‘Coming Home’: Danish biotech giant Novo Nordisk puts down roots in West Lebanon
Dennis Clancy remembers June 30, 2014, very well. 9:35 a.m., to be exact. That’s when Clancy, a manufacturing technician at former Olympus Biotech in West Lebanon, got word that he was being laid off after 11 years with the company. Its Japanese owner, beset by an unrelated financial scandal, was exiting biotech to refocus on its core camera and microscope businesses. “I told my wife I was going to be home early that day,” Clancy...
Polartec Textile Plant to Leave Mass.
Lawrence, Mass. — The current owner of a Massachusetts textile factory that made national news 20 years ago when the former owner continued paying workers after a catastrophic fire has announced it is moving manufacturing out of state. The announcement Thursday by Polartec LLC came one day before the 20th anniversary of the blaze that destroyed the Lawrence company, then called Malden Mills. Polartec said it would move manufacturing...
Speeding Up Deliveries With More Tech
Pittsburgh — Around 8 a.m. at a cavernous warehouse outside Pittsburgh recently, about four dozen delivery drivers for United Parcel Service got their first look at the scheduled drop-offs for the day. Prepping for roughly 9-hour shifts with anywhere from 50 to 150 stops, it could have been — and, until recently, was — a daunting start, as drivers had to calculate how best to juggle the day’s load while negotiating Pittsburgh-area...
Lebanon Manufacturer Seeks to Establish Claremont Facility
Claremont — The building off River Road that was constructed for a water bottling plant but never occupied soon could have a new owner. Lebanon-based New Hampshire Industries has submitted an application with the Claremont Planning and Development office for a site plan amendment to establish manufacturing at 35 Connecticut River Bend Road. Claremont’s website lists the application on the Planning Board’s Nov. 23 agenda. Ice River...
City Board, D-H Meet on Palliative Care Center
Lebanon — Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s revised plans for an 18-bed palliative care center elicited few questions and generally positive, if subdued, comments from members of the city Planning Board on Monday night. David Stiger, a D-H representative, noted that the medical system had chosen “a different site for the project on property we own within the medical center zone.” It has been 19 months since D-H announced it had received a $10...
