Mass Communication From Woods Of Northborough | Small tech firm benefits from defense spending
Lyman Street in Northborough is a nice place for a home, never mind a collection of industrial buildings.
In fact, the thickly wooded area near the Marlborough border almost looks as if it’s rarely traveled. But nothing could be further from the truth.
The street is home to industry giants like FedEx Ground, as well as smaller companies like Microwave Components and Systems Inc.
While MCS employs only 10 people, its products have an impact in some of the most scrutinized and dangerous places around the world.
Radar Range
MCS doesn’t have anything to do with microwave ovens. But other things can benefit, just like your microwave oven does, from microwaves’ ability to deliver large amounts of power while losing virtually none of that power along the way.
Paul Dube, MCS’ vice president, said the company serves a number of industries, but in defiance of the economy, it’s been growing in recent years as the amount of work it does for the military has increased.
The company makes microwave communications equipment that Dube says is unique to the industry.
The company produces a “wave guide” material that is used in radar systems used by the military.
A more familiar application for MCS’ products is the satellite communications equipment aboard a news gathering truck, another significant part of the company’s business.
Dube said the company’s equipment “can carry microwave energy at very low losses and very high power.
The big advantage is the high power handling and the low loss of energy going through there.”
MCS itself hasn’t lost any energy since it was established in 1994. The company’s been growing and moved twice in Marlborough as it grew before moving to Lyman Street in Northborough last April.
“The business is getting better, actually,” Dube said. “We’re going through growth right now with a lot of military contracts.”
Not only that, Dube said the drive to work has improved since the move to quiet, wooded Lyman Street in charming, rural Northborough.
“It’s nice,” he said. “I enjoy coming to work here.”
Just to the North of MCS on Lyman St. is Accusoft Corp., an imaging and data analysis company, as well as the massive FedEx Ground warehouse and distribution center.
That facility has been at the center of the company’s debate with unions over whether FedEx drivers are employees of the company or independent contractors.
Further up the road, you’ll find a facility of San Francisco-based medical supplies company McKesson Corp. and New-corr Packaging, a manufacturer of corru- gated paper materials, such as cardboard boxes.
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