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MARIA VELEZ, left, and CEO Navyn Salem check food packages as they move along the production line at the Edesia plant in North Kingstown. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Edesia to receive portion of $200M to relieve child hunger

Manufacturing 05/07/2024

NORTH KINGSTOWN – Since 2022, Edesia has nearly doubled the number of children its "ready-to-use therapeutic food" can reach globally. With a recent allocation of...

THE HONOREES of PBN's inaugural 25 Over Fifty-five event stand before Aldrich Mansion in Warwick on Thursday. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Inaugural 25 Over Fifty-five honorees feted for achievement, contributions

PBN Award Winners 08/23/2019

WARWICK – Corporate and entrepreneurial success were on display Thursday evening for 275 attendees at Providence Business News’ first 25 Over Fifty-five event held...

PBN C-Suite Awards 2019 special section

PBN Award Winners 04/26/2019

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LARGER SPACE: Edesia, a maker of food products for customers such as UNICEF that ship goods overseas to feed malnourished children, outgrew its original facility in Providence and made the move to the Quonset Business Park in North Kingstown in 2016, opening an 83,000-square-foot, high-tech factory. From left, Executive Director Maria Kasparian, founder and CEO Navyn Salem and HMI Controller Jorge Campos work in the factory.  / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

How much growth is left at Quonset?

Capital Goods 03/29/2019

Steven J. King rolls up in a company-issued sport utility vehicle to a graveled construction site in a wooded area, at the end of...

People, not machines, key to manufacturing success

Capital Goods 03/15/2019

The popular image of manufacturing is big machines making big things. But nothing could be further from the truth, as the profiles of the...

PBN Manufacturing Awards 2019 special section

PBN Award Winners 03/15/2019

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A RECORD CROWD of more than 320 attended the sixth PBN Manufacturing Awards program, held at WaterFire Providence's headquarters in the Valley neighborhood of the city. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Record crowd attends PBN Manufacturing Awards program

Manufacturing 03/14/2019

PROVIDENCE – A crowd of more than 320 manufacturing industry leaders attended Providence Business News’ sixth Manufacturing Awards program Wednesday at WaterFire Providence’s Valley...

PBN names Manufacturing Awards winners

Manufacturing 02/01/2019

PROVIDENCE – Michael Brandmeier, president and CEO of Toray Plastics (America) Inc., has been named the winner in the Strategic Leadership category of Providence Business...