Manufacturing

Massachusetts businesses would face smaller increases in taxes they pay to fund the state unemployment system over the next two years, under a new bill Gov. Charlie Baker announced on Friday.

While manufacturing will continue to dominate headlines, the entire industry will reshape in 2021.

In December 2019, no one could have predicted what was to come in 2020. Still, the major trends and news items for the year largely stayed on track. Of the 10 predictions made by the WBJ Editorial Staff for the year, seven came true.

Every December, the WBJ Editorial Staff makes 10 predictions of news events and trends coming in the next year for the Central Massachusetts economy. Here's what they expect to happen in 2021.

Manufacturers of every size and across every industry, here in the Worcester area and elsewhere, are weathering...

Robert Coughlin, who announced his impending resignation as CEO of Cambridge life sciences trade association MassBio on Monday, is leaving his post to become managing director of real estate company JLL’s life sciences sector.

The Massachusetts Manufacturing Extension Partnership, known as MassMEP, has named Kimberly Ingalls, who currently serves on the advisory council for the Massachusetts Emergency Response Team, as its new center director.

Two new commissioners have been appointed to the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission to replace Commissioners Kay Doyle, who resigned in May, and Shaleen Title, whose term expired on Aug. 31 but stayed on as an interim holdover.

South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has given the greenlight to Oxford Immunotec’s T-Cell Select reagent kit, the Marlborough diagnostics company announced on Thursday.

MCR Labs in Framingham was founded eight years ago by Michael Kahn, who decided to take his experience working in the pharmaceutical testing industry and pivot to cannabis.