Dec. 12, 2022, EditionEdition

ACE board member Carrie Yardley offers advice for how to protect a small professional services business.

Hinckley Yachts, which has 240 employees in Maine, is adding to its staff. It has turned to the Landing School to train boatbuilders and, in some cases, retrain tradespeople whose skills might apply to boatbuilding.

It may not be what anyone would call heady times, but the manufacturing industry has held its own in these turbulent times.

From small businesses like Franklin Printing to larger players such as Puritan Medical Products and Bath Iron Works, Maine manufacturers are getting more strategic about recruiting and hiring as many of their older employees retire.

Temperatures reaching thousands of degrees. Brutal cosmic conditions. Novel exploratory missions traversing billions of miles. The challenges of manufacturing for extreme conditions are technical and inventive. We checked in with some of these companies.

Every two weeks, Mainebiz publishes an interview with a business newsmaker we call "On the Record." Here are some highlights from 2022's "On the Record" interviews.