Manufacturing

American Superconductor Corp. an energy and power company based in Ayer, announced on Tuesday a partnership with Chicago electric utility Commonwealth Edison Co.

Industrial properties at 119 Herbert St. and 18 Hearth St. in Framingham exchanged hands for the first time since their construction in 1984, selling for $3.15 million on July 26, according to the Southern Middlesex Registry of Deeds .

Less than six months after opening its doors, adult-use Worcester dispensary and economic empowerment applicant New Día’s flagship location will reopen as an outpost of the California-based cannabis company Cookies on Saturday.

Jean McDonough, revered local philanthropist and one half of the duo that grew the Spencer-based adhesive coating manufacturer FLEXcon into the global name it is today, died in her home on Sunday morning at the age of 93, according to her obituary.

Vertically integrated lithium ion battery recycling and manufacturing company Battery Resourcers, based in Worcester, announced on Tuesday that it will open two new pilot plants in Westborough and Michigan.

Metrie, a wood and molding manufacturer, has negotiated a lease that more than doubles its manufacturing space on Bartlett Street in Northborough, according to a Monday press release from Toronto-based real estate agency Avison Young.

Realty company Wheelock Street Capital LLC, with headquarters in Boston and Greenwich, Conn., purchased a 43,000-square-foot office building in Marlborough for $6.9 million, according to the Southern Middlesex Registry of Deeds. 

With the exception of certain municipalities taking the matter into their own hands, the lack of government direction on masks has left individual business owners and management to decide for themselves whether or not to require face coverings.

The former Westminster headquarters of Tyco SimplexGrinnell, a fire security company merged in 2016 with an Irish parent, has been sold to a Needham real estate firm for almost $2.5 million, according to the Worcester Northern District Registry of Deeds.

The Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission has made its medical and adult-use regulations available in Spanish, the regulatory body announced on Monday.