Manufacturing

Daniel Stroe and his business partner, Timothy Adler, bought the building last year for $700,000 and are now deep in the process of converting it into 47 apartments, known as the Stamp Factory Lofts.

It isn’t heavily dependent on tourism or conventions, and it has relatively few hotel rooms. It isn’t home to any casinos and doesn’t host headquarters for any major airlines, energy companies, automakers or cruise lines, among others who have been hardest hit.

Worcester's Killeen Manufacturing has bought a former F.W. Webb building on Sword Street in Auburn for $2.5 million.

Spencer manufacturer FLEXcon donated emergency supplies to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester on Wednesday, joining ranks with other Central Massachusetts businesses who are stepping up to support local hospitals dealing with the COVID-19 crisis.

Holliston biotechnology firm Harvard Bioscience, Inc. has developed a new technology to provide researchers with real-time access to aerosol amounts deposited inside subjects' lungs, the company said in a press release.

In Washington, D.C., federal lawmakers and the White House appear to be approaching agreement on a coronavirus economic stimulus package worth nearly $2 trillion and for many in the finance world, it can't come soon enough.

The impact of the efforts to limit the spread of coronavirus hit hard and fast in the Central Massachusetts economy.

Resinate, the fourth marijuana dispensary planned for Worcester, will open on Tuesday after receiving final approval to open by the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission.

The Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce on Friday joined the Corridor 9/495 Regional Chamber of Commerce in calling on businesses to donate needed medical supplies as healthcare agencies are fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

The network, launched in March, enables MEPs in any state to put out a call on behalf of one of its manufacturers to find creative solutions to issues like supply shortages.