Meet the Makers: An ice factory that refuses to melt away

CHILLING: Robert Swift, owner and president of East Bay Ice Co. in East Providence, is pictured with some of the ice blocks the company produces. Swift says his company is unique, as it’s one of about four or five block ice plants left in the United States.
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS
CHILLING: Robert Swift, owner and president of East Bay Ice Co. in East Providence, is pictured with some of the ice blocks the company produces. Swift says his company is unique, as it’s one of about four or five block ice plants left in the United States.
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

(Editor’s note: This is the 39th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the economy and, in many cases, our way of life. See previous installments here.) On an early November day, most activity at East Bay Ice Co. is confined to the brick building

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