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Report: Hasbro began discussing move to Mass. six months ago

PAWTUCKET – Hasbro Inc. CEO Chris Cocks and Mass. Economic Development Secretary Yvonne Hao began discussing the move of the Rhode Island-based toy maker’s...
PROVIDENCE BUSINESS NEWS has named 24 honorees for its 2024 Manufacturing Awards program.

Marquis, Williams among 24 honorees for PBN’s 2024 Manufacturing Awards

PROVIDENCE – Dave Marquis, president and co-owner of Lincoln-based ChemArt Co., has been named the 2024 Strategic Leadership Award winner for Providence Business News’...

Dockworkers’ union suspends strike until Jan. 15 to allow time to...

DETROIT (AP) – Some 45,000 dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports are returning to work after their union reached a deal to suspend...

Riley Power Group to lay off additional 13 R.I. employees

NORTH KINGSTOWN – After revealing plans in August to layoff 117 workers, Riley Power Group, a North Carolina-based maintenance and construction company that does...

REGENT Craft details ‘key step’ for Seaglider passenger trials

NORTH KINGSTOWN – REGENT Craft Inc. has taken "a key step forward" in bringing its Seaglider product to market, the company announced on Tuesday, with...
REGENT CRAFT INC. on Monday was awarded $4 million in combined funding and tax incentives from R.I. Commerce Corp. / COURTESY REGENT CRAFT INC.

REGENT Craft Inc. gets OK for $4M more in incentives from...

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Commerce Corp. board on Monday awarded REGENT Craft Inc. $4 million in combined financing and tax incentives in anticipation of...

Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike, a...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation that...
GETTING A LIFT: Joshua Holt, founder and president at Orbit Motion Systems in Bristol, demonstrates a suction-cup device that can be used to pick up items. The device is normally attached to an Orbit robotic arm for automated lifting tasks. Behind him is his wife, Jennifer Holt, the company controller. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Meet the Makers: Orbit assembles plan to focus on R.I.

(Editor’s note: This is the 25th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...

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Bristol County manufacturers net $600K in state grants

FOXBOROUGH – Three manufacturers in Bristol County, Mass. were awarded a combined  $600,000 in Massachusetts Manufacturing Accelerate Program's latest funding cycle, each receiving the maximum...
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