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Fall River manufacturing is rich with interesting tidbits. Find fascinating factoids in Making it in Fall River.
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Drive down Bedford Street in fall River on any given morning, and there’s the unmistakable aroma of chow mein in the air. Even with hours to go until lunch, thoughts of piling the steaming fried noodles onto a fresh bun soon follow.
When or if Hy-SyEnce takes off as a manufacturer of wastewater treatment systems that both create power and eliminate methane as a by-product, it will all have started at the Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Center.
George Matouk is president of John Matouk & Co., Inc.
Sean Burke is the publisher of GateHouse Media New England’s Fall River operations, including the daily The Herald News and Herald News.com as well as the weekly O Jornal, O Jornal Brasiliero and El Latino Expreso.
Daniel Bogan is President and CEO of Borden & Remington Corp.
Daniel Bogan was born and raised in Fall River and is a graduate of B.M.C. Durfee High School and Southeastern Massachusetts University, now the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Alain Duval is Victor Innovatex CEO. Duval oversees the Canadian textile manufacturer that acquired a large piece of the bankrupt Quaker Fabric empire in 2007.
One of the great-great-great-grandfathers of Fall River industry, Colonel Richard Borden was born in 1795 and by 1812 was running a grist mill on the falls of the Quequechan River.
Robert Knight Remington was born in 1826, and would start the grocery store that became the mill supply company that became today’s Borden & Remington chemical company.
William C. Davol was the third in the 19th century triumvirate of Hawes, Davol and Marvel and the inventor of the three.
William Hawes learned his trade in the machine shop of Hawes, Marvel & Davol, owned in part by his father. In 1857, at age 24, he left to start the Hawes Machine Company. The firm bought and sold all kinds of industrial machinery.
William Marvel was born in 1800 in Swansea. Over the years, William Marvel would work as a shoe maker and would spend one season netting shad and herring in Taunton.
In 1909, 25 workers were sawing, cutting and shaping wood at 943 Pleasant St. and they were doing it for William Prosser, owner of Wm. Prosser & Son, the firm his British immigrant father started.
Victor Innovatex CEO Alain Duval knows how good timing can change lives. He’s seen it firsthand.
Duval, 48, oversees the Canadian textile manufacturer that acquired a large piece of the bankrupt Quaker Fabric empire in the summer of 2007. But he didn’t always envision himself running his family’s third-generation business.
There was a time when Eddie Abdow bumped around the city in his Frosty Beverage truck delivering bottled soda in a rainbow of flavors right to his customers’ doorsteps.
In many ways, Matouk is a traditional manufacturer.
Single-needle sewing machines operated by long-time stitchers make up a big part of the Matouk factory floor at 925 Airport Road. Embroidery workers sewing under a black light rely on a good eye, careful hands and years of practice.
They don’t have nuts, but they sure have soup.
Blount Fine Foods has been creating its fine, gourmet soups on Currant Road in the city’s Industrial Park for nearly four years now.
Better ingredients lead to better taste and better times.
— Stirrings’ company core philosophy
Layers of flavor and embellishment have dominated cooking in recent years, and that same urge to tickle the palate with only the finest ingredients has finally made it to the cocktail lounge.
The history of the newspaper is the history of the community. The paper’s archives go back to before the Civil War, telling stories of battles, hurricanes, births, marriages, sorrows and joys, national and local politics, local heroes and heroines, friends and neighbors.
The newspaper that is The Herald News was the result of a merger of three newspapers born in the 19th century: the Fall River News, which was founded in 1845; the Fall River Daily Herald, established in 1872; and the Fall River Daily Globe, established in 1885.
The state has made greater efforts in recent years to work with Massachusetts companies to help them grow, keep them in state, or attract new businesses with its Business Resource Team. On Oct. 14, the resource team will host “It’s All Here: Doing Business in Massachusetts Day” at the Statehouse in Boston, with an estimated 50 companies that make products in Massachusetts.
American Dryer Corporation recently secured capital funding for up to $300 million in order to place the Industrial Park-based company in line to acquire similar businesses.
The recapitalization was completed on July 23 by Stonebridge Partners, a private equity firm based in White Plains, N.Y.