Tag: Blount Boats Inc.
Meet the Makers: Warren shipyard has navigated the waters of boat-building...
Sisters Marcia and Julie Blount grew up watching their father, Luther Blount, sketch boat designs on napkins. Those sketches became real vessels at Blount...
Lepovsky, Spencer among 21 honorees for PBN’s 2025 Manufacturing Awards
PROVIDENCE – Tom Lepovsky, vice president of manufacturing for Pawtucket-based Teknor Apex Co., has been named the 2025 Strategic Leadership Award winner for Providence Business News’...
Meet the Makers: Warren shipyard has navigated the waters of boat-building...
(Editor’s note: This is the 27th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
Blount Boats gets $937K from Maritime Administration
WARREN – Blount Boats Inc. was awarded $937,933 Friday from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration’s Small Shipyard Grant Program.
The award will help...
R.I. shipyards chosen to build vessels for regional offshore wind projects
PROVIDENCE - Two Rhode Island shipyards have been selected to build the boats that will transport workers out to sea during construction and maintenance...
Quality jobs can be landed in design across many industries
There is a big demand for young people in the manufacturing sector for sure. But some of those jobs are not about making products,...
NEIT SAMI program a valuable resource for local employers
In a job at a sports bar and arcade, Otto Fernandez reached the ceiling of possibility for advancement in pay and title.
He learned of...
Steel Yard artisans meld art, function
Walking along a city street in Rhode Island, you do a double-take, smile, maybe nudge a companion and point to a trash can or...
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