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Westborough-based Battery Resourcers, a lithium ion battery recycling and manufacturing company, is changing its name to Ascend Elements. the company announced Wednesday.

Framingham renewable energy company Ameresco has won the contract for the Slemon Park Microgrid, a renewable energy project being constructed in collaboration with Prince Edward Island (PEI) Energy Corp. in Canada.

Marlborough medical device company Boston Scientific will receive a 2022 Catalyst Award for its diversity and inclusion efforts.

Athena Health Care Systems, a Connecticut-based healthcare management company, has sold the properties housing four of its six facilities in Central Massachusetts for a total of more than $40 million, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.

A nearly 60,000-square-foot Class A medical office building in Natick sold for $25 million, less than a month after the sale of a 94,000-square-foot chunk of the Natick Mall, which is located across the street.

Interbit Data, a Natick-based software provider for clinicians and hospital staff, announced on Thursday it had appointed Steve McDonald as president.

KPM Analytics Inc., a Westborough scientific instrumentation company,has acquired Bruins Instruments, a manufacturer of near-infrared reflectance and transmission analyzers in Germany.

The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. in Worcester announced on Tuesday it has been named one of “America’s Most Responsible Companies” by the magazine Newsweek.

AquaBounty, the Maynard-based grower of genetically-modified salmon, completed a public offering of common stock with $127.1-million in gross proceeds, according to a letter from the company's CEO to its stakeholders.

A six-acre parcel in Westborough, including the site of closed garden center The Green Thumb, Inc., was sold to a Newton-based car dealer for $2.5 million, according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.