Qblox Plans Canton, Massachusetts, Operations
Quantum technology company Qblox plans to establish operations in Canton, Massachusetts.
Quantum technology company Qblox plans to establish operations in Canton, Massachusetts.
Food manufacturer Pulmuone Foods USA plans to expand its operations in Ayer, Massachusetts.
RNAi therapeutics company Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. plans to expand its operations in Norton, Massachusetts.
Draper, an independent nonprofit engineering innovation firm, plans to establish operations in Lowell, Massachusetts. The project is expected to create 150 jobs.
France-based Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a biopharmaceutical company, has established operations in Marlborough, Massachusetts. The project is expected to create 120 jobs.
Helfrich Brothers Boiler Works, a full-service commercial boiler company, plans to expand operations in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The project is expected to create 75 jobs over the next three years.
Bisousweet Confections plans to renovate and buy equipment for its new 20,000-square-foot facility in Leominster, Massachusetts. The project is expected to create 50 jobs over the next five years.
23 Farrar Street LLC, a textile manufacturing business and affiliate of Soliyarn Inc., plans to establish its headquarters and production facility in Lynn, Massachusetts. The project is expected to create 84 jobs over the next three years.
City Fresh Foods, the only minority- and employee-owned, minority-led food service company, will buy and renovate an 18,000-square-foot building in Boston, Massachusetts. The project is expected to create 85 jobs over the next five years.
Cape Seafoods, Inc. will expand its operations and workforce at the Jodrey State Fish Pier in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The project is expected to create eight jobs.
Phosphorex, a drug delivery-focused contract development and manufacturing organization providing microspheres and polymer and lipid nanoparticles, will build a 30,000-square-foot-facility and establish cGMP manufacturing capabilities in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
Accumet Engineering, Inc., an advanced processing manufacturer, plans to consolidate and expand its existing operations with a 39,375-square-foot manufacturing facility in Devens, Massachusetts.
Watson-Marlow, a company that specializes in high-quality fluid management solutions for the life sciences and process industries, will build a new 150,000 square foot state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Devens, Massachusetts. The project is e
Beeken Biomedical, a life sciences company that commercializes products that advance the field of bleeding control, will expand operations at its facility in Stoughton, Massachusetts.
OPT Industries, a manufacturing technology startup, opened a 14,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Medford, Massachusetts. The location will help the company scale market access to RAMPTM, the first roll-to-roll 3D printing platform that allow
Arranta Bio, a leading microbiome contract development and manufacturing organization, expanded operations with the addition of a 130,000-square-foot facility in Boxborough, Massachusetts. The location, which will complement the company’s existing fa
Bristol Myers Squibb is constructing a new 244,000 square foot cell therapy manufacturing facility in Devens, Massachusetts. The company plans to hire several hundred employees over the next few years to support the new operations.
Segue Manufacturing Services, a global contract manufacturer specializing in complex electro-mechanical integration, cable and harness assembly and engineering services, completed its operations expansion in Billerica, Massachusetts.
The nation's largest provider of pre-clinical vivarium, husbandry, and research space, Explora BioLabs will launch its first East Coast facility in Boston, Massachusetts.
FUJIFILM Corporation will invest $40 million in FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies, a world leading Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization for biologics, viral vaccines and viral vectors, to establish a new process development and manufac
Tegra Medical, a medical device manufacturer, is expanding facilities in New England and the South, with the purchase of an additional building across the street from its Franklin, Mass. headquarters and expansion of its campus in Hernando, Mississippi.
Dive Technologies, Inc.,a company that designs and manufactures novel, state-of-the-art Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, which currently leases space in Quincy and at the Berkshire Innovation Center in Pittsfield, plans to open a new manufacturing facility in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Swiss-based CRISPR Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company focused on creating transformative gene-based medicines for serious diseases, is building a new cell therapy manufacturing facility in Framingham, Massachusetts.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, is expanding capacity for viral vector development and manufacturing services with construction of a new commercial manufacturing site in Plainville, Massachusetts.
