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Southeastern Mass. manufacturers net $922K in state grants

NORTON – Five manufacturers in Bristol County, Mass., were awarded a combined total of $922,000 in Massachusetts Manufacturing Accelerate Program funding earlier this week. The...

Venterra Group expands marine acoustics services for offshore wind

PROVIDENCE – Venterra Group PLC has expanded its marine acoustic services to include updated noise mitigation technology, online educational resources and animal behavior modeling...

Polaris MEP seeking input for 2024 Voice of Manufacturers survey

PROVIDENCE – Polaris MEP has released a call for responses as it conducts its second Voice of Manufacturers survey, which the organization compiled for...

NEMIC names Maey Petrie as first executive director

PROVIDENCE – NEMIC has named Maey Petrie, formerly director of program management at the life sciences nonprofit, as the organization's first executive director. Petrie joined...

Book company to close Cumberland manufacturing facility

CUMBERLAND – More than 50 Rhode Island employees will lose their jobs as Illinois-based manufacturer Lakeside Book Co. plans to shutter three facilities by...

Australian life sciences center to partner with NEMIC

PROVIDENCE – As Rhode Island pushes to establish itself as a life sciences hub, the New England Medical Innovation Center is seeking to elevate...
LABOR TALKS: Matthew Weldon, second from right, director of the R.I. Department of Labor and Training, speaks during a panel discussion at Providence Business News’ Workforce Development Summit in Providence on Feb. 15. Also on the panel are, from left, Lindsey Brickle, director of workforce and community partnerships at Polaris MEP; Julie Matthew, manufacturing director of Amgen Inc. in Rhode Island; Ara Millette, director of talent acquisition and workforce development at Lifespan Corp.; Nina Pande, executive director of Skills for Rhode Island’s Future; and Douglas Sherman, senior vice president and provost at the New England Institute of Technology. PBN Editor Michael Mello, standing at right, moderates. 
PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Panel: Adaptability is key in today’s job market

Though Rhode Island’s job numbers have largely rebounded to pre-COVID-19 levels, Matthew Weldon, director of the R.I. Department of Labor and Training, doesn’t exactly...
TEST RUN: Jorge Reyes of Providence displays pastries called pastelitos at the Culinary Hub of Providence – CHOP – a workforce training restaurant that’s due to open this spring in the Providence Public Library. Reyes is in the early stages of culinary ­training.
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Building restaurant in Providence library is far from by the book

These days, it’s not so silent in the Providence Public Library. And PPL isn’t unique in that regard – while libraries haven’t completely abandoned quiet...

Bankruptcy doesn’t ground Bird, Spin in Providence

Despite a financially turbulent 2023 for Bird Rides Inc., the electric bike and scooter vendor that has filed for bankruptcy protection is expected to...
AD CONFAB: DDL Advertising LLC owner Stacey Caputi Liakos, right, chats with digital media manager Zach Ferri, center, and Daniel Antunes, a digital marketing associate. Ferri says the use of cookies to track internet users has been evolving, and that change will continue as Google LLC phases out third-party cookies on its browser Chrome. 
PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Marketers prep for Chrome’s cookie phaseout

Do you agree to this website’s cookie policy? Web users likely see a similar prompt daily, if not multiple times per day, as they browse...
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