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. more

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. more

Toy and game maker Hasbro Inc. saw its net loss widen 159 percent from $2.6 million, or 2 cents per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2012 to $6.7 million, or 40 cents per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2013, the company announced Monday. more

Honda will begin shipping autos to the Port of Davisville in 2014, a “key sign of growth in the port’s emergence as one of the largest auto-importers in North America,” the Quonset Development Corporation announced Friday. more

Iconic toy- and game-maker Hasbro Inc. has formed a collaboration with World Trade Jewelers to create and distribute jewelry designs replicating some of Hasbro’s products. more

Textron Inc. – parent of Bell Helicopter, Cessna Aircraft Company and Textron Systems – posted net income of $119 million, or 41 cents per diluted share, during the first quarter, a very slight increase from the $118 million, or 40 cents per diluted share, it posted during the first quarter of 2012. more

Manufacturing in the New York region expanded less than projected in April as orders cooled and sales stagnated. more

Hasbro Inc. has earned a spot on CR Magazine’s “100 Best Corporate Citizens” list for the second consecutive year, this year moving into the top 10, at No. 7. more

Hanna Instruments Inc., one of the world’s leading privately held manufacturers of electro-analytical instrumentation, has opened a new sales and distribution center in Sursee, Switzerland, the company announced Thursday. more

Orders placed with U.S. factories increased in February, boosted by a pickup in demand for motor vehicles and commercial aircraft. more