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TIGHTKNIT OPERATION: Employee Maria Monteiro works on a rug at Rhody Rug Inc.’s manufacturing facility in Lincoln. The company produces 1,500 braided rugs per week and supplies hundreds of rug dealers nationwide, says President Scott Weldon.
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Where braided rugs are rolling out the door by thousands

(Editor’s note: This is the seventh installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s ­unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
UNCHARTED TERRITORY: Bill Krarmer is the president of US Extruders Inc. in Westerly, which recently applied for an R.I. Commerce Corp. grant to work on recycling old fishing nets as plastic material for new products.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Starting over hasn’t curbed manufacturer’s desire to improve, innovate

(Editor’s note: This is the sixth installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s ­unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
MAN AND MACHINE: Joseph Matthews, president of Maxson Automatic Machinery Co. in Westerly, explains the features of a sheeter, a piece of precision manufacturing equipment that Maxson produces for other companies. 
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A CUT ABOVE: Maxson’s precision machines keep other manufacturers in business

(Editor’s note: This is the third installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
METALHEAD: P. Thomas Kenny Jr. pours melted zinc into the casting machines at Miniature Casting Corp. in Cranston. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

MEET THE MAKERS: A growth story that contains millions of die-cast...

(Editor’s note: This is the second installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
PRECISION MEASUREMENTS: Jade Manufacturing Co. Vice President Chris Burch, left, and Quality Manager Ronald Olf with the company’s Spectrum coordinate measuring machine, which uses computer-controlled probes to verify three-dimensional measurements.
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BUILDING BLOCKS: Jade components play crucial role in defense, aerospace tech

Don Boyle picks up a palm-sized model of the Apollo 11 lunar lander from Jade Manufacturing Co.’s conference table and smiles as he looks...
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