Manufacturing

GE Healthcare's U.S. pharmaceutical diagnostics team, which has its headquarters in Marlborough, announced Thursday it will add 70 employees at the Marlborough office.

In a move company officials said was meant to send a message to anyone infringing on their patents, Northborough’s Aspen Aerogels has sued an Italian company for patent infringement related to the import and sale of aerogel products from China.

Milford life sciences company Waters Corp. reported $148.1 million in profits for the company’s first quarter of 2021, according to an earnings report released Wednesday.

A 36.1-acre parcel of farmland previously home to Red’s Farm Stand in Westborough has sold for $6.1 million.

The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources released updated guidance on Wednesday making way for more than 70,000 acres belonging to its Agricultural Preservation Restriction and Farm Viability Enhancement programs to be used to grow cannabis and hemp.

Wormtown Brewery in Worcester is launching a new hard seltzer line slated to hit shelves on Monday, the brewer announced last week.

The Commonwealth Cannabis Co. of Millis, more commonly known as CommCan, will become the cultivation, manufacturing and distribution partner for San Francisco cannabis, CBD and non-hallucinogenic mushroom company Cookies.

Boston Scientific reported a first quarter turnaround with profits rising from $11 million in the quarter in 2020 to $327 million this year.

Hologic saw massive revenue growth in the second quarter of the year, but the company’s earnings per share missed the expected mark and sent the firm’s stock tumbling nearly 8% since the earnings report Wednesday afternoon.

Mass. Bay Brewing Company Co-founder and President Dan Kenary and Brewers Guild Executive Director Katie Stinchon spoke with WBJ about how Hop Forward evolved from a job fair to a resource center, the website’s goals, and related programming on deck for the coming months.