Manufacturing

A first-of-its kind lithium-metal battery recycling process may be on the horizon as SES AI will fund a two-year research initiative at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to develop the new technology. 

Swinford is the CEO of Numotion, a Tennessee-based wheelchair and mobility equipment company. Numotion has 150 storefronts in the country, including a location in Worcester.

The move will not impact the Wachusett brand, said Kevin Brick, vice president of regulatory and community affairs for Utz.

Just as cannabis businesses are gearing up for the holiday known as 4/20, an unofficial celebration of marijuana where dispensaries see some of their largest crowds of the year, eleven companies in Central Massachusetts received $430,000 from the first grants from the Massachusetts Cannabis Social Equity Trust Fund.

Following the owner’s retirement, the former Costello's Truck Service & Repair location on Southwest Cutoff in Worcester has been sold to AAA Northeast. 

For the burgeoning life sciences hub that is Central Massachusetts, Governor Maura Healey’s $3.5-billion Mass Leads Act economic development proposal looks to add fuel to fires.

An industrial flex building in Holliston has been sold for $3.15 million to Quilling Card, a Framingham-based producer of greeting cards.

The U.S. Department of Energy credits, combined with the other federal and private funds, will assist the company to begin production at the facility faster, said Jason Mortimer, Electric Hydrogen’s senior vice president of global sales.

McGovern Auto Group has opened its 75,000-square-foot McGovern Collision Center in Shrewsbury.

The joint venture will own and operate two planned EV battery recycling plants, with one in Poland and the other in Germany.