Worcester Business Journal

wbjournal.com | Book of Lists 2017 | Worcester Business Journal 75 M A N U F A C T U R I N G & T E C H N O L O G Y F O C U S Largest local manufacturers Ranked by number of local employees as of March Name No. of local employees Annual revenue Products Head of company Year founded 1 Dell Technologies (EMC Corp.) 176 South St., Hopkinton 01748 508-435-1000 • www.emc.com 9,000 $72,000,000,000 Network storage hardware, software and services Michael Dell chairman & CEO 1979 2 Saint-Gobain 1 New Bond St., Worcester 01606 508-795-5000 • www.saint-gobain.com 1,572 DND Abrasives, industrial ceramics and plastics manufacturing Pierre-Andre de Chalendar president & CEO 1885 3 IPG Photonics Corp. 50 Old Webster Road, Oxford 01540 508-373-1100 • www.ipgphotonics.com 1,500 $1,006,170,000 Fiber lasers Valentin Gapontsev CEO & founder 1990 3 Waters Corp. 34 Maple St., Milford 01757 508-482-2000 • www.waters.com 1,500 $2,200,000,000 Analytical science technologies Christopher J. O'Connell president & CEO 1958 5 Boston Scientific Corp. 300 Boston Scientific Way, Marlborough 01752 508-683-5670 • www.bostonscientific.com 1,471 $8,386,000,000 Medical devices Michael F. Mahoney president & CEO 1979 6 Metso Automation USA Inc. 44 Bowditch Drive, Shrewsbury 01545 508-852-0200 • www.metso.com 1,200 $2,430,000,000 1 Manufacturing for mining, aggregates, recycling, oil, gas, pulp, paper and process industries John Quinlivan president, Metso Flow Control 1950 7 Bose Corp. The Mountain, Framingham 01701 508-879-7330 • www.bose.com ~1,000 2 $3,500,000,000 Audio and video equipment Bob Maresca president 1964 7 Raytheon Co. 1001 Boston Post Road East, Marlborough 01752 508-490-1000 • www.raytheon.com ~1,000 3 $24,069,000,000 Aerospace and defense Thomas A. Kennedy CEO 1922 9 Hologic Inc. 250 Campus Drive, Marlborough 01752 508-263-2900 • www.hologic.com 854 $2,832,700,000 Medical devices Stephen P. MacMillan president & CEO 1987 10 KARL STORZ Endoscopy-America Inc. 91 Carpenter Hill Road, Charlton 01507 800-421-0837 • www.karlstorz.com 700 DND Endoscopes, medical instruments and devices Charles Wilhelm president & COO 1989 10 SimplexGrinnell LP 4 16 Brooks St., Worcester 01606 978-731-2500 • www.simplexgrinnell.com 700 $9,902,000,000 Fire alarm, sprinkler, and suppression; integrated security; emergency communications; sound and nurse call systems and services. Robert Chauvin president 1894 10 Tegra Medical 9 Forge Parkway, Franklin 02038 508-541-4200 • www.tegramedical.com 700 DND Precision machining and contract manufacturing for medical device components J. Mark King president & CEO 2007 13 Polar Beverages 1001 Southbridge St., Worcester 01610 508-753-4300 • www.polarbev.com 675 $465,000,000 Soft drink manufacturing Ralph D. Crowley CEO & president 1882 14 Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 38 Jackson Road, Devens 01434 978-784-6001 • www.bms.com 645 $19,427,000,000 Diversified specialty biopharmaceuticals Giovanni Caforio CEO 1858 15 FLEXcon 1 FLEXcon Industrial Park, Spencer 01562 508-885-8200 • www.flexcon.com 629 $300,000,000 Films and adhesives Neil McDonough CEO Lavon Winkler president 1956 16 The L.S. Starrett Co. 121 Crescent St., Athol 01331 978-249-3551 • www.starrett.com 600 $209,685,000 Precision tools Douglas A. Starrett president, CEO & director 1880 17 Nypro, a Jabil Co. 101 Union St., Clinton 01510 978-365-9721 • www.nypro.com 575 DND Plastics Steve Borges executive vice president & CEO Nypro Healthcare 1955 18 Wyman-Gordon Co. 244 Worcester Road, North Grafton 01536 508-839-4441 • www.pccforgedproducts.com 555 DND Forgings Mark Donegan chairman & CEO 1883 19 Philips Lifeline 111 Lawrence St., Framingham 01701 800-380-3111 • www.lifelinesys.com 544 $23,000,000,000 5 Monitoring systems Frans van Houten president & CEO, Phillips N.V. 1974 20 The Dow Chemical Co. 6 455 Forest St., Marlborough 01752 508-481-7950 • www.dow.com 475 $48,158,000,000 Electronic materials, microelectronic, circuit board, packaging and finishing technologies Andrew Liveris CEO 1897 508-765-9744 • www.us.schott.com 33 Seaman Paper Cos. of MA Inc. 10 35 Wilkins Road, Gardner 01440 978-632-1513 • www.seamanpaper.com 248 DND Decorative tissue paper George D. Jones III CEO 1954 34 David Clark Co. Inc. 360 Franklin St., Worcester 01615 508-751-5800 • www.davidclark.com 225 DND Headset communication systems for high noise environments, marine, military and general aviation markets Richard Urella president 1935 35 Table Talk Pies Inc. 11 120 Washington St., Worcester 01610 