Manufacturing

Marlborough medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific Corp. has entered into an agreement to sell its BTG Specialty Pharmaceuticals business for $800 million in cash.

Riverdale Mills Corp., a welded wire mesh manufacturer in Northbridge, was awarded the John McArthur Community Commerce Innovation Award from the Venly Institute in Cambridge, the company announced Nov. 24.

Two Central Mass. companies have received nearly $800,000 in grant funding from the Industrial Rail Access Program, which aims to enhance rail and freight access, the Gov. Charlie Baker administration announced on Nov 19.

National clean energy company Nexamp, which maintains an office in Sturbridge, has won a customer acquisition award from the Northeast Clean Energy Council, the company announced in November.

A Sutton packaging company, which has four sites in Central Massachusetts and others abroad and nationally through affiliates, has paid $9.5 million for a 383-acre site straddling the Millbury and Sutton town lines.

Technocopia, a Worcester Polytechnic Institute alumnus-founded nonprofit makerspace and incubator in Worcester’s downtown, is recruiting for new board members as part of a board expansion, the organization announced on Tuesday.

State regulators gave final approval Monday morning to new regulations that will reshape the legal marijuana industry to include home delivery with an initial period of exclusivity for participants in its Social Equity Program and economic empowerment applicants, capping off a rocky and delayed policy-setting process.

King Street Properties, a Boston development firm that bought three Devens sites this year, is planning a $500-million life sciences complex in a major boon to the former military base.

Hologic has won U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for an HIV test the Marlborough manufacturer says is the first in the country that can be used for both diagnosis and viral load monitoring.

New weekly unemployment claims in Massachusetts have reached their highest levels in more than six months, with some industries that had initially been relatively spared, including manufacturing and education.