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StuffMadeinMA.com • 2 0 2 0 • S T U F F 9 to include hotels, restaurants, apartments, retail and other use. The project also calls for improvements or reconstructions of several roads, the construction of a new road and the redevelopment of Kelley Square. The world's No. 3 seltzer If you've ever needed a refreshing bever- age on a hot summer day, look no further than Polar Seltzer. Polar Beverages has been making its widely popular Polar Seltzer since the late 1800s and continues to innovate, releasing new flavors each year. The company also makes other drinks, like Sparkling Polar Dry, Sparkling Water Frost, Seltzer'ade and other mixers, but Polar Seltzer is the com- pany's bread and butter. Out of the company's factories in Worcester and elsewhere, Polar makes 19 flavors of seltzers, including black cherry, blueberry lemonade, cherry pomegranate, cranberry clementine, cranberry lime, lemon, lime, mandarin, orange vanilla, original, pineapple pomelo, pomegranate, raspberry lime, ruby red grapefruit, toasted coconut, triple berry and vanilla. The company's constant innovation has propelled it to become the third largest seltzer company in the U.S. behind LaCroix and Pepsi's Bubly. The company in 2020 signed a long-term franchise agree- ment with Keurig Dr Pepper to take Polar to a national distribution. President and CEO Ralph Crowley said Polar now makes other products under the Keurig Dr Pepper family, like Snapple, 7 Up, Sunkist and A&W Root Beer. Top secrets crusher At governmental agencies operating in top-secret environments, protecting infor- mation and data and making sure state secrets don't fall into the wrong hands is critical. Now that most information is digi- tal these days, agencies like the FBI, CIA, military and others need to make sure unused and obsolete devices can't be mined for intelligence. That's where Security Engineered Machining comes in. The company, based in Westborough, makes devices like the Model 0101 Automatic Hard Drive Crusher to physi- cally destroy hard drives, regardless of size or whether they come from laptops, desk- tops or servers. The crusher meets the National Security Agency and U.S. Department of Defense standards for the physical damage of media, so it's used by government agencies, the defense industry and other highly secretive organizations placing a premium on information security. At the touch of a button, the crusher delivers 12,000 pounds of force to destroy the hard drive and its internal platter – all within eight seconds. It can destroy up to four standard laptop drives of six ultra- Name: Polar Park Organizations making it: City of Worcester and the Worcester Red Sox How long will it take to build? 18 months (July 2019-April 2021) Price: $132 million+ Baseball stadium $116,396 Average annual salary of a manufacturing worker in Middlesex County, the county with the highest-paid manufacturing employees in Massachusetts Continued on page 11 Brand name: Polar Seltzer Company that makes it: Polar Beverages, in Worcester Fast track: Polar makes 2,200 cans of seltzer per minute Retail price: 12 pack for $4.99 Seltzer A selection of Polar Seltzer flavors A rendering of the Polar Park baseball stadium, for the Worcester Red Sox R E N D E R I N G | C O U RT E S Y O F W O R C E S T E R R E D S O X P H O T O | B R A D K A N E