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CONNECTED AND CONNECTING: Lynn Baril’s job as Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co.’s chief technology officer is to keep the firm online, flexible and on the leading edge, although not the bleeding edge, according to Managing Director Alan H. Litwin. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

CTO’s knack keeps firm functioning

Lynn Baril | Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co. Ltd., chief technology officer Lynn Baril, chief technology officer at Providence-based accounting firm Kahn, Litwin, Renza &...
THE CAREER ACHIEVER honoree for the 2017 C-Suite Awards program, Enzo Rebula, addresses the crowd at the Omni Providence Hotel Thursday.

FM Global founding exec leads C-Suite Award winners event

PROVIDENCE – Enzo Rebula, who as head of human resources was charged with knitting together four companies into what would become FM Global, received...

C-Suite talent sees need for top teams

Providence Business News held its second C-Suite Awards celebration this past week. As all of PBN’s eight recognition programs do, the C-Suite Awards honor...

PBN names 2017 Business Women honorees

PROVIDENCE – Margaret M. “Peg” Van Bree, president of Rhode Island and Hasbro Children's Hospital, has been named the Career Achievement winner in the...
HANDS-ON: Anne-Marie Rosario Flores, owner of Anne the Plumber in Woonsocket, works in the basement of a house on Penn Street in Providence with her nephew, Jarrett Flores, an apprentice plumber. / PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Unafraid of bias, Anne the Plumber cleaning up

There was the iconic Rosie the Riveter, a fictional woman munitions worker of World War II. Then came Lillian Baumbach, recognized in the 1950s...
ASTRONOVA CEO AND PRESIDENT Gregory A. Woods delivers remarks to attendees of PBN's fourth Manufacturing Awards event, held at WaterFire Providence's new Valley neighborhood headquarters. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Manufacturing Awards honorees focus on communication as keys for innovation, growth

PROVIDENCE – More than 300 manufacturing industry leaders turned out for Providence Business News’ fourth Manufacturing Awards recognition event on Thursday, held appropriately at...
GETTING IT RIGHT: Taco Comfort Solutions burn-table operator Paul Pavao checks connections at the company's Fall River facility. Safety procedures in place have allowed the plant to go more than nine years without losing a day to work-related injury. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Workplace injury not part of the plan at Taco

At Taco Comfort Solutions, safety isn't something that's assumed or taken lightly. The Cranston-based, third-generation, family-owned, high-efficiency heating, cooling and air-quality comfort systems manufacturer...
PROCESS ORIENTED: A mechanical-engineering class from Roger Williams University tours VIBCO in Richmond, with spokesman P.J. Dougherty Jr., right, explaining the process the company uses to produce its many product lines. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Understanding that every action produces a reaction

VIBCO Inc. isn't a Rhode Island native – having been founded in 1962 in New Jersey. But the Richmond manufacturer has put the Ocean...
A LEAP FORWARD: From left, Don Gray and Joseph Schuttert, company principals, and Jessica Weimar, operations manager, look over schematics at Vaccum Processing Systems' East Greenwich facility. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Doing more with less, and leaving a clean trail

Many of the toxic chemical solvents that industries tossed into landfills years ago – creating the need for expensive federal cleanup efforts by the...
MARKETS BEYOND THE BAY: While FarSounder uses Narragansett Bay for most of its testing, CEO Cheryl Zimmerman, above with senior electrical engineer Matthew Coolidge, says that exports represent 85 percent of product sales. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Marine technology a vessel to make the world’s ships safe

FarSounder Inc., a Warwick-based manufacturer of real-time 3-D sonar systems for the marine-transportation sector, is achieving its global ambitions. Its high-tech acoustic sensors keep...
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