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RED HOT: Heat treater Juan Smith treats pieces of steel at Metallurgical Solutions Inc. in Providence. The company uses controlled heating and cooling processes to change the internal properties of steel to strengthen it and send it back to customers for various applications.
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Meet the Makers: Providence shop bringing new strength to old steel

Editor’s note: This is the 47th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
IN PROGRESS: Co-owner Eric Smallwood works with a product at tableware manufacturer Myrth Ceramics in East Providence.
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Meet the Makers: Myrth Ceramics looks to scale up

(Editor’s note: This is the 46th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
ENVIRONMENTALLY CONCIOUS: In addition to its bird feeders and outdoor products being made in the United States, with all manufacturing taking place at its Warren facility, Aspects Inc. President Trisha A. Torres says the company takes environmental concerns into account, including avoiding chemical-based materials and using sustainable components such as polycarbonate plastic and ultraviolet stabilizers to ensure durable products.
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Meet the Makers: Aspects soaring high after boom in demand for...

(Editor’s note: This is the 45th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s ­unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
A REVIVAL STORY: Jim ­Hamann reregistered the brand Duparquet in 2008. The name dates back to the 1850s when Duparquet, Huot & Moneuse Co. was a leading manufacturer of commercial ranges and copper cookware. Hamann’s company makes new cookware and restores old cookware, too. 
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Meet the Makers: Copper shop revives Gilded Age craft for modern...

(Editor’s note: This is the 44th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s ­unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
STURDY PROTECTION: CakeSafe LLC co-owners Scott and Juli Chapin with some of their wedding cake transport boxes, which can keep cakes in place even when tipped on their side.
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When it comes to cakes, they’re very protective

Juli and Scott Chapin set out to solve a nagging problem with her wedding cake business, but the solution eventually turned into a solid...
CUSTOM DESIGN: Jon Backner, left, vice president and chief financial officer at jewelry box and packaging manufacturer Fuller Box Co. in Central Falls, and Tom Mercer, vice president of sales, show off one of the company’s products.  
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MEET THE MAKERS: Customer service, flexibility keep Fuller from getting boxed...

(Editor’s note: This is the 42nd installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
HANDIWORK: Tool maker Bobby Bianca operates a milling machine on the production floor at Warwick Hanger Co. in Westerly. 
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MEET THE MAKERS: Westerly factory specializes in crucial, mostly concealed, construction...

(Editor’s note: This is the 41st installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s ­unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
AN INTERESTING YARN: Victoria Teixeira, a barrier weaver at Murdock Webbing Co. in Central Falls, works the machinery on the production floor. 
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Meet the Makers: Murdock Webbing carves niche in woven fabrics industry

After the death of ­NASCAR super­star Dale Earnhardt in a crash at Daytona International Speedway in 2001, preventing a repeat occurrence became the focal...
CHILLING: Robert Swift, owner and president of East Bay Ice Co. in East Providence, is pictured with some of the ice blocks the company produces. Swift says his company is unique, as it’s one of about four or five block ice plants left in the United States.
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Meet the Makers: An ice factory that refuses to melt away

(Editor’s note: This is the 39th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
TRIAL AND ERROR: Alejandro Martinez, Mearthane Products Corp.’s marketing director, shows some experimental moldings in the company’s development lab inside its Cranston headquarters. 
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Meet the Makers: Moment of ingenuity helped Mearthane to continue rolling

In more ways than one, Cranston-based Mear-thane Products Corp. has proved to be the ultimate spinoff company over the last 60 years. The company was...
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