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2 0 1 7 • S T U F F 53 Largest local manufacturers Ranked by number of local employees as of March 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 Rd. 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 Johnson Controls 4 50 Technology Drive, Westminster 01441 978-731-2500 • www.tycosimplexgrinnell.com 700 5 $37,700,000,000 6 Fire alarm, sprinkler, and suppression; integrated security; emergency communications; sound and nurse call systems and services. Alex Molinaroli CEO 1894 7 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 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 8 Monitoring systems Frans van Houten president & CEO, Phillips N.V. 1974 20 The Dow Chemical Co. 9 455 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 21 Gentex Optics Inc. 183 W. Main St., Dudley 01571 508-943-3860 • www.essilorusa.com 450 $6,688,100,000 10 Optics Hubert Sagnières CEO 1989 22 Columbia Tech, a Coghlin Co. 27 Otis St., Westborough 01581 508-753-2354 • www.columbiatech.com 400 DND Contract manufacturer to bioscience, energy, defense, digital and molecular imaging, semiconductor and data storage industries Christopher Coghlin president & CEO 1885 11 23 Cognex Corp. 1 Vision Drive, Natick 01760 376 $521,000,000 Barcode readers and machine system readers manufacturing Robert Willett president & CEO 1981 Source: Each company via survey, Massachusetts Manufacturers Register and company web- sites. Notes: Cains Foods, part of Illinois-based TreeHouse Foods since 2013, closed its Ayer fa- cility in January. Cybex International Inc. was acquired by Illinois-based Brunswick Corp. in Jan. 2016; its Medway office is in the process of closing. Unable to confirm data for Boxborough's Cisco Systems Inc., Oxford's Technetics Group or Westborough's Pall Life Sciences/Danaher Corp. DND = Did not disclose. 1 2.6 billion EUR; conversion of revenue into dollars by the 2016 yearly average exchange rate of .94 used by the IRS. 2 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; worldwide employees and revenue are from Forbes. 3 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. 4 Cork, Ireland-based Johnson Controls acquired Tyco SimplexGrinnell in Sept. 2016. 5 Figure for operations in Westminster as of spring 2016 6 Figure for Johnson Controls 7 Founding year for Gardner's original Simplex Time Recorder Co. 8 24.5 billion EUR; conversion of revenue into dollars by the 2016 yearly average exchange rate of .94 used by the IRS. 9 Merger with DuPont pending