508-798-8811 • tabletalkpie.com 220 DND Producer of desserts, snacks and pies in more than 16 varieties Harry Kokkinis president 1924 36 Georgia-Pacific Corp. 12 149 Hamilton St., Leominster 01453 978-537-4701 • www.gp.com 210 8 DND Plastic flatware James Hannan president & CEO 1987 37 Acacia Communications Inc. 3 Mill and Main Place, Suite 400, Maynard 01754 978-938-4896 • acacia-inc.com 200 $478,410,000 Provider of high-speed coherent optical interconnect products Murugesan Shanmugaraj president & CEO DND 38 Riverdale Mills Corp. 130 Riverdale St., Northbridge 01534 508-234-8715 • www.riverdale.com 185 DND Welded wire mesh and PVC-coated wire mesh products James Knott Jr. CEO 1980 39 Laddawn Inc. 155 Jackson Road, Devens 01434 800-446-3639 • laddawn.com 176 DND Manufacturer of packaging products Ladd Lavallee Dawn Seiple co-presidents 1976 40 Mexichem Specialty Compounds Inc. 170 Pioneer Drive, Leominster 01453 978-537-8071 • mexichemspecialtycompounds.com 175 DND Specialty compounds based in PVC, TPO, TPU and TPE compounds Daniel J. DeLisle general manager 1979 41 Spectrum Plastics Group 13 764 South Athol Road, Athol 01331 978-249-5343 • www.pexco.com 160 DND Plastic profile and tubing extrusions for medical, fence and custom markets Neil Shillingford CEO 1948 41 Worcester Envelope Co. 22 Millbury St., Auburn 01501 508-832-5394 • worcesterenvelope.com 160 DND Environmentally sustainable envelope printing Eldon D. Pond III president 1893 43 Harvard Bioscience Inc. 84 October Hill Road, Holliston 01746 508-893-8999 • www.harvardbioscience.com 150 DND Laboratory research equipment Jeffrey A. Duchemin president & CEO 1901 43 Incom Inc. 294 Southbridge Road, Charlton 01507 508-765-9151 • www.incomusa.com 150 DND Fused fiber optic solutions for the medical, scientific, display and defense industries Michael A. Detarando president & CEO 1971 43 Sealed Air Corp. 100 Westford Road, Ayer 01432 978-772-3500 • shrink-pkg.com 150 DND Manufacturer of shrink-packaging machinery Jerome Peribere, president & CEO Walter Drew, operations director 1961 46 Kopin Corp. 125 North Drive, Westborough 01581 508-870-5959 • kopin.com 140 $22,640,000 CyberDisplay products with transmissive LCD's that use single-crystal silicon transistors for the world's highest pixel density John Fan president & CEO 1985 46 New England Wooden Ware 205 School St., Gardner 01440 978-632-3600 • newoodenware.com 140 DND Corrugated containers and displays and litho-laminated packaging David Urquhart president 1834 46 Parker Hannifin Corp. 14 Robbins Pond Road, Devens 01434 978-784-1200 • parker.com 140 $11,400,000,000 Motion and control technologies and systems; precision- engineered solutions for a wide variety of mobile, industrial and aerospace markets Lea Collazzo general manager of fluid systems 1917 49 Advanced Cable Ties Inc. 245 Suffolk Lane, Gardner 01440 978-630-3900 • www.actfs.com 100 DND Plastic cable ties and cable tie removal tools Ken Tomasetti president 1994 49 Built-Rite Tool & Die Inc. 14 807, 851 Sterling Road, Lancaster 01523 978-365-9245 • builtrite-reliance.com 100 DND Precision molds for injection, compression, transfer, thermoplastics, thermosets and liquid silicone rubber for aerospace, automotive, electronics, medical and military industries Craig Bovaird president 1984 49 Cogmedix, a Coghlin Co. 17 Briden St., Worcester 01605 800-640-3760 • www.cogmedix.com 100 DND Turnkey manufacturing services to medical and dental OEMs Chris Coghlin president & CEO Matt Giza executive VP & GM 1885 49 First Plastics Corp. 22 Jytek Road, Leominster 01453 978-537-0367 • www.firstplastics.com 100 DND Plastic injection molding Edward Mazzaferro president 1988 49 Leaktite Corp. 40 Francis St., Leominster 01453 978-537-8000 • www.leaktite.com 100 DND Injection molded containers Rodney G. Sparrow president 1945 49 Simonds Saw 15 135 Intervale Road, Fitchburg 01420 800-343-1616 • www.simondsint.com 100 DND Metal cutting band saw technology David Miles president 1935 55 Patricia Fisher Elected James Green as its new board chair in June Hoping to supply its WireWall, which currently lines 31 miles of the U.S. border in Arizona and California, for President Donald Trump's proposed border wall Building a Worcester manufacturing site to produce 1 million pies per week One of the Worcester Business Journal's top innovative workspaces for 2016 Announced it would sell about 10 percent of its total outstanding shares of common stock to a Chinese company in January

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