Manufacturing

Fire Equipment Inc., a life safety and fire prevention company headquartered in Medford, announced the opening of a new office located at 30 Glennie Street in Worcester, according to a Wednesday press release.

Even though the LGBTQ+ community represents a significant portion of the Central Massachusetts population, the number of owners who identify their businesses as such remains low.

Geisel Software of Worcester announced on Tuesday it has partnered with Fayetteville State University in North Carolina to perform multi-robot perception research under a NASA grant.

The Reactory Summit, a one-day biomanufacturing conference to be held at the Beechwood Hotel, has been postponed from Oct. 13 to April 6, according to The Reactory’s website.

Cresco Labs, a publicly traded Chicago-based cannabis company operating in multiple states with $476 million in annual revenue, announced on Friday it had completed an acquisition of Cultivate.

A 248,768-square-foot industrial warehouse on Crescent Street in Worcester was sold for $12 million to New York real estate firm Criterion Group LLC, according to the Worcester County Registry of Deeds.

ExaGrid, a Marlborough disk-based backup hardware company, announced Thursday a strategic partnership with German service provider and distributor TIM AG.

MassBio, a not-for-profit organization in Cambridge focusing on the life sciences industry in Massachusetts, appointed State Sen. Joseph Boncore, a Democrat from the First Suffolk and Middlesex District, as CEO in an announcement on Wednesday.

On Aug. 16, WBJ announced its 40 Under Forty, Class of 2021. This year’s class included an array of professionals across many different sectors, including 11 in the region's manufacturing industry.

Christian McMahan, the former president of Wachusett Brewing Co. of Westminster, is teaming up with Tom Oliveri, co-founder of Wormtown Brewery in Worcester, to launch the sixth brewery headquartered in Worcester.