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25 YEARS: IN REVIEW
In 1885, six Worcester entrepreneurs bought the
patent for a grinding wheel invented in the pottery
shop of Frank Norton.
These entrepreneurs started a new business—
Norton Company, which would later be acquired
by Saint-Gobain—and built their first grinding wheel
plant in the Greendale neighborhood of Worcester.
Today, the Greendale location remains the world
headquarters for Saint-Gobain Abrasives, exactly
where it all started 129 years ago.
Saint-Gobain congratulates
the Worcester Business Journal
on 25 years
of bringing business news to Worcester!
From Worcester to the World
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Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative
Medicine, the Gene Therapy Center,
the Department of Quantitative Health
Sciences and the Center for
Experiential Learning and Simulation.
Also in September, the
Massachusetts College of
Pharmacy and Health Sciences
opens a $10 million academic center in
downtown Worcester, at 40 Foster St.
The building, formerly the home of
Protocol Integrated Direct Marketing,
includes a multipurpose pharmacy lab-
oratory, two 250-seat distance educa-
tion auditoriums, three 50-seat "smart
classrooms," 20 faculty offices and a
student lounge.
EMC Corp. of Hopkinton acquires a
majority stake in Data Domain Inc.,
the California firm it plans to acquire
by the end of July for $2.1 billion.
EMC says it plans to make Data
Domain a branch of its storage divi-
sion and will develop disk-based back-
up, recovery and archive technology.
In August, Westborough-based eClini-
calWorks anticipates that federal stim-
ulus funds could prompt as many as
400 health centers to adopt electronic
medical records. The stimulus will pro-
vide about $851 million in grants to
The Massachusetts
College of
Pharmacy and
Health Sciences
academic center
on Foster Street
in Worcester.
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