Hasbro, Inc, a global play and entertainment company, and Cartamundi, the worldwide manufacturer of playing cards, trading cards and board games, plan to produce 50,000 face shields a week for front-line health care workers over the next several weeks at the Cartamundi facility in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts.
Koch Separation Solutions, a Wilmington, Massachusetts-based global leader in membrane filtration and ion exchange technology, is expanding the manufacturing capacity of its innovative PURON reinforced hollow fiber membrane technology by 50 percent.
Sencorp Thermoforming, the Cape Cod, Massachusetts-based division of SencorpWhite, a leading manufacturer of thermoforming equipment, reported it can modify its thermoforming machines to form face masks for the medical professionals combating the Covid-19 pandemic.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, opened its new $90 million viral vector CDMO (contract development and manufacturing organization) site in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Amazon plans to build a new state-of-the-art Amazon Robotics innovation hub and create 200 tech and advanced manufacturing jobs in Westborough, Massachusetts.
Sheaumann Laser Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of semiconductor lasers, announced its ownership has purchased a 57,800 square foot building located at 5 Federal Street in Billerica, Massachusetts.
Columbia Tech, the capital equipment contract manufacturing subsidiary of Coghlin Companies, expanded its large scale integration capabilities with the addition of a new facility in Westborough, Massachusetts.
Energetiq Technology, a world leader in high brightness broadband light sources, opened its new facility, north of Boston, in Wilmington, Massachusetts.
FLEXcon Company, Inc., an innovator in adhesive coating and laminating, and its affiliate, Blueshift Materials, a pioneer in the development of polymer aerogels, reported Blueshift has moved its production and product development operations to FLEXcon’s campus in Spencer, Massachusetts.
Cedar’s Foods, a producer and co-manufacturer of “hommus,” a product better known by its traditional western spelling hummus, is nearing completion of its 125,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art facility in Ward Hill, Massachusetts.
Lampin Co., an employee-owned precision component manufacturer, will expand operations with the addition of a second Tsugami B0326 turning and milling machine in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.
The duMONT Company and Hassay Savage Company, western Massachusetts-based manufacturers of precision broaching tools, and HYE Partners, a real estate entity affiliated with the two companies, plan relocation and expansion in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Cirtec Medical Corporation, an outsourcing partner for complex medical devices, acquired Metrigraphics, LLC, a leading manufacturer of ultra-high precision, custom micron-scale circuits and components for medical devices and other critical applications, in Lowell, Massachusetts.
A Joint Venture of New Mill Capital Holdings of New York, Odyssey Real Estate Capital of Las Vegas and Joseph Finn Co. of Boston acquired the former Ardagh Group glass plant in Milford, Massachusetts. The companies plan to design a 330,000 square foot warehouse and distribution campus.
Piaggio Fast Forward, a subsidiary of Piaggio Group, will be expanding its footprint so that all future gita carrying devices will be designed and assembled in Boston, Massachusetts.
Aerogel Technologies is constructing the world’s first pilot plant for volume production of large, mechanically robust polymer aerogel panels and films, to be built in Boston, Massachusetts.
MassDevelopment issued a $350,000 equipment loan to assist in the expansion of Atomic Coffee Roasters, a family-owned coffee company in Boston, Massachusetts.
Radant Technologies Division of Communications & Power Industries opened a new radome manufacturing facility in Hudson, Massachusetts.
The Taunton Development/MassDevelopment Corporation sold 11.3 acres at the Myles Standish Industrial Park expansion project in Taunton, Massachusetts, to Rhino Capital Advisors LLC, a real estate investment firm.
Siemens, a global innovator in low and medium voltage technologies plans to acquire Hingham, Massachusetts-based Russelectric with additional facilities in Broken Arrow. Oklahoma,, a leading U.S. manufacturer of power control systems including paralleling switchgear and automatic transfer switches.
