MassMEP News

Gefran, Inc. 400 Willow Street North Andover, MA 01845 (888) 888-4474 gefran.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Gefran Hosts First Manufacturing Day Event for Students, in addition to the Fall Show Schedule for Professionals October and November events support education and professional outreach North Andover, Mass.–Aug. 23, 2023–Gefran, Inc., a manufacturer of […]

NEEDHAM, MA, UNITED STATES, September 26, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — BostonSight®, a nonprofit healthcare organization that advances the treatment of diseased and damaged corneas and dry eye, announced it has received a $200,000 manufacturing grant from the Massachusetts Manufacturing Accelerate Program (MMAP) to advance its scleral lens manufacturing capabilities. The MMAP grant […]

  Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks announced the award today of $238 million in “Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act” funding for the establishment of eight Microelectronics Commons (Commons) regional innovation hubs. This is the largest award to date under President Biden’s CHIPS and Science […]

A Guide for Chemical Spill Response By: Darcy Cook, CHSO, SHS, PTA If you google spill response for OSHA you are going to be challenged to find information in the regulation on spill response other than in Emergency Action Planning. But for an everyday hazardous chemical spill, there are more […]

A Word from our President This past June, I was privileged to spend a week in Germany with several other folks from MEP Centers, Manufacturing USA Institute and the Department of Defense. The trip was organized by the America Works, part of MAGNET MEP and American Council on Germany, and […]

The Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standardsand Technology (NIST), has awarded $400,000 to MassMEP to develop programs to make domestic supply chains more resilient and efficient. MassMEP will use the $400,000 to support the Massachusetts manufacturing supply chain and […]

  Gary Tavares MassMEP Employee Highlights Meet Gary Tavares, MassMEP Business Development Advisor. Gary has been with MassMEP for 7 months, and enthusiastically states, “I just love it. I go into factories across the state and look at their operations and their problems. Then I propose solutions and bring in […]

  Olivia Antonelli MassMEP Employee Highlights Olivia Antonelli is an Administration Coordinator at MassMEP.  Olivia cheerfully says that she has a variety of tasks in her job. “The biggest task is monitoring Salesforce to make sure all the data there is accurate and accurately represents what our Business Development Advisors […]

  Maria Mara – MassMEP Employee Highlights Maria Mara joined MassMEP as a Project Manager in the spring of 2022. She describes her job with energy and enthusiasm, “What we do is very exciting because we meet and work directly with our customers. We work with everyone across our client’s […]