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Landry/French Construction to build $135M manufacturing expansion at Brunswick Landing
Tina Fischer Updated: September 24, 2025Mölnlycke Health Care, a Swedish manufacturer of wound-care products, will add a 78,000-square-foot addition to its plant at Brunswick Landing.
Tina Fischer Updated: September 24, 2025
Swedish wound-care manufacturer breaks ground on $135M expansion at Brunswick Landing
Tina Fischer September 23, 2025Mölnlycke Health Care, which makes bandages and wound dressings used in hospitals and acute care facilities, expects to complete the 78,000-square-foot factory expansion at the Brunswick Landing industrial park in 2027.
Tina Fischer September 23, 2025
With pending sale of Kennebec River dams, Sappi urges caution about potential removal
Laurie Schreiber Updated: September 24, 2025Decommissioning or removal is part of a transaction involving four dams. Paper company Sappi says Shawmut Dam’s removal would jeopardize its Skowhegan mill.
Laurie Schreiber Updated: September 24, 2025
Maine manufacturers plan October show-and-tell
Tina Fischer Updated: September 19, 2025The Manufacturers Association of Maine and the Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership are teaming up on the month-long campaign with events across the state.
Tina Fischer Updated: September 19, 2025
New Balance set to open 120,000-square foot expansion of Skowhegan factory
Tina Fischer September 18, 2025Boston-based New Balance has just completed a $65 million, 120,000-square-foot addition to its athletic footwear factory in Skowhegan.
Tina Fischer September 18, 2025
York County boatbuilding school launches workforce development program
Laurie Schreiber September 18, 2025The Landing School launched the program as a corporate philanthropy initiative designed to invest in the next generation of marine trades professionals.
Laurie Schreiber September 18, 2025
Made in Maine: North Spore mushroom company is expanding its reach
Alexis Wells Updated: September 22, 2025The company, which is based on Riverside Drive in Portland, offers a range of products for mushroom cultivation, including grow kits that are pre-packaged for home use.
Alexis Wells Updated: September 22, 2025
Lewiston-based Elmet Technologies wins $5.1 million Navy contract
Laurie Schreiber Updated: September 9, 2025Elmet is the largest U.S.-owned producer of tungsten and molybdenum materials and products, with three U.S. facilities, including a Lewiston site.
Laurie Schreiber Updated: September 9, 2025
Newsworthy people and performances for Sept. 8, 2025
Updated: September 8, 2025A roundup of new hires, promotions and achievements at businesses, nonprofits, health care institutions and professional services firms in Maine.
Updated: September 8, 2025
Maine snack attack: Startups aim to take bite out of $173 billion US market
Renee Cordes Updated: September 8, 2025In a state known for its agriculture and culinary offerings, innovative startups including Harvest Maine, Singing Pastures, Maine Canned Fish and Maine Crisp are making their mark in the fast-growing healthy nibbles niche.
Renee Cordes Updated: September 8, 2025
Made in Maine: A yacht built in Rockport
Laurie Schreiber Updated: September 8, 2025While the yacht Ouzel was designed in Newport, R.I., it is the expertise brought by a Rockport boatyard that is getting the vessel ready for the high seas.
Laurie Schreiber Updated: September 8, 2025
Westbrook industrial property sold for $13M in off-market deal
Laurie Schreiber Updated: September 3, 2025Factors making the deal attractive included a quality tenant, the relatively large scale of the property and a good location.
Laurie Schreiber Updated: September 3, 2025
Maine manufacturing: Strong roots, stronger future
John Lewis, Manufacturers Association of Maine Updated: September 1, 2025Manufacturers across Maine are investing in advanced technologies, expanding into global markets and creating good-paying jobs in communities of all sizes.
John Lewis, Manufacturers Association of Maine Updated: September 1, 2025
Beyond Vacationland: A Maine photographer captures manufacturing in the Pine Tree State
Tim Greenway Updated: September 1, 2025From axe making to pizza ovens, photographer Tim Greenway goes behind the scenes to showcase the tradition and innovation of Maine's manufacturing landscape.
Tim Greenway Updated: September 1, 2025
A showcase for Maine photographers — and data, too
Peter Van Allen Updated: September 1, 2025This year’s Fact Book has a particularly visual feel to it, with photo essays by regular contributors Tim Greenway, Jim Neuger and Fred Field.
Peter Van Allen Updated: September 1, 2025
'Cobots’ from around the world gather at UMaine’s high-tech training center
Laurie Schreiber Updated: August 28, 2025Modern manufacturing increasingly uses “smart” robotics and automation technology, known as “Industry 4.0.” The facility is designed to strengthen the worker pipeline.
Laurie Schreiber Updated: August 28, 2025
Today's Poll
Sponsored by Kennebunk Savings Bank
As hotel construction continues across Portland — with 10 new projects approved before the city imposed a moratorium on new hotel development — developers argue that new hotels bring jobs, tax revenue and visitors.
In June, the city extended the moratorium by six months.
With a growing number of hotel projects underway or proposed, some ask whether the market is saturated. Activists argue that developers should focus on much-needed housing.
Meantime, hotel rates routinely exceed $400 a night in Portland, so there's still apparently demand.
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The Giving Guide helps nonprofits have the opportunity to showcase and differentiate their organizations so that businesses better understand how they can contribute to a nonprofit’s mission and work.
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Work for ME
Work for ME is a workforce development tool to help Maine’s employers target Maine’s emerging workforce. Work for ME highlights each industry, its impact on Maine’s economy, the jobs available to entry-level workers, the training and education needed to get a career started.
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