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Amtrol Inc.

THE STORY: Innovation has been Amtrol Inc.’s M.O. since the company was founded in West Warwick in 1946. The company set the standard in...

Nelipak Healthcare Packaging

THE STORY: Priceless jewelry needs to be kept with care in protective cases, hence why in 1961, Cranston-based Alga Plastics started making thermoformed rigid...
INNOVATIVE ­DESIGN: University of Rhode Island engineering students designed a new scoliosis brace and printed a 1/25-scale model prototype on a 3-D printer. From left, Gabriella Divine, a fifth-year mechanical-engineering and Spanish major from East Greenwich; Chris Viveiros, a mechanical-engineering senior from Attleboro; URI professor Bahram Nassersharif; Dan Cross, a mechanical-engineering senior from Northborough, Mass.; and Thomas Brey, a mechanical-engineering senior from Manville, N.Y. / PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

URI engineering students design new scoliosis back brace

The most common daily brace worn for scoliosis, the Boston brace, was created in the 1970s and remains a go-to solution for physicians treating...
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