German Giant Buys CD-adapco
Lebanon — The purchase by a German engineering giant of a Long Island, N.Y.-based company reverberated in the Upper Valley last week, although the local long-term impact was not immediately clear. Melville, N.Y.-based CD-adapco, which employs 65 people at offices in the Centerra office park in Lebanon who work primarily in product development, entered into a stock purchase agreement valued at $970 million with Munich-based Siemens AG....
Students Invent Devices to Battle Snow, Ice, Cold
Boston — Winter is bearing down anew, and Harvard University students have been engineering new ways to deal with it. Eighteen juniors representing several engineering disciplines in professor David Mooney’s problem-solving and design class spent the fall semester inventing a robotic remote-control rooftop snowblower, a superheated icicle cutter and a freeze-resistant doormat. The projects grew out of meetings with the university’s...
‘A Fascinating Story of Engineering’: Salvaging a Piece of Claremont’s Agricultural History
Claremont — Long before it was an eyesore and safety hazard, the abandoned four-story wooden structure with a cupola on top at 157 Pleasant St. was a sophisticated mechanized grain mill operation at a time when farms and railroads were dominant parts of the state’s economy. Built in 1904 by D. Whiting and Sons, the mill is thought to be the first in the area to rely solely on electricity to process corn, wheat, oats and barley for...
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Reginald Greene, of Hanover, has been promoted to executive vice president, director of lending and credit, at Ledyard National Bank. Greene joined Ledyard in 2012 as the senior commercial lender. Before that, he worked for Chittenden Bank and Merchants Bank in Vermont, Toronto Dominion Bank in New York and Texas Commerce Bank in Houston. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the Jones Graduate School of...
