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  • Mobile shower company, gluten-free pie maker among SCORE awardees

    Lori Valigra June 17, 2016

    Entrepreneur mentoring group SCORE honored 10 local companies with a Success Award in Portland Thursday at its annual luncheon.

    Lori Valigra June 17, 2016
  • Timothy B. Hussey, York County business and community leader, dies

    Staff June 14, 2016

    Timothy B. Hussey, the president and CEO of North Berwick-based Hussey Seating Co., died Monday after a battle with cancer.

    Staff June 14, 2016
  • Sustainable growth planned for Good Natured Brand

    Tina Fischer June 13, 2016

    With consumer demand for chemical-free products at an all-time high, Good Natured Brand's line of all-natural cleaning and personal care products is finding a profitable and expanding niche.

    Tina Fischer June 13, 2016
  • Paper machine shutdown leads to expected layoffs

    Staff June 7, 2016

    Forty-nine workers at a Twin Rivers Paper Co. paper mill in Madawaska are expected to be laid off following the shutting down of a paper machine in July as part of a $12 million investment that will see upgrades to another paper machine, allowing it

    Staff June 7, 2016
  • Loss of contract leads to perfumery closing, layoffs

    June 7, 2016

    The loss of a contract with the fragrance and cosmetics brand Elizabeth Arden is leading to the expected closure of perfume maker Evergreen Manufacturing in Madawaska and the subsequent loss of 70 jobs in the Aroostook County town.

    June 7, 2016
  • King supports incentives for alternative forest product R&D

    Kevin Steeves June 2, 2016

    U.S. Sen. Angus King on Wednesday put his support behind the Timber Innovation Act, bipartisan legislation that supports the acceleration of research and development of wood use in the construction of buildings over 85 feet high or roughly seven or

    Kevin Steeves June 2, 2016
  • App developer takes home $120K Microsoft prize at Top Gun pitch-off

    Staff May 27, 2016

    Team AR, the Brunswick-based software and app developer behind an augmented reality app that projects publicly available property boundaries into a smart phone camera view, won the $120,000 Microsoft BizSpark in-kind services prize at the annual Top

    Staff May 27, 2016
  • Casco Bay Steel purchases steel fabrication plant for $3M

    Laurie Schreiber May 26, 2016

    SOUTH PORTLAND — Casco Bay Steel Structures' $3 million purchase of the former Megquier & Jones steel fabrication plant, at 1156 Broadway, gives the company valuable railroad access to ship fabricated steel bridge girders from the Turners Island

    Laurie Schreiber May 26, 2016
  • Chainsaw-wielding robots? Just another day at Howe & Howe Technologies

    May 20, 2016

    A Waterboro tech firm will be providing a helping-hand to a 16-foot tall, chainsaw-wielding battle robot.

    May 20, 2016
  • UMaine says 'cheers' to trend for more science in craft brewing

    Lori Valigra May 16, 2016

    UMaine food science and human nutrition professors Jason Bolton and Brian Perkins developed a course, FSN 121 Brewing with Food Science, and taught it over the past three years. Their idea caught on fast. The undergraduate course is so popular that

    Lori Valigra May 16, 2016
  • Can hop-growers, maltsters and brewers make a truly Maine beer?

    Lori Valigra May 16, 2016

    That's just what local craft brewers and some government officials want: a truly Maine beer, with Maine-grown and processed ingredients. The side benefits are higher prices for farmers producing malt-grade barley and varieties of hops as well as a

    Lori Valigra May 16, 2016
  • ‘Buy American’ provision makes it into 2017 DoD bill

    Staff May 13, 2016

    U.S. Sen. Angus King successfully added a provision to the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act that he and Sen. Susan Collins have been pushing for that would require the Department of Defense to comply with the Berry Amendment by providing

    Staff May 13, 2016
  • No slowing Sea Bags proliferation, as trio of new stores opening

    Staff May 13, 2016

    More tourists and Mainers alike will be sporting upscale tote bags made from recycled sails, as Sea Bags, the Portland designer and manufacturer of hand-crafted, upscale totes and accessories, has announced that it will be opening three new retail

    Staff May 13, 2016
  • Bixby & Co. owner named Tory Burch Foundation fellow

    Staff May 10, 2016

    Kate McAleer, the owner of the Rockland-based craft candy bar company Bixby & Co., has been named a Tory Burch Foundation fellow, receiving a $10,000 business education grant and a trip to New York City for a three-day workshop at the Tory Burch

    Staff May 10, 2016
  • Rubber division of Sanford manufacturer sold

    May 10, 2016

    Five of the 33 employees of the Sanford-based manufacturer Expanded Rubber Products will be laid off following the company's sale of its foam rubber line to Mossup, Conn.-based manufacturer Griswold LLC.

    May 10, 2016
  • 120 without work following closure of Keiser Homes

    May 6, 2016

    The Oxford-based modular home manufacturer Keiser Homes has closed, leaving approximately 120 people without work as part of the reported bankruptcy filing of its parent company, the Mechanicsburg, Pa.-based Innovative Building Systems.

    May 6, 2016

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