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Manufacturing expanded in April at the slowest pace this year and companies took on the fewest workers in seven months, adding to evidence of a slowdown in the world’s largest economy.
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Portsmouth-based boatyard, New England Boatworks Inc. will pay a $31,500 penalty and take steps to reduce air emissions at its facility under a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA announced Wednesday.
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By PBN Staff
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White Plains, N.Y.-based Handy & Harman Ltd.’s subsidiary Lucas-Milhaupt Inc. has acquired the assets of Wolverine Joining Technologies, the companies announced Monday.
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By PBN Staff
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Gasoline prices in the Ocean State fell 2 cents this week in the eighth consecutive week of price declines, AAA Southern New England reported Monday.
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A.T. Cross Co. saw its bottom line rise 6.6 percent to $1.6 million, or 13 cents per diluted share, from the first quarter of 2012 to the first quarter of 2013, the personal- and business-accessories maker announced after the market closed on Thursday.
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Passenger traffic at T.F. Green Airport rose 4.6 percent in March compared with March 2012 to 335,578, according to numbers released Thursday by the R.I. Airport Corporation.
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Toray Plastics (America) Inc. has invested roughly $15 million to expand its North Kingstown facility and install new coating equipment in order to meet the customer demand for “value-added films with advanced specialty layers,” said a company release.
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Sales of new U.S. homes advanced in March as near record-low mortgage rates helped the industry complete the strongest quarter since 2008, putting the economy on firmer footing.
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The U.S. Navy has awarded a $20 million contract modification to General Dynamics Electric Boat for nuclear-maintenance work for submarines.
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Sensata Technologies Holding N.V. reported a bottom line of $34.7 million, or 19 cents per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2013, a 10.9 percent decline from the $38.9 million, or 21 cents per diluted share, reported during the first quarter of 2012.
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