Monica Benevides

Marlborough contract manufacturing organization Web Industries Inc. announced in June it would boost its COVID-19 test production equipment output by hiring 125 skilled equipment operators, engineering personnel, bio scientists, quality assurance, purchasing and inventory specialists at its Holliston facility, while also investing millions in lateral flow immunoassay product development and production equipment.

The Commonwealth Cannabis Co., known by most as simply CommCan, is a family and woman-owned business based in Millis and experiencing tremendous growth in a nascent industry, at a time when multi-state operators have moved into Massachusetts and aimed to dominate the legal marijuana market.

Mercury Wire in Spencer bills itself as a diverse manufacturing organization. 

The Southbridge cutlery manufacturer now known as Dexter-Russell has been in business for more than 200 years, and the company certainly learned a lot along the way.