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Meet the Makers

TOTAL PACKAGE: Wardwell Braiding Co. Vice President John Tomaz points to one of the company’s braiding machines on its factory floor in Central Falls. Wardwell not only designs, builds and sells the machines, it also produces and provides replacement parts and performs repairs.
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Meet the Makers: Wardwell woven into success of customers all over...

Meet the Makers
(Editor’s note: This is the 23rd installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
ARTISTIC PIECES: Lead designer Marci Szurley holds a mahjong tile that she hand-painted for board game manufacturer Crisloid Inc. in Providence.
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Meet the Makers: Despite changing how it operates, local board game...

Meet the Makers
(Editor’s note: This is the 22nd installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
HOT ITEM: José Nunez Pichardo pours a bucket of salsa into a container at the Plants to Food LLC manufacturing facility in Lincoln, one of the company’s most popular products.
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Meet the Makers: Manufacturer helps companies turn plants into food

Meet the Makers
(Editor’s note: This is the 21st installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
SUSTAINABLE SHIFT: Dane Sheldon is the director of business development for AquasGroup in East Providence, which began by designing wastewater management systems for use by other manufacturers, and while it still makes these systems, the company has become more focused on developing water purification, recycling, recovery and storage systems.
PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Meet the Makers: AquasGroup helps other manufacturers clean up their acts

Meet the Makers
(Editor’s note: This is the 20th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
SMOOTH OPERATOR: 
Steven Alviti Sr. next 
to Bel Air Finishing 
Supply Corp.’s 
products. 
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MICHAEL SALERNO

Meet the Makers: Bel Air focuses on finishing with a flourish

Meet the Makers
(Editor’s note: This is the 19th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
LUNCH BREAK: Wright’s Dairy Farm considers its 200 cows employees of the company. Some of the cows enjoy some feed in a barn on the 400-acre farm, which has been operating for more than a century. 
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Meet the Makers: Land of milk and ice cream

Meet the Makers
(Editor’s note: This is the 18th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
PLETHORA OF PALLETS: ­Atlas Barrel and Pallet Inc. President Heather Ross says there are hundreds of different kinds of pallets built at the Burrillville company to meet whatever the customer needs.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Meet the Makers: A history of helping with the heavy lifting

Meet the Makers
(Editor’s note: This is the 17th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
BENEFICIAL TOY: James Stallman, president of Eco Global Manufacturing LLC in Providence, with one of its products, a toy foam dinosaur.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Meet the Makers: Bringing a little fun back into manufacturing

Meet the Makers
(Editor’s note: This is the 16th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
MAKING IT WORK: Randy Snow, vice president of jewelry maker Snow Findings Co. in Warwick, says part of the reason he got into the industry and took on the family business, founded by his grandfather in 1951, was to learn from his father, who was the owner and operator before handing the reins over to his son, and to preserve and continue what his family had built over the years.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Meet the Makers: In R.I.’s jewelry sector, Snow Findings is a...

Meet the Makers
(Editor’s note: This is the 15th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
BIO-BONES: Carol Dancer, president of Absorbent Specialty Products LLC in Pawtucket, visits the manufacturing floor, where a fake skeleton, known as Ling Ling, is covered with the company’s Bio-Bone prosthetics, used to fill cadavers for funerals after organs and bones have been donated.
PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Meet the Makers: A manufacturer with a super absorbing history

Meet the Makers
(Editor’s note: This is the 14th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s ­unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
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