Milford

Milford-based Waters Corp., a manufacturer of laboratory instruments, on Wednesday announced the opening of its Joint Open Laboratory in Beijing. Outfitted with Waters' chromatography and mass spectrometry technologies, the analytic laboratory will be jointly operated by Waters and the Chinese Pharmacopeia Commission (ChP), according to a company statement. It is expected to serve as one of China's national technical support centers in the field of Chinese pharmaceutical standards, Waters said.

Edward J. Kelly, the president of Milford Regional Medical Center, will also become the CEO of the health care organization in 2016, Milford Regional announced Thursday.

Medical device manufacturer SeraCare Life Sciences of Milford has been slapped with a $6,621 penalty over alleged violations of state hazardous waste management regulations, the Mass. Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced. During a May 2014 inspection, DEP personnel determined that SeraCare stored hazardous waste for longer than allowed, failed to properly label hazardous waste containers, clearly designate its hazardous waste accumulation area and keep a record of inspections conducted on its hazardous waste accumulation area, a DEP statement said.

Several Central Mass. organizations were among the 28 community hospitals to receive awards totaling $60 million from the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC), it announced on Wednesday.

Milford-based laboratory instrument manufacturer Waters Corp. reported an 8-percent jump in sales for the third quarter and a 15-percent rise in net income as the company cited broad-based demand from pharmaceutical companies for its products.

Consigli Construction of Milford, which is managing the construction of a new elementary school in Connecticut to replace the site of a gunman's fatal rampage in 2012, has broken ground for the 87,000 square-foot state-of-the-art Sandy Hook School, the company announced Tuesday.

Independent Bank Corp., the parent of Rockland Trust Co. which operates branches in Bellingham, Franklin and Milford, reported third-quarter net income of $15.7 million.

Data-storage giant EMC Corp. of Hopkinton held merger talks with technology giants Hewlett-Packard and Dell within the last year as it faced pressure from shareholders, The Wall Street Journal reported today. The Journal said EMC held on-again, off-again discussions with officials from Hewlett-Packard and, while those talks appear to be off now, it's not clear whether they will begin again. As for Dell, the WSJ cited people familiar with talks between the two firms, adding that it's not clear what the status of those talks are.

Saying it has been unable to raise capital to continue operations, cardiac and vascular medical device company PLC Systems Inc. of Milford has proposed merging with a California company and selling its RenalGuard operations to a debtholder, according to a statement and a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Shareholders will vote on these measures at an annual, special meeting of shareholders at the Doubletree Hotel in Milford on Sept. 18, the company said last week.

Reliant Medical Group of Worcester and Southboro Medical Group are looking to merge, potentially creating an organization of more than 300 physicians that would serve about 300,000 patients throughout Central Massachusetts, the organizations announced Tuesday.