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After its busiest year ever, Natick-based manufacturer Cognex Corp. said its momentum might be starting to slow down.

HSGS-Ameresco, LLC has been awarded a $7.9-million contract to design and construct a new solar energy system for the U.S. Army.

Central Massachusetts manufacturers must rise to meet demand and the challenges of the current crisis, using innovation and partners, according to a slate of experts at Worcester Business Journal's Central Mass Manufacturing Summit & Awards event Thursday at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester.

A New York-based rail system construction company has been fined $220,000 to resolve allegations it failed to pay proper overtime rates to workers on public works projects in Framingham, Cape Cod, and the Berkshires, the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General announced Tuesday.

MutualOne Bank in Framingham promoted its long-time head of commercial lending, Brian Ledwith, to executive vice president and chief lending officer, the bank announced Tuesday.

The president and CEO of Marlborough biotech company Phio Pharmaceuticals Corp., Gerrit Dispersyn, is stepping down from his role, the firm announced Thursday.

Developer Wood Partners is proposing a 276-unit mixed-use complex on a 4.5-acre parcel in Marlborough and will hold a public hearing on the proposal Monday.

A property on Worcester’s Fremont Street, which is part of a marijuana cultivation project, sold for $2 million in a deal closed Friday, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.

The University of Delaware and the Milford-based Waters Corp. will launch a new innovation and research laboratory for the company on the university’s campus. 

Framingham renewable energy firm Ameresco was awarded a contract to add a comprehensive battery energy storage system to its existing solar energy facility in Maryland.