Manufacturing

A six-person conference committee is now fully in place and ready in the new year to begin hashing out final details of Massachusetts legislation overhauling cannabis laws.

If the Cannabis Control Commission determines that a licensee has sold less than 70% of what the licensee produced during a review period, then the commission may reduce the licensee's maximum canopy to a lower tier, according to a CCC memo.

UMass Memorial Health will absorb another hospital, and nine other predictions.

CCC was not placed into receivership, no hospital replaced Nashoba Valley Medical Center, and the results of eight other bold predictions for 2025.

Federal policies, particularly around tariffs, will loom over the Central Massachusetts manufacturing industry in 2026.

The past year hasn’t been kind to either the craft beer or cannabis spaces, as a downturn in investor enthusiasm for both sectors and other factors have deterred growth. Despite some hope, headwinds remain.

Marshall is CFO and treasurer at Lantheus Holdings, a publicly-traded pharmaceutical company based in Billerica.

Massachusetts voters in 2026 could have the chance to repeal adult-use recreational marijuana.

Part of the building had been home to a Chuck E. Cheese, which closed in 2020.

Lifeward, a Marlborough-based medical device company, has expanded its global footprint, partnering with a Singapore-based healthcare group to distribute its exoskeleton throughout Mexico, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates.