Manufacturing

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester announced on Thursday it is launching the Translational Institute for Molecular Therapeutics, a center which will focus on gene therapy clinical trials for rare genetic diseases.

Marlborough medical device and diagnostics manufacturer Hologic, Inc. was ranked first in several categories of the 2021 IMV ServiceTrak Mammography Imaging Awards released Wednesday.

New England Money Handling Systems, an automated equipment provider for the financial sector based in Hopkinton, entered into an agreement for cybersecurity services with Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a business unit of the Waltham-based Raytheon conglomerate. Raytheon Intelligence & Space, based in Arlington, Virginia, has a plant in Marlborough.

Framingham renewable energy company Ameresco, Inc. has completed a $160 million street light modernization project in Chicago, the company announced in a press release Wednesday. 

Hopkinton-based Dell EMC, a subsidiary of Texas electronics manufacturer Dell Technologies, sold a 52,700-square-foot Milford property it had used as a training center for $1.7 million.

Precision Optics Corp., Inc., a Gardner-based optical instrument manufacturer, announced on Thursday that it received a $1.5-million production order from a defense/aerospace company.

Milk Room Brewing Co., located at Alta Vista Farm in Rutland, is building a new taproom, the company announced in a January Facebook post.

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While organized labor has historically been hallmarked by the male-dominated trades, unionized women seem to be fueling a new era in the movement, particularly in industries highly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic like health care, education, and hospitality.

In its annual The Boardroom Gap investigation of gender diversity in the region’s business leadership, WBJ found 37% of executives & board members are women, unchanged from 2021.