WEST BRIDGEWATER At 95 years of age, Justin Wyner, chairman of the board at West Bridgewater s Shawmut Corporation, has seen a lot of change in his 105-year-old manufacturing company.
Beginning his tenure at Shawmut working for his father in the 1940s, it has been his first and only job, Wyner said at a news conference at the Manley Street facility on Wednesday.
Looking at a crowd of masked faces, with a backdrop of manufacturing machines mass-producing N95 masks on Wednesday morning, the change was evident.
The West Bridgewater Shawmut facility that he helped build in 1984 looks a lot different in 2021.
This third-generation Massachusetts family business has a history of service, producing field jackets, blankets and parachutes for the U.S. military during both World War I and World War II.
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