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Applying to work for a Fortune 500 company? The odds are pretty good that you'll be subject to drug testing before hire. And there's a decent chance that Acton-based Psychemedics Corp. will conduct the test.
The U.S. military's embattled F-35 program is a matter of significance for the entire country, with a promise to replace thousands of aging fighter planes and a budget of $1.45 trillion over the next 50 years.
Notable numbers from the recent manufacturing report out of Northeastern University clearly spell out the significant changes the sector has gone through in Massachusetts over the last four years.
It sounds like the setup line for a joke: What do the driver of a hybrid bus, a sustainability coordinator and an electronics recycler have in common?
SMALL BUSINESS PRAISE
When the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University released a report last month measuring the health of manufacturing in Massachusetts, industry champions had reason to feel encouraged.
Industrial employment dropped less than 1 percent in Massachusetts between August 2011 and August 2012, but increased 1.5 percent in Central Massachusetts, according to a report by Illinois-based Manufacturers' News.
Siemens VAI Metals Technologies said it will supply a Chinese steelmaker with a wire rod mill that will help expand annual production by more than 30 percent.
Raytheon Co. of Marlborough has received an $8.7-million addition to a previously awarded contract that will supply the U.S.
Siemens VAI Metals Technologies, which has a facility in Worcester, has won a deal that will supply a new wire rod mill to a Chines
Boston Scientific of Natick has agreed to buy a Minnesota company that makes catheters to treat chronically blocked coronary arteries.
A sheet metal manufacturer in Milford has bought the building from which it has been operating for the last two years, according to the company that brokered the transaction.
Manufacturing has taken a hard hit over the last decade but there are signs that it's making a modest comeback across Massachusetts, according to a manufacturing report card released by Northeastern University last week.
Although its sales benefitted from a rebound in manufacturing activity, Athol-based tool maker L.S. Starrett Co., saw its profits fall in fiscal year 2012, thanks to a higher pension liability.
A new report out today shows optimism for the manufacturing industry in Massachusetts, which has shown significant growth since 2009.
Radant Technologies Inc., a Stow-based maker of radar domes, reflectors and antennas, has leased nearly 59,000 square feet in Clinton, according to Hackman Capital and Calare Properties.