EVIO Inc., a leading provider of cannabis testing and scientific research for the regulated cannabis industry in North America, reported its lab has engaged in a Community Host agreement and will relocate to the City of Framingham, Massachusetts. The lab will move to a 5,000 square foot facility that is centrally located to serve marijuana establishments statewide.
Adlai Nortye Ltd., a China-based globally-focused biopharmaceutical company dedicated to becoming a leader in developing effective therapies for cancer treatment and unmet medical needs, opened its first United States Innovation Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
Pexco LLC, a leading North American specialty plastics extruder, expanded its portfolio with the acquisition of Custom Extrusion, Inc., a profile extruder with facilities in Sheffield, Massachusetts, and Asheboro, North Carolina.
A global supplier of hermetic packaging, components and services, Hermetic Solutions Group reported it has expanded with the acquisition of Sinclair Manufacturing, an industry leader of glass-to-metal seal components for the microelectronic packaging industry, in Chartley, Massachusetts.
Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics has opened a new life sciences laboratory on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, dedicated to application testing of single-use systems, with a focus on the cell and gene therapy market.
Greentown Labs opened its Global Center for Cleantech Innovation at 444 Somerville Avenue in Somerville, Massachusetts. The 100-year-old, fully renovated facility has expanded Greentown Labs into a 100,000 sq. ft. campus that's home to 80 member companies, cementing the incubator's position as the largest hardware-focused cleantech incubator in the United States.
MassDevelopment, the state’s finance and development agency, partnered with BayCoast Bank to provide The Livestock Institute of Southern New England Inc., a nonprofit that supports the livestock industry, with loan financing to build a state-of-the-art, USDA-inspected slaughterhouse and processing facility called Meatworks in Westport, Massachusetts.
Bay State Wind, the 50-50 partnership between Ørsted, a global leader in offshore wind, and Eversource, New England’s premier transmission builder, entered into an agreement with EEW, the international market leader in steel pipe manufacturing, to open facility to manufacture offshore wind components.
LakePharma, Inc., the leading US-based biologics company specializing in antibody and protein engineering, cell line development and protein production, launched its LakePharma MicroBiomanufacturing Center in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
The 186-year-old Fitchburg, Mass-Based Simonds International and 115-year-old Eugene, Oregon-based Burton Saw merged into Wood Fiber Holdings, in a transaction that the companies report will create the leading producer and marketer of cutting tools and related equipment for the primary wood fiber industry.
Brammer Bio, a best-in-class cell and gene therapy contract development and manufacturing organization, completed renovations and opened its late-stage clinical capacity and commercial-ready cGMP manufacturing site in Cambridge, Massachusetts, designed for gene therapy products.
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics that designs, develops, manufactures and services the world's most technologically advanced business-jet aircraft, will construction of a new maintenance facility at Van Nuys Airport near Los Angeles, California, and establish a Field and Airborne Support Teams unit in the Boston, Massachusetts, area.
Theragnostics, Ltd., a radiopharmaceuticals company developing products for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, announced a mutual distribution and manufacturing agreement with ROTOP Pharmaka GmbH. Theragnostics also announced the opening of its U
Toyota Motor Corporation and Mazda Motor Corporation signed a joint venture agreement to build a $1.6 billion assembly plant somewhere in the United States.
The Luye Life Sciences Group, a pharmaceutical company in China with its medical services sector, Luye Medical, headquartered in Singapore, opened its R&D Center, in the Boston suburb of Woburn, Massachusetts.
Nitto Denko Avecia Inc. will open of its new oligonucleotide API (active pharmaceutical ingredients) manufacturing facility in Milford, Massachusetts.
Cox Engineering Company and related affiliates, a Canton business that designs, fabricates, and installs HVAC piping and sheet metal ductwork, will renovate a 73,000-square-foot building into a manufacturing center in Randolph, Massachusetts. The company invested $9.5 million in this project, which is expected to create 20 full-time jobs.
