“Our new 150,000-sq-ft facility brings all of our teams together under one roof,” said Brian Weinstein, President & CEO of ...

In the early 1990s, the state created an economic development program to provide direct financial assistance to manufacturing companies facing offshore competition. But in the decades since, the now ...

GROTON — This past winter, eight recently hired machinists at one of Connecticut’s largest manufacturers spent more than 200 hours at a school in Groton learning the fundamentals of their trade.

Mirabelle Medical was one of three startups to receive Make It Here: CT Product Development Grant awards from FORGE after the ...

The groundbreaking initiative will help to bring the future of the industry directly to students at their schools and to education and job fairs in the area. Paul Lavoie is the state of Connecticut’s ...

Connecticut Chief Manufacturing Officer Paul Lavoie presents a new campaign for the manufacturing industry targeting young adults and their parents. SHAHRZAD RASEKH / CT MIRROR In the early 1990s, the ...

Chances are, if you are of a certain age, you or your parents were part of the majority in Connecticut if you worked in manufacturing. In fact, manufacturing drove the local economy and supported ...

Manufacturing is a major part of Connecticut's workforce and has been for more than 100 years. And now, there's a new push to get more companies to Make It Here, as the slogan goes. So what kind of ...

Those are all words that roll readily from a conversation with Paul Lavoie, who was once Connecticut’s chief manufacturing officer. Now Lavoie is in the beginning of his job as the University of New ...