Worcester Business Journal

wbjournal.com | Book of Lists 2021 | Worcester Business Journal 65 Largest local manufacturers Ranked by number of local employees as of March Name Local employees/ statewide employees/ worldwide employees Product(s)/ 2020 revenue Head of company/ year founded 1 Dell Technologies 176 South St., Hopkinton 01748 508-435-1000 • www.delltechnologies.com 8,800 DND 157,000 IT hardware, software, solutions and services $92,140,000,000 Michael S. Dell chairman & CEO 1984 2 IPG Photonics Corp. 50 Old Webster Road, Oxford 01540 508-373-1100 • www.ipgphotonics.com 1,700 1,700 6,200 Fiber laser technology providing manufacturers the power to transform materials into end-products across any application and industry $1,200,000,000 Eugene Scherbakov (a) CEO 1990 3 Waters Corp. 34 Maple St., Milford 01757 508-482-2000 • www.waters.com 1,506 1,670 7,300 Analytical science technologies $2,365,000,000 Udit Batra president & CEO 1958 4 Saint-Gobain 1 New Bond St., Worcester 01606 508-795-5000 • www.saint-gobain.com 1,300 DND 170,000 Abrasives, industrial ceramics and plastics manufacturing $42,000,000,000 Pierre-Andre de Chalendar president & CEO 1885 5 Jabil 101 Union St., Clinton 01510 978-365-9721 • www.jabil.com 1,270 1,270 260,000 Medical devices such as diabetes care, drug delivery and injectables $27,266,438,000 Mark Mondello CEO 1966 6 Bose Corp. The Mountain, Framingham 01701 508-879-7330 • www.bose.com ~1,000 (b) DND DND Audio technology DND Lila Snyder CEO 1964 6 Boston Scientific Corp. 300 Boston Scientific Way, Marlborough 01752 508-683-5670 • www.bostonscientific.com 1,000 2,900 36,000 Medical devices $9,913,000,000 (c) Michael F. Mahoney chairman & CEO 1979 6 Bristol Myers Squibb Co. 38 Jackson Road, Devens 01434 978-784-6001 • www.bms.com 1,000 1,600 30,000 Biopharma discovery, development and delivery of medicines for patients with serious diseases; including oncology, hematology, immunology, cardiovascular, fibrosis and neuroscience $42,500,000,000 Giovanni Caforio chairman & CEO 1858 6 Raytheon Technologies 1001 Boston Post Road East, Marlborough 01752 508-490-1000 • www.rtx.com ~1,000 (b) DND 180,000 Aerospace and defense $57,100,000,000 (c) Gregory J. Hayes CEO 1922 10 Columbia Tech, a Coghlin Co. 27 Otis St., Westborough 01581 508-753-2354 • www.columbiatech.com 725 725 725 Product development, manufacturing, global fulfillment and aftermarket services DND Chris Coghlin president & CEO 1992 11 KARL STORZ Endovision Inc. 91 Carpenter Hill Road, Charlton 01507 508-248-9011 • www.karlstorz.com 700 DND 8,500 Endoscopes, medical instruments and devices DND Bruce Watkins president & general manager 1989 11 Polar Beverages 1001 Southbridge St., Worcester 01610 508-753-4300 • www.polarbev.com 700 1,000 1,800 Soft drinks DND Ralph D. Crowley Jr. CEO & president 1882 13 Cognex Corp. 1 Vision Drive, Natick 01760 508-650-3000 • www.cognex.com 621 DND 2,055 Machine vision systems and ID readers for industrial automation and logistics $811,020,000 Robert Willett president & CEO 1981 14 Hologic Inc. 250 Campus Drive, Marlborough 01752 508-263-2900 • www.hologic.com 600 780 6,091 Medical devices $3,776,400,000 Stephen P. MacMillan chairman, president & CEO 1985 15 AIS 25 Tucker Drive, Leominster 01453 978-562-7500 • www.ais-inc.com 553 583 753 Office furniture $212,000,000 Bruce Platzman (d) CEO 1989 16 FLEXcon 1 FLEXcon Industrial Park, Spencer 01562 508-885-8200 • www.flexcon.com 508 510 800 Films and adhesives $300,000,000 Lavon Winkler CEO, FLEXcon NA 1956 17 Garelick Farms Inc. (e) 1199 W. Central St., Franklin 02038 508-528-9000 • www.garelickfarms.com ~500 (f) DND 20,000 (g) Dairy products DND Rick Smith president & CEO, Dairy Farmers of America 1931 17 Neles (h) 44 Bowditch Drive, Shrewsbury 01545 508-852-0200 • www.metso.com ~500 (f) DND 2,850 Manufacturing for mining, aggregates, recycling, oil, gas, pulp, paper and process industries DND Patrick Dunn head, North America market area 1950 17 Philips Lifeline 111 Lawrence St., Framingham 01701 800-380-3111 • www.lifelinesys.com ~500 (f) DND 81,592 Monitoring systems DND Frans van Houten president & CEO, Phillips N.V. 1974 17 The L.S. Starrett Co. 121 Crescent St., Athol 01331 978-249-3551 • www.starrett.com 500 500 1,607 Precision tools DND Douglas A Starrett president & CEO 1880 21 Tegra Medical 9 Forge Parkway, Franklin 02038 508-541-4200 • www.tegramedical.com 433 610 993 Contract manufacturer of complex components and complete medical devices DND Walter Kobler CEO 2007 22 Gentex Optics Inc. 430 Optical lenses and progressive, high-index and anti-reflective coated William Van Wieren 71 Slideways Inc. 705 Plantation St., Worcester 01605 800-298-7543 • www.slideways.com 28 28 30 