Greenwood Industries has acquired an East Hartford, Conn. roofing company in a move that grows the Worcester company's workforce by 71 employees while expanding its Connecticut presence.
In a push to spur redevelopment of the Worcester Auditorium, the city and Preservation Worcester will open the moth-balled building's doors this August to tours.
While foreclosures overall in Massachusetts hit their 28th month of increases in June, Middlesex County reserved that trend and posted a year-over-year decline of 5.1 percent.
The Worcester economy has bounced back to a sluggish end to 2015 with a second strong quarter, with the area adding jobs and the unemployment rate dropping to 4.5 percent, according to the Worcester Economic Index (WEI).
Worcester-based Primetals Technologies announced last week that it shipped a car part manufacturing machine to a Chinese steel producer, in the first modernization of that Asian facility's operations in nearly 20 years.
Cape Medical Supply has acquired New England Medical Homecare of Auburn as the Sandwich-based company expands into Worcester County and the Central Massachusetts market.