Manufacturing

This year, the number of survey takers predicting economic improvement in 2020 has risen to 54%.

AMSC announced $11 million in orders last week. The orders, from D-Var Statcom system which serves the renewable energy sector in the U.S. and Australia, are expected to provide voltage regulation by responding to varying load conditions while connecting wind power plants to the electric grid, the company said.

Carpe Diem Technologies has inked a deal with the University of Minnesota to commercialize technology from the to print interactive labels able to be put on food, pharmaceuticals, flexible displays and self-powered sensors.

Resinate, the promised fourth marijuana shop in Worcester, can’t sell pot yet, but that didn’t stop CEO Peter DeCaro and more than 100 friends from participating in a ribbon cutting at the 6,500-square-foot Millbury Street dispensary Thursday night.

State marijuana regulators on Thursday eased their ban on vaping product sales.

A former manufacturing facility on Prescott Street in Worcester faces foreclosure auction.

Wormtown Brewery will open its expanded location at Patriot Place in Foxborough on Saturday.

Bay State employers remain optimistic about their prospects, according to confidence index results released Tuesday.

When Central Massachusetts companies look to fill software, programming or research jobs, they’re increasingly looking to foreign labor under an immigrant work program called H-1B.

Fitchburg tool manufacturer Simonds Saw, which had planned to trim operations, has closed on a $5.6-million sale of its site in the city.