Hanover sells specialty business Chaucer for $950MWorcester-based Hanover Insurance Group has agreed to sell its specialty insurance business Chaucer to a Chinese company for $950 million. |
Worcester firm to treat OCD with brainwave deviceAchieve TMS East, depression treatment firm with three Central Massachusetts locations using a brainwave stimulation device, now hopes to offer the treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder. |
Primetals to build wire rod mill for Indian manufacturerThe Worcester location of U.K.-based metal mill manufacturer Primetals Technologies has landed a contract with an India-based steel company to build a new wire rod mills next year. |
Maine environmental group opposes Mass. energy transmission project
State House News Service |
An environmental nonprofit from Maine was expected to oppose contracts related to the 140-mile New England Clean Energy Connect transmission project at a hearing Wednesday. |
Biostage to withdraw SEC registrationHolliston biotech Biostage is seeking to withdraw a registration statement with the SEC filed nearly one year ago after no securities had been issued or sold under the statement. |
Trump's tariffs hurting New England economy
JAMES T. BRETT |
The U.S. must work toward a modernized NAFTA and should reconsider the tariffs. |
IPG loses $3B in value Tuesday morningOxford laser manufacturer IPG Photonics saw the values of its shares drop 27 percent on Tuesday morning, eroding $3 billion of its total valuation in a few hours. |
Hologic scores two patent case victoriesMarlborough medical imaging device firm Hologic has scored two legal wins to help protect the company's intellectual property. |
Mass. gas prices down 3 cents as U.S. oil production increasesPrices at the pump are down three cents this week, but remain 59 cents higher than the price at this time last year. |
Their honeymoon startupTwo weeks after their wedding, Dave and Deb LeRiche bought Batch Ice Cream and moved the company from Boston to the LeRiches' New Braintree home. |