Manufacturing

Framingham renewable energy firm Ameresco was awarded a contract to add a comprehensive battery energy storage system to its existing solar energy facility in Maryland.

The New England Newspaper & Press Association has given nine journalism awards to Worcester Business Journal at part of the 2021 Better Newspaper Competition, honoring stories on the legacy of slavery in Central Massachusetts, housing discrimination in Worcester, and attempts to narrow racial and gender pay gaps.

UN1F1ED² Global Packaging Group, a packaging supplier headquartered in Sutton, purchased a 99,000-square-foot industrial warehouse in Webster for $7.5 million, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.

Worcester Business Journal began listing the most influential people in the Central Massachusetts economy in 2013, using various iterations of the concept to arrive at the Power 50, which started in 2018.

The Power 50 may not necessarily hold the most power in the region, but they are the people who most effectively wielded their power to have an outsized influence on the economy and the community within the last year.

The $110 million in net income is a decrease from the $341 million in profits Boston Scientific earned in the first quarter of 2021, despite revenues increasing to $3 billion from $2.8 billion between the two quarters.

Friday is the last day to submit nominations for Worcester Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty Award.

Worcester Business Journal will host the Manufacturing Summit and Excellence Awards, including a panel discussion on the region’s manufacturing economy, at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester on May 10.

Hologic, the Marlborough-based medical technology company that primarily focuses on women’s health, will close its Danbury, Conn. location, the company announced in its first-quarter earnings report.

Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester will be running two workshops on biomanufacturing for students this spring, thanks to a new $50,000 grant.