Manufacturing

Clean energy company Ameresco, headquartered in Framingham, announced on Tuesday it has entered into a $43-million energy performance contract with the U.S. Coast Guard for a battery energy storage system project at Training Center Petaluma in California. 

Eight women from around Central Massachusetts have earned the honor this year.

After 40 years of vacancy, the 1-million-square-foot Draper Mill facility is being demolished, leaving Hopedale with the chance to completely reinvent itself.

The National Science Foundation will provide $1 million to continue to fund drying technology innovations at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, according to a Wednesday press release from WPI.

Central Massachusetts is home to a wide range of manufacturing companies, including healthcare, industrial, and technology. Here are the five largest manufacturers in the region when ranked by number of local employees, according to surveys completed by the WBJ Research Department.

The range of substances that are slowly coming to be more widely known as "forever chemicals" are often used in the manufacturing of pizza boxes, candy wrappers, bakery bags and other food storage containers.

Collaborative workspace in Central Massachusetts cumulatively received more than $209,000 in grants through the latest round of funding from the state’s Collaborative Workspace Program.

Construction of a 130,000-square-foot distribution center for Goya Foods broke ground in Webster, according to a Wednesday announcement from Boylston construction contractor RP Masiello, Inc., which is performing the work.

Marlborough medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific announced on Wednesday it has entered into an agreement to buy Baylis Medical Company Inc. for an upfront payment of $1.75 billion.

Wormtown Brewery in Worcester named in August the first-ever president in the company’s 12-year history, former Tree House Brewing Co. officer manager Kimberly Golinski.