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Rocket-maker bluShift to crowd-fund next capital round
April 5, 2021Brunswick manufacturer bluShift Aerospace launched its first rocket prototype in January and recently opened a crowd equity funding campaign for further rocket development.
April 5, 2021
Maine Seabee helps bring part of the USS Constitution to the White House
April 2, 2021A team of four Navy engineers, including one from Maine, used repurposed wood from the oldest commissioned ship in the U.S. to build executive desks for the offices of the vice president and secretary of the Navy.
April 2, 2021
Nestle's sale of Poland Spring to private investors closes
April 1, 2021It's not clear what impact, if any, the sale of Poland Spring will have on Maine, where the bottled water company has nearly 900 employees and three bottling plants.
April 1, 2021
Lincolnville boatbuilders to restore 1928 NJ oyster schooner
April 1, 2021The AJ Meerwald once worked the oyster fishery in southern New Jersey, and is now an educational attraction. A nine-month restoration is planned. “It’s the very definition of a working waterfront,” said Belfast’s mayor.
April 1, 2021
With $147M contract, Guilford swab maker goes out of state for 4th plant
April 1, 2021Puritan Medical Products, the manufacturer of clinical swabs used in COVID-19 testing, plans to open a fourth manufacturing facility over 1,000 miles away from the company's current sites in Guilford and Pittsfield.
April 1, 2021
Sea Bags to lay anchor at larger Portland flagship store
Updated: March 30, 2021Sea Bags will lease 2,500 square feet of space at 123 Commercial St., while tweaking the format of its store at nearby Custom House Wharf, which is also a production site.
Updated: March 30, 2021Maine's unemployment is at the lowest rate since pandemic's start
March 29, 2021The rate hovered at about this level during the last four months of 2020, and is less than half the percentages seen during the start of the COVID-19 crisis.
March 29, 2021
Kittery brewer makes strong debut of Maine's first nonalcoholic craft beer
Updated: March 29, 2021Pointer, the newest brand from Woodland Farms Brewery of Kittery, sold out online in four days, founder Patrick Rowan told Mainebiz.
Updated: March 29, 2021
Celebrating the 2021 Mainebiz Business Leaders of the Year
March 26, 2021Read about seven distinguished Mainers who have helped shape the state's economic vitality over the past 12 months, and who will be honored at the virtual Business Leaders of the Year award reception on Thursday, April 15.
March 26, 2021
Waterville-based truck body manufacturer gets into the electric vehicle market
March 25, 2021DuraMag, a fast-growing manufacturer of aluminum truck bodies, will now provide them for an all-electric, lightweight vehicle, the Waterville company said this week.
March 25, 2021GO Lab gets $85M in bond financing from FAME
March 19, 2021The startup, which plans to manufacture wood fiber insulation in a former Madison paper mill, will use the bond financing to ready the plant for production.
March 19, 2021
Camden considers public-private partnership to upgrade harbor infrastructure
March 19, 2021Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding is pitching the town on a public-private partnership to upgrade harbor infrastructure. Goals include growing the transient-boater market and visitor spending. But some residents worry about more boat congestion.
March 19, 2021
How to protect trade secrets in Maine state government contracting
March 19, 2021Guest columnist Benjamin Piper, a partner at Preti Flaherty, writes that businesses that ignore state information-access laws could find proprietary information falling in the hands of their competitors.
March 19, 2021
Landing School finds innovative way to connect students with employers
March 18, 2021With pandemic restrictions making it difficult for students and employers to meet in person, the school helped students make short videos to discuss their ideal jobs and experience, to post online with resumes.
March 18, 2021
Business Leaders: These three entrepreneurs are growing Maine Crisp faster than barley
Updated: March 22, 2021Karen Getz started Maine Crisp Co. seven years ago in a basement. Her husband, Steve, joined the effort, and then Steve's business partner, Mike Ross. Today, the company is preparing to move into a 17,500-square-foot Winslow plant.
Updated: March 22, 2021
Business Leader: Scott Wellman, of Puritan Medical Products, is driving production of COVID test swabs
Updated: March 22, 2021Mainebiz has named Wellman one of the seven 2021 Business Leaders of the Year. Wellman is Puritan Medical Products Co.’s general manager, and helped oversee the Guilford-based company’s push to ramp up production of COVID-19 test swabs.
Updated: March 22, 2021
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