Siemens began a major expansion of its separately managed Healthineers manufacturing and R&D laboratory diagnostics division in Walpole, Massachusetts, that is expected to create up to 700 new high-tech jobs over the next 10 years.
NEO Tech, a provider of manufacturing technology and supply chain solutions for brand name OEMs in the industrial, medical, aerospace and defense markets, plans to combine its two existing New England locations into a single centrally-located facility in Westborough, Massachusetts.
MassDevelopment provided a $2.5 million Emerging Technology Fund loan to Lexington Medical Inc., a developer of abdominal surgical devices, located 24 miles west of Boston in Billerica, Massachusetts.
Cogmedix, a wholly owned subsidiary of Coghlin Companies Inc., and a leading medical device engineering and manufacturing services company, is near completion of a renovation project at its Worcester, Massachusetts facility, located at 17 Briden Street.
Siemens Healthineers will invest around $300 million in its Walpole, Massachusetts, laboratory diagnostics manufacturing and research and development facility.
Mayhew Basque Plastics leased 131,871-square feet of production space in the 685,000-square-foot Route 2 Commerce Park building complex to open a world-class production and distribution center at 100 Simplex Drive, in Westminster, Massachusetts.
Wembly Enterprises acquired Bradford Industries, Inc., a Lowell, Massachusetts-based producer of coated fabrics & textiles.
J.C. Cannistraro, the area’s largest mechanical construction firm, will relocate and consolidate its manufacturing and warehousing operations to Boston’s Seaport District.
In mid-July, PwC released its Q2 2016 Manufacturing Barometer, which surveyed senior executives at U.S.-based industrial manufacturing firms to determine their assessment of the direction of the nation’s economy, as well as their projections for thei
Cushman & Wakefield has announced that U.S. industrial markets absorbed a record-setting 70.1 million square feet (msf) of space in the second quarter of 2016, up 6.0 percent from the same period a year ago, and resulting in year-to-date absorption o
Jarvis Surgical plans to expand its production facility in Westfield Massachusetts, with assistance of a state loan.
OwlStamp Visual Solutions, a full service printer and manufacturer of signs, large format graphics, engraved items, awards and rubber stamps, plans to expand its operations center in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Notch Taproom LLC, an affiliate of Notch Brewing Inc., is expanding its microbrewery, adding a new brewing system and tanks for a taproom under construction near Pickering Wharf in Salem, Massachusetts.
Pfizer began construction on a more than $200-million, 5-story, 175,000 square foot biologics clinical manufacturing plant in Andover, Massachusetts. The facility, which will be used to manufacture complex biologics and vaccines, is projected to open by January 2019.
HighRes Biosolutions, a leading provider of laboratory automation products, started construction on the company's new state of the art, 80,000 sq. ft., headquarters facility and operations hub at 102 Cherry Hill Park in Beverly, Massachusetts.
The Department of Defense will create a new Defense Innovation Unit Experimental for the eastern United States in Cambridge, Mass. DIUx East will create a hub for collaboration between DoD and innovative companies to identify and leverage cutting-edge technologies, business practices, and ideas from unique sources.
Bianco & Sons Inc., a meat and sausage producer, will expand its production plant by relocating to a 29,200-square foot facility at 1 Brainard Avenue in Medford, Massachusetts.
Web Industries, Inc., a provider of precision contract manufacturing and converting services, opened the company's first lateral flow immunoassay production facility co-located within the company's existing location in Boston, Massachusetts.
MassDevelopment sold Little Leaf Farms, about 14 acres of land at the state’s 4,400-acre former military installation property in Devens, Massachusetts, for a greenhouse production facility. Devens, Massachusetts, is an Enterprise Zone in the towns o
CeQur, a leader in simple insulin infusion for people with diabetes, is doubling the size of its Marlborough, Mass., production facilities in preparation for the launch of its PAQ three-day insulin infusion device.
