from a single request by a nearby automobile dealer, said Ralph Rulli, vice president and electronics and mechanical business unit manager.

The company is an example of what innovation and creativity can spark to help the community, economy and the planet, Sutley said.

Her other scheduled stops included Grandview Elementary School in Franklin County and the Dauphin County-based Green Center of Central Pennsylvania at Harrisburg Area Community College’s Midtown campus to find out more about green jobs training programs.