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Third Annual
Economic Impact Awards Luncheon
Past
Economic Impact Award Winners*
2005
Interprint,
Inc.
Interprint,
Inc., headquartered in Arnsberg,
Germany, is constructing
a $27 million 135,000
square foot building to
house both office and
manufacturing space in
Pittsfield, MA.
The company prints
decorative laminating
products for residential
and commercial
use. Interprint,
which employs 127 at its
Pittsfield facility,
added 21 new jobs since
January 2004 and
projects employment to
increase by an
additional 25 percent
upon completion of
construction. The
new facility will be the
biggest investment
project in the history
of Pittsfield.
Interprint contributes
more than $50,000 per
year to charitable and
cultural nonprofit
organizations within
Berkshire County, and
Interprint has been
honored by Lieutenant Governor
Kerry Healey with the
Governor's Inner City
Investment Award in
recognition of its
business investment and
job creation in
Pittsfield's urban
center.
Intel
Massachusetts
Intel
Massachusetts and its
2,300 employees in
Hudson build chips,
software building
blocks, and other
ingredients of computers
and communication
products. In
February 2005 Intel
commenced a $17 million
investment in Hudson to
increase manufacturing
capacity by 25
percent. Intel has
already filled 100 of
160 associated new
jobs. In
September, Intel
announced an additional
$155 million investment
and hiring of 300 more
employees to further
increase manufacturing
capacity. Intel Massachusetts
works with local and
state educators to
improve science, math
and technology education
with a special focus on
females and
minorities. The
Massachusetts
Association of School
Committees has twice
named Intel and
Outstanding School
Partner. More than
38% or employees
participate each year in
Intel Involved, a
community service
volunteerism
program. They work
with area councils on
aging, food pantries,
the American Red Cross,
various environmental
protection
organizations, and run
back to school and
holiday gift drives, as
well as an annual
Community Giving
Campaign.
DuPuy
Orthopaedics, Inc.
DePuy
Orthopaedics, Inc., a
Johnson & Johnson
company, designs, manufactures,
and distributes
orthopaedic devices and
supplies. The
company's expansion in
Raynham is comprised of
74,000 square feet of
new office space and is
supplemented with
laboratory and surgical
suite renovations.
The expansion allows for
up to 385 new personnel
to be employed at the
Raynham site with 150
having been hired in
2004 and 2005.
DePuy Orthopaedics is
also expanding
manufacturing operations
at its New Bedford site,
adding manufacturing
capacity and related
professional offices
that will accommodate up
to 50 additional
employees. The
expansion at these sites
strengthens the
important medical device
manufacturing base in
Southeastern
Massachusetts.
DePuy's community
service activities
include contributions to
J. Robert Gladden
Orthopaedic Society (JRGOS)
to increase diversity in
the orthopedics
profession and employee
participation in the
Pan-Massachusetts
Challenge, a two day,
200-mile bike-a-thon
whose proceeds benefit
the Dana Farber Cancer
Institute through its
Jimmy Fund.
Straumann
USA
Straumann
USA, the United States
operation of the Swiss
medical device manufacturer,
chose to locate its
first North American
headquarters in Andover
after engaging in a
multi-state site
search. Straumann
is a global leader and
pioneer in oral
implantology and dental
tissue
regeneration.
Straumann's 161,000
square foot facility,
which opened in May
2005, will house the
company's US management
as well as a
state-of-the-art
production and
development unit to
manufacture high
precision implants for
tooth replacement.
Straumann plans to
employ 300 at the
facility within five
years and has already
added over 50 jobs
associated with its
expansion. A new
business to Andover,
Straumann is in the
process of opening a
dental clinic in its new
facility in conjunction
with Harvard Dental
School; the clinic will
provide dental services
to low income residents
of surrounding towns and
provide services to
patients with ectodermal
dysplasia.
Straumann is also active
in the Merrimack Valley
Chamber of Commerce.
Merck
Research Laboratories
Merck
Research Laboratories (MLR)
is the research division
of Merck, a leading
research-driven
pharmaceutical products
and services company headquartered
in Whitehouse Station,
NJ. MRL recently established
its first Massachusetts
facility in the Longwood
Medical Area of
Boston. The
research center is devoted
to discovering
therapeutics for
oncology, Alzheimer's disease,
and obesity. MRL
was attracted to Boston
because of the city's
initiatives to promote
the growth of life
sciences and to the
world-class medical and
academic institutions
anchored by Harvard Medical
School. The
300,000 square foot
facility, which opened
in October of 2004 with
220 new employees will
contain 18 new
laboratories. MRL
projects a full
employment of 460.