MassDevelopment issued a $5,267,500 tax-exempt bond on behalf of Finicky Pet Food in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a firm that processes fish for the pet food industry, enabling the company to expand the use of solar energy in its production process.
MC Assembly, a leading mid-tier electronics manufacturing services provider, is expanding its manufacturing presence in the Billerica, Massachusetts’ high technology business hub.
Investcorp, a leading provider and manager of alternative investment products, in four separate transactions through its U.S.-based real estate arm, acquired a portfolio of office and industrial properties in the metropolitan areas of Atlanta, San Francisco and Boston for approximately $400 million.
Deacon Giles Inc., plans to open a microdistillery in Salem, Mass., where co-founders Ian Hunter and Jesse Brenneman plan to distill rum and gin using traditional recipes.
North Eastern Bus Rebuilders, Inc., the largest bus rebuilder in the Northeast, launched operations in Boston, Massachusetts. with a major contract to support the operations on the new bus fleet recently purchased by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority.
J&G Foods, Inc., a custom fresh meat provider specializing in organic and grass fed beef, Australian lamb, organic chicken, natural pork and beef, and a variety of marinated meats, greatly expanded packaging capacity at its plant in Sutton, Massachusetts.
China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation began construction on a $60 million, 220,000 square foot, railcar manufacturing hub, situated on 40-acres along Page Boulevard in Springfield, Massachusetts. The company initially expects to hire a minimum of 1
Advanced Cable Ties, a manufacturer of cable ties and wiring accessories, plans to build a 42,300-square-foot addition for manufacturing, warehouse, and office use in Gardner, Massachusetts.
Prolamina Corporation, a leading North American packaging company that serves the food, medical and specialty markets, began a major renovation of its Westfield, Massachusetts manufacturing facility.
A U.S. corporation formed from a joint venture between Liesenfeld International GmbH and leading window manufacturer Menck Fenster GmbH of Hamburg, Germany, Menck Windows located its new manufacturing facility for custom, finely crafted, energy-efficient windows and doors in Chicopee, Massachusetts.
Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety services to a wide range of industries, is expanding laboratory space and tools to further enhance its material testing capabilities in Grand Rapids and Plymouth Michigan, as well as at its facility in Pittsfield Massachusetts, to service multiple industries.
35 Green Street LLC, an affiliate of Hoff’s Kitchen Co., also known as Hoff’s Bakery, will acquire and renovate a 100,000-square-foot building to create a state-of-the-art food manufacturing plant in Malden, Massachusetts, one of the designated economic redevelopment target areas around Boston known as Gateway Cities.
MassDevelopment issued a $280,000 Export Equipment Loan with a $196,000 Export Guarantee for Newburyport Brewing Company, a craft brewery near downtown Newburyport, Massachusetts.
MassDevelopment issued a $175,000 revolving bridge loan from the Emerging Technology Fund to Dynamo Micropower Corporation. Located in Somerville, Massachusetts, at Greentown Labs, Dynamo Micropower Corporation is a privately-held developer and manufacturer of fuel-flexible micro-turbine based power generation systems for the oil and gas industry.
N12 Technologies, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., plans to purchase tooling and lab equipment that will enable the firm to develop commercial-scale manufacturing of its advanced carbon nanotube materials. The project, with assistance from a $2.5 million loan issued by MassDevelopment’s Emerging Technology Fund, is expected to create 25 jobs.
Lampin Corporation of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, a critical component manufacturer, will invest more than $1.3 million on new capital equipment and state-of-the-art machining systems at its manufacturing facility.
Cenveo, Inc. opened state of the art Envelope showcase, production and distribution facilities in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania and Chicopee, Massachusetts.
Premier Fence, a company that installs and sells fencing, decking, and outdoor living products, will utilized MassDevelopment bonds to build a production facility off of Route 138 in Canton, Massachusetts. The new facility will include factory, office, and showroom space.
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