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Sea Bags to enlarge Freeport footprint, visibility
Updated: April 15, 2021"This is a big move for us, and one we don't take lightly," Sea Bags CEO Don Oakes said of the move from 6 Bow St. to 15 Bow St. The relocation will triple the retailer's physical space in Freeport.
Updated: April 15, 2021
Puritan grows southward: Workforce, incentives made Tennessee 'right fit' for expansion
April 14, 2021The Guilford-based medical products company looked at several states when the federal government granted $146.8 million in Defense Production Act money and asked the company to expand its COVID-19 swab testing production outside of New England.
April 14, 2021
Biddeford-based Volk Packaging is expanding to Sanford, expects to hire 20
April 13, 2021Volk has been on a growth trajectory for the past 12 years. The company's new division, Volk Pack, will handle business-to-business and business-to-consumer fulfillment, repackaging and prepackaging assembly.
April 13, 2021EPA fines Dutch manufacturer for violations at former South Portland site
April 9, 2021The company, Quick Plug SA, has agreed to pay a penalty of $137,294 penalty to settle charges that it violated the Clean Air Act's chemical accident prevention rules. It stopped operating in Maine in December 2020.
April 9, 2021
With new destroyer underway, BIW looks to increase production and add workers
April 8, 2021Bath Iron Works, which was visited this week by Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Harker, plans to hire 2,000 workers this year and step up production. The pandemic and last year's labor strike slowed operations at the shipyard.
April 8, 2021
Trades Council says Maine's offshore wind industry could create hundreds of construction jobs
April 8, 2021New England Aqua Ventus and the Maine Building and Construction Trades Council said in an memo that offshore wind projects could create hundreds of union construction jobs. Commercial fishermen oppose the project.
April 8, 2021
After devastating fire, Aroostook pellet maker adds automation, grows capacity
April 6, 2021A year-long rebuild followed by restoring the customer and supplier base positioned the company to weather the pandemic with installation of automated machinery that doubled production.
April 6, 2021
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
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