Gelfuso steps down as Chafee Center director
SMITHFIELD – For the third time in the last four years, the John H. Chafee Center for International Business at Bryant University is seeking...
U.S. economic growth last quarter revised up to still-tepid 1.3% annual...
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. economy grew at a lackluster 1.3% annual rate from January through March as businesses wary of an economic slowdown...
Electric Boat awarded $1B contract modification from Navy
PROVIDENCE – General Dynamics Electric Boat, which has a manufacturing facility in North Kingstown at Quonset Point, has been awarded a $1.076 billion contract...
Environment Rhode Island, Kenyon Industries reach settlement on pollution lawsuit
RICHMOND – Following allegations that it violated the Clean Water Act almost 1,800 times over five years, Kenyon Industries and its parent company have...
Impact of U.S. defaulting on its debt will be felt globally
WASHINGTON (AP) – If the debt crisis roiling Washington were eventually to send the United States crashing into recession, America's economy would hardly sink alone.
The repercussions...
Polaris MEP, Chicago nonprofit open manufacturing job training center
PROVIDENCE – Advanced manufacturing training sessions, job placement assistance, English language classes and financial coaching are a few resources now available to residents free...
R.I.’s April unemployment rate remains 3rd highest in New England
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island had the third-highest unemployment rate in New England in April at 3%, down from 3.1% the previous month and below...
R.I. unemployment rate dips slightly to 3% in April
CRANSTON – Rhode Island’s seasonally adjusted unemployment in April was 3%, one-tenth of a percentage point less than March, the R.I. Department of Labor...
ZOLL Medical Corp. settles Trade Agreements Act violation for $400K
PROVIDENCE – A Massachusetts-based medical equipment company will pay $400,000 to resolve civil claims that it sold Chinese-made products that were required to have...
Hexagon presents new manufacturing automation technology at EASTEC
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Stockholm-based Hexagon AB’s Manufacturing Intelligence division, located in Rhode Island, is this week presenting the company’s new automation technology at the...
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