Manufacturing

The machines in here don’t look like the old science classrooms or even the classrooms we see in movies. Instead, it’s sterile and more like a command center. These machines aren’t for experimentation; they’re to see if your experiment works.

Ascend Elements in Westborough has reached an agreement with Koura Global to provide the United Kingdom-based company with up to 5,000 metric tons of recycled and recovered materials from lithium-ion batteries, enough to support the production of 1 million electric vehicles per year.

Westborough-based KPM Analytics acquired Utah-based Smart Vision Works, a company that creates systems using artificial intelligence to sort objects by size and defects for agriculture and food companies.

Wisconsin-based packaging firm Quad/Graphics Inc. will close its Leominster Packaging plant by April 29, resulting in approximately 60 layoffs.

A half dozen craft breweries in Framingham, Marlborough, Worcester, and throughout Central Massachusetts are creating and selling female-driven beers in March in support of Women’s History Month and the nonprofit The Pink Boots Society.

Ascend Elements and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. reached an agreement to extend their collaboration on recycled lithium-ion batteries for Honda’s electric vehicles in North America.

Marlborough medical device company Candela Corp. has received clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to use the company’s laster system to treat Melasma, a skin condition frequently arising during pregnancy, among other times.

AiM Medical Robotics in Worcester announced on Wednesday it has appointed Gregory Fischer as the company’s new CEO.

The Massachusetts Manufacturing Extension Partnership has partnered with CONNEX Marketplace to provide Massachusetts manufactures an online platform for them to connect with suppliers and buyers.

A host of environmental and consumer protection groups are lined up behind legislation that would take a two-pronged approach to PFAS: ban their use in most products to prevent new contamination, and create new programs to clean up contamination that already exists.