Business & Development

A new manufacturing business, ICS of Maine, will open by the end of the year in the Baileyville Industrial Park. Owned by Insulated Component Structures Inc.

Five Washington County business people responded to a recent report and action plan on Maine's economy, which argues for cutting government spending while investing in an innovation-based economy, by stating that they are not waiting for the state or "a white knight" to come in and help.

Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline LLC, which is planning to expand its natural gas pipeline in Maine to allow for additional volume from the Saint John liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, has filed a response to Quoddy Bay LNG's March 23 request to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

The Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point is negotiating to bring a manufacturing firm to produce a modular building system to the plant that formerly housed Gates Formed Fibre Products in Quoddy Village.

The last commercial natural pearl essence plant in the world will be closing in a few months.

Two companies seeking to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals on Passamaquoddy Bay filed their formal applications with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) within a week of each other.