MRL's contributions to
the region include
devoting a large part of
the building's first
floor to a laboratory
created for community
use and educating
teachers and students
about the life
sciences.
Merck's national
philanthropic goals
support biomedical
science training and
education worldwide.
2004
Boyd
Converting Company, Inc.
Boyd
Converting Company, Inc.
is a supplier to
industrial, medical,
consumer and clean room
markets of high
value-added non-woven
and specialty paper
products and converting
services for technical
applications. The
company, headquartered
in Lee, MA, has recently
made substantial
additions to its
facility, adding 40,000
square feet in 2003 and
2004 to reach its
current size of 80,000
square feet. In
addition, Boyd has
leased an additional
40,000 square feet in an
adjacent building for
manufacturing.
Over the past two years,
Boyd has also increased
its employment by 88
percent from 67 to
126. Plans are in
place to hire 10 more
employees. In
addition, total payroll
will increase by
$1,750,000 per year from
2003 to 2005 to over
$5,000,000. The
company has dedicated
over $300,000 to
workforce training in
the past two years,
including support of
English as a second
language.
Nypro,
Inc.
Nypro,
Inc. is a leading global
provider of precision
plastics injection
molding and related manufacturing
solutions with over
12,000 employees at 61
locations in 17
countries. The
company manufactures
products for the
healthcare, electronics,
telecommunications,
consumer, industrial and
automotive
industries. Headquartered
in Clinton, MA, Nypro
recently constructed a
105,000 square foot
manufacturing
building. In addition
to the 1,200 jobs
currently in
Massachusetts, this new
facility is expected to
house 100 new jobs, with
potential growth to
150. Nypro's
community involvement
includes its serving as
a charter sponsor of the
national High School
Robotics competition;
founding NYPRO
Institute, which offers
educational programs in
injection molding, and
crating a foundation
that invests in the
Clinton area.
Silver
Line Building Products
Corp.
Silver
Line Building Products
Corp., headquartered in
North Brunswick, NJ,
develops and
manufactures high
quality innovative vinyl
windows. The
company recently
invested $13.1 million
in the construction of a
new 200,000 square foot
manufacturing facility
in Fall River - the
first New England
location for Silver
Line. As a result
of the new construction,
nearly 460 jobs will be
created over a five year
period, with half of the
new employment occurring
in 2004. It is
anticipated that Silver
Line's annual payroll by
Year 5 will be $9
million. Benefits
to the region include
increased business with
local vendors and
service providers and
on-the-job training for
both skilled and
unskilled employees.
New
Balance Athletic Shoe
New
Balance Athletic Shoe is
headquartered in Boston
and manufactures and
markets athletic
footwear and
apparel. The
company operates
worldwide but has had a
long history of
investing in one of the
Commonwealth's poorest
communities,
Lawrence. The
company has recently
added two new facilities
in Lawrence, creating
250 new jobs in
Massachusetts in the
past five years.
The sites in Lawrence
include a 363,000 square
foot warehouse and
distribution center as
well as a 521,000 square
foot facility at the
Ayer Mill in which the
company invested $6.3
million in 2003 to
support the
manufacturing, R&D,
and engineering
processes. New
Balance employs 650 at
its Lawrence facilities.
Novartis
Institute for BioMedical
Research
Novartis
Institutes for
BioMedical Research (NIBR)
is the research arm of
Novartis, the Swiss
pharmaceutical company
headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.
Novartis is a world
leader in
pharmaceuticals and
consumer health and
employs over 78,00
around the world.
In May of 2002, Novartis
announced the reorganization
of its entire global
research operations into
the Novartis Institutes
for BioMedical
Research.
Following that
announcement, the
decision was made to
move NIBR's global
research headquarters
from Basel to Cambridge,
Massachusetts. The
Cambridge location is
the headquarters for
NIBR facilities in the
United Kingdom,
Switzerland, Austria,
Japan, and New
Jersey. Between
March of 2003 and April
of 2004, NBIR opened two
facilities in Cambridge,
which combined include
750,000 square feet of
laboratory space and
house over 700 employees.
By the end of 2004, the
company expects to be
fully staffed at
approximately 1,000
employees.
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