Manufacturing

The building, currently known as the Project Center, is to be renamed to the Laurie A. Leshin Global Project Center, according to the Thursday announcement from WPI.

Wide-ranging marijuana legislation that targets some of the most persistent issues that activists, regulators, businesses and municipalities have said are holding Massachusetts back from realizing the full potential of the 2016 legalization law cleared the Senate unanimously Thursday afternoon.

Solmetex, LLC, a Northborough-based provider of amalgam separators and other waste compliance products for dentists’ offices, acquired Sterisil, a dental product supplier in Colorado specializing in dental unit water line infection control products.

Greatest Hits Cannabis Co., a retail dispensary meshing cannabis and music, will open its flagship location at a 158-year-old mill in Dudley on Tuesday.

A nearly 15-acre property in Grafton’s CenTech Park sold for $3.3 million, about two months after the sale of another large plot in the technology and business park.

What is the name of the Rockwood Sprinkler Co. factory today, which was most recently used as an art gallery?

Now, in its seventh year, the Manufacturing Excellence Awards seeks to accentuate the top performers in a highly complex and varied industry.

A Minnesota-based quartz manufacturer is planning to develop a distribution center at the 32,000-square-foot Milford warehouse it bought for $5.3 million this summer.

BioConnects New England, a multi-state biotech coalition of which Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a member, partnered with Latinos in Bio, a Massachusetts nonprofit focused on creating opportunities for Latinx in biotech industries.

The Women in Manufacturing Association, a nonprofit trade association based in Ohio, elected Sheree Gaus global director of health, safety, and environment at Waters Corp., to the association’s board of directors.