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Trevor Sims, 50, was making dinner on Sunday night when he heard a loud bang and his mother-in-law screaming.

A new lab to study how the latest artificial intelligence tools and techniques could bolster advanced manufacturing in northern New England will be launched with a $6 million award from the National Science Foundation to the University of Maine. UMaine will collaborate with the University of New Hampshire, University of Vermont, Southern Maine Community College, […]

More Maine companies are looking to automated systems to speed operations, grow capacity, and in some cases fill in for workers they can’t find. But those aren't the only benefits, the businesses are discovering.

Orono, Maine — Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau visited the University of Maine Feb. 18 for tours, discussions with students and a meeting with UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy as a Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center.  Since 2006, the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center has hosted distinguished policymakers from Maine […]

Every October the organization highlights Maine companies to interested middle and high school students as well as educators and community members.

Former senator John Land and Marie Land hosted a sur- prise reception in honor of the accomplishments made by John Belding and Lee Beld- ing. At the reception, friends of the Beldings gave …

John Belding, director of the University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC), will highlight opportunities for Maine manufacturers to tap into the services available at the university’s Center for Additive Manufacturing of Metals (CAMM) in an informational webinar scheduled for 10 a.m. June 16. CAMM is focused on the 3D-printing process that turns digital designs […]

Manufacturing — making products and adding value to raw materials — plays a crucial role in Maine’s economic well-being, but the industry is changing.  Pulp and paper production has declined over the years as several mills have shuttered. Emerging firms are smaller than they once were, and many now use high-tech, precision manufacturing. Despite its alterations, however, the manufacturing economy in Maine continues to expand and evolve.   Companies eager to fuel or participate...

About Springworks Farm employs highly advanced organic aquaponics to grow and convert lettuce into many products including salad mixes of many types. With multiple acres of greenhouse space, precisely controlled atmosphere, and lighting coupled to advanced production, conversion, and packaging system, Springworks is a major provider of organic lettuce and lettuce-based products throughout New England. Today, Springworks Farm employees 25 people growing 1 million heads of lettuce per year The C...