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Baker-Polito Administration Announces Over $2 Million to Support Massachusetts Manufacturers
FALL RIVER, MASS. — The Baker-Polito Administration today announced the first round of grants from the new Massachusetts Manufacturing Accelerate Program (MMAP), awarding $2,157,416 to 13 manufacturers from across the Commonwealth. The grants were announced by Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy and were managed by the Center for Advanced Manufacturing at MassTech Collaborative (CAM).
Read MoreAIM Photonics and Spark Photonics Team Up to Develop Hands-on Educational PIC Chip
Spark Photonics, a MadeinMA commercial photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design house and AIM Photonics have teamed up to develop a new educational PIC chip! The chip and kit are entirely designed, developed, manufactured, and distributed in the U.S., providing new hands-on learning for integrated photonics.
Read MoreWPI Becomes a Member of 12 of the 16 Manufacturing USA Institutes
WPI has earned a coveted position as a member of 12 of the 16 Manufacturing USA institutes, with centers that cut across multiple disciplines.
Read MoreABCorp Expands Library of Materials for Additive Manufacturing
BOSTON, Nov. 30, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Banknote Corporation (ABCorp), one of the longest-standing manufacturing service providers in the U.S., announced the expansion of their Boston-based Center of Excellence capabilities. ABCorp adds Nylon 11 (PA11) to the catalog of cutting-edge materials at the Additive Manufacturing Center (AMC) in Boston MA.
Read MoreBaker-Polito Administration Awards $2.3 Million in Manufacturing Innovation Funds
LOWELL – Yesterday, the Baker-Polito Administration announced a new $2.3 million grant to Lowell-based composites manufacturer Specialty Materials, Inc., an award from the Commonwealth’s Massachusetts Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (M2I2). The award will support the expansion of Specialty’s production of its boron-based composite materials, materials widely used in aerospace, sporting goods, and industrial applications to strengthen products. The M2I2 grant will support a project that will nearly triple the size of the Specialty Material’s manufacturing capability, adding an additional 75 employees and $6 million per year of spending in Massachusetts.
Read MoreMerrow Manufacturing Expands Fall River, Massachusetts, Operations
MassDevelopment provided a $1 million equipment loan from the CARES Act Revolving Loan Fund to Merrow Manufacturing to support the company’s first phase of a major expansion and buy equipment, in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Read MoreNEXTFLEX: Scaling Workforce Readiness Through Manufacturing Expertise
The COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected US employment, with a significant impact on the manufacturing sector. According to Deloitte’s recent “2021 manufacturing outlook,” US manufacturing faces a long recovery to match its post-2008 recession momentum. And, as we recover, manufacturing may never look the same, with companies adapting to hybrid work environments and expecting more agility from the workforce.
Read MoreLeominster’s AIS Celebrates National Manufacturing Month
LEOMINSTER — Massachusetts-based AIS, the largest manufacturer of commercial office furniture and seating in New England — a historic area where factories and mills ushered in the American Industrial Revolution some 200 years ago — celebrated national Manufacturing Month during October by honoring the region’s manufacturing legacy and championing modern practices and opportunities.
Read MoreAmazon Opens New Robotics Manufacturing Facility in Massachusetts
Amazon announced the opening of a new first-of-its-kind robotics manufacturing facility in Westborough, Massachusetts. The new facility will expand Amazon Robotics manufacturing capability in the U.S. and Amazon’s growth in the region—and has created over 200 new manufacturing jobs in Massachusetts.
Read MoreMaking Health and Motion Sensing Devices More Personal
Scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Massachusetts General Hospital’s (MGH) Center for Artificial Intelligence (CPAI) created a toolkit for designing health- and motion-sensing devices using something called “electrical impedance tomography (EIT),” a fancy word for an imaging technique that measures and visualizes a person’s internal conductivity. (EIT is typically used for things like observing lung function or detecting cancer.)
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