Acton

The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) has awarded $980,000 to Acton biotechnology startup Excellims Corp., which will provide the company with working capital to fund commercialization efforts, the MLSC said.

Psychemedics Corp. of Acton reported a 9.5-percent gain in revenue for the first quarter, as the maker of highly sensitive drug tests prepares to move into the Brazilian market later this year.

Video software maker SeaChange International of Acton ended its 2014 fiscal year with a 7-percent drop in revenue and a loss of slightly more than $3 million, ending what its CEO called a “transitional” year, the company said Thursday.

Framingham-based Parsons Commercial Group Inc. said it brokered two new leases at 40 Nagog Park in Acton.The...

Watertown-based optical detection and analysis company Dynasil Corp. returned to profitability in the first quarter of 2014, following the sale of its lead paint and medical products businesses.

Sales and profits soared at Psychemedics Corp. of Acton in the fourth quarter of 2013.

Maryland-based W.R. Grace & Co. paid more than $63 million Wednesday to resolve claims for environmental cleanups at 39 sites across the country, including its former Acton plant where the company manufactured chemicals from 1954 to 1982.

Swedish firm Ericsson has agreed to acquire Acton-based Azuki Systems Inc., a video software maker, according to a statement issued Thursday.

Lowell-based Enterprise Bancorp Inc., which has branches in Acton, Fitchburg, Leominster and Westford, reported annual net income of $13.5 million for 2013, a 9-percent increase over 2012, in a milestone year for loan growth, according to an earnings statement.

InfoTree Investment LLC has purchased the building at 30 Nagog Park in Acton for $1.17 million according to the broker, Marlborough-based O'Brien Commercial Properties Inc.