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RHODE ISLAND’S seasonally adjusted unemployment in December was 4.6%, unchanged since August, the R.I. Department of Labor and Training says. / AP FILE PHOTO/LYNNE SLADKY 

R.I. monthly unemployment stays at 4.6% in December

CRANSTON – Rhode Island’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in December was 4.6%, remaining unchanged since August, the R.I. Department of Labor and Training said...
THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND Research Foundation and Polaris MEP have received a $3.9 million federal Good Jobs Challenge grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to support the local entities’ Ocean Tech Works initiative.

URI Research/Polaris MEP’s ‘Ocean Tech Works’ initiative receives $3.9M federal grant

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island Research Foundation and Polaris MEP have received a $3.9 million federal Good Jobs Challenge grant from...
ATTENTION TO DETAIL: Gorilla Gaming co-owner Gretel McCrory works on the factory floor at the Warwick gaming table manufacturer. The company’s attention to detail has caught the eye of big players in the gambling industry, including signing a deal in 2017 to be the official poker table of the World Series of Poker
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Meet the Makers: Warwick poker table maker has played its cards...

(Editor’s note: This is the 28th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
FEELING THE LOVE: Amgen Rhode Island employees hold up heart hand gestures during International Women’s Day at the West Greenwich manufacturing facility. 
COURTESY AMGEN RHODE ISLAND

Amgen Rhode Island makes belonging an exact science

PBN Diversity Equity & Inclusion 2024 Awards MANUFACTURING: Amgen Rhode Island AT AMGEN RHODE ISLAND, an environment of inclusion fosters innovation, which then drives the company’s...

Polaris MEP partners with Pawtucket Foundation to hold manufacturing forum

PAWTUCKET – Polaris MEP and the Pawtucket Foundation are partnering to present “The Pawtucket Manufacturers’ Forum” to gather feedback directly from local manufacturers about 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 continue what his family had built.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Finding ways to remain a fixture

PBN Manufacturing Awards 2024 MEET THE MAKERS: Snow Findings Co. DECADES AGO, when Rhode Island was commonly called the jewelry manufacturing capital of the world,...
BUILDING BLOCKS: Eco Global Manufacturing LLC President James Stallman and manufacturing associate Milagros Ruiz show some of the company’s foam building blocks it now produces after purchasing New York-based Imagination Playground in 2018.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Bringing fun back to manufacturing

PBN Manufacturing Awards 2024 MEET THE MAKERS: Eco Global Manufacturing LLC JAMES STALLMAN KNOWS a little something about survival. He can remember running through the...
WHERE IT STARTS: Cathryn Kennedy, food operations manager at Wright’s Dairy Farm Inc., walks through a cow barn at the North Smithfield farm. As many as 200 cows produce the milk that farm employees process, pasteurize and either churn into ice cream or bottle. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

The ‘Wright’ place for milk, ice cream

PBN Manufacturing Awards 2024 MEET THE MAKERS: Wright’s Dairy Farm Inc. CATHRYN KENNEDY MAKES her way past one of the barns at Wright’s Dairy Farm...
SHOWING OFF: Steven Alviti Jr., Bel Air Finishing Supply Corp. vice president and sales manager, demonstrates one of the company’s ­machines that deburr and polish intricate parts. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Finishing with a flourish

PBN Manufacturing Awards 2024 MEET THE MAKERS: Bel Air Finishing Supply Corp. RALPH ALVITI HAD a simple request of his son, Steven, back in the...
SUSTAINABLE SHIFT: Dane Sheldon is the director of business development for AquasGroup in East Providence, which has become more focused on developing water purification, recycling and storage systems.
PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Helping manufacturers clean up their act

PBN Manufacturing Awards 2024 MEET THE MAKERS: AquasGroup IT’S A DOCTOR’S JOB to safely insert medical devices into patients and before they reach the operating...
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