Manufacturer of plastic bearings, guide rails and wear components for conveyor systems and packaging machiner; custom machined plastic parts to customer specifications DND Tom Sioui CEO 1994 72 Acorn Deck House Co. 852 Main St., Acton 01720 800-727-3325 • AcornDeckHouse.Com 25 DND DND Custom prefabricated homes DND Tom Trudeau owner & CEO 1947 73 OptiMA Inc. 220 Cherry St., Worcester 01545 508-842-6200 • www.optimacompanies.com 21 DND DND Dry erase white boards DND Christine Klimavich president 1987 74 USPack Inc. 300 Whitney St., Leominster 01453 978-537-4748 • uspack.net 19 19 19 Aftermarket automotive additives, automotive cleaning products and household cleaning products DND Svetlana Aptekman president 2004 75 Lancaster Packaging Inc. 560 Main St., Hudson 01749 978-562-0100 • www.lancasterpackaging.com 14 DND DND Industrial packaging materials $9,600,000 Marianne Lancaster president & CEO 1989 76 Boston Piezo-Optics Inc. 38-B Maple St., Bellingham 02019 508-966-4988 • www.bostonpiezooptics.com 13 DND DND Manufacturer of custom piezoelectric transducer crystals and optical components $1,200,000 Steven Wickstrom president Kim Simmons general manager 1984 77 Interscope Inc. 200 Commerce Drive, 2nd Floor, Northbridge 01534 877-420-7299 • www.interscopemed.com 12 12 25 Design, manufacture and distribution of therapeutic endoscopic instruments for gastroenterology, pulmonology and otolaryngology procedures DND Jeffery Ryan Jr. co-founder, president & CEO 2011 78 BioSurfaces Inc. 200 Homer Ave., Ashland 01721 508-881-8860 • www.biosurfaces.us 11 11 11 Medical devices using a proprietary electrospinning process, which augments existing medical care and emerging approaches DND Matthew D. Phaneuf president & CTO Tina M. Phaneuf VP, finance 2003 79 Fluorolite Plastics 2 Central St., Framingham 01701 508-788-1200 • www.fluorolite.com 7 DND DND Plastic diffusers and lens covers for fluorescent and LED light fixtures including original and custom replacements DND Ayesha Nawaz owner 1977 Source: Each manufacturer via survey, annual reports, company websites and/or Mass. Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (noted). Note: DND = Did not disclose. (a) Effective May 4, 2021, COO and managing director of IPG Laser GmbH Scherbakov replaced Valentin Gapontsev as CEO. (b) Local employee figure falls within a range of 1,000-4,999, according to data published by the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. (c) Net sales (d) Effective July 1, 2021, serves as CEO after holding both president and CEO positions; executive vice president of sales and distribution Nick Haritos promoted to president (e) Former owner of Garelick Farms, Texas-based Dean Foods, sold this and other assets to Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) on May 1, 2020. (f) Local employee figure falls within a range of 500-999, according to data published by the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. (g) For Dairy Farmers of America (h) Formerly Metso Flow Control USA (i) Cork, Ireland-based Johnson Controls acquired Tyco SimplexGrinnell in September 2016. (j) Founding year for Gardner's original Simplex Time Recorder Co. (k) Figure represents worldwide revenues. Revenues for the Americas was $2.7 billion. (l) On March 9, PerkinElmer acquired Oxford, U.K.- and Marlborough-based Oxford Immunotec for $591 million. As of Sept. 30, 2020, Oxford Immunotec had approximately 275 global employees. (m) 278 employees in Milford and 27 employees in Marlborough (n) Address listed is for Lighting and Imaging. Schott Electronic Packaging is located at 15 Wells St., Southbridge, www.us.schott.com/epackaging/english, 508-765-7450. (o) Local employee figure falls within a range of 250-499, according to data published by the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. (p) As of March 1, 2021 Acacia Communications became part of Calif.-based Cisco. (q) Figure from 2020 survey (r) As of Dec. 31, 2020 (s) Effective April 1, succeeded Yoshitsugu Shaitaka as president (t) Plus an additional 13 contingent workers (u) Has been in operation since 1960s; acquired by Georgia-Pacific predecessor company in 1987 (v) Year Alphagary was established (w) With an additional Central Mass. location at 50 Prescott St., Worcester (x) 75 of these employees are in Hopkinton. (y) Affiliate of Hamilton Co. (z) Effective April 1, appointed role of CEO in addition to president; succeeded Anthony Rotunno, former CEO, who assumed role of founder and executive vice chair (aa) Will move primary location to 425 Fortune Blvd., Milford; date uncertain - Compiled by: Heide Martin, hmartin@nebusinessmedia.com M A N U F A C T U R I N G F O C U S

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