wingmom

She wanted to help. Now Wingmom serves 5,000 clients

Betsy Price Business, Headlines

After Kate Maxwell’s firefighter fiancé died in the 2016 Canby Park fire, she crawled into a tunnel of grief and substance abuse. Nine months later, when she got sober with the help of her parents, she was overwhelmed with the amount of love and support she had been shown during that time. Her best friend, Meg Hurst, and others came …

biosciences

Bioscience leaders prime legislators on growth of sector

Betsy Price Business, Headlines

The First State’s growing biosciences industry has its roots in the 1992 creation of the Delaware Technology Park, state life sciences and technology advocates told a Senate committee today. Today, that sector of the economy is responsible for 11,000 jobs with $2 billion in gross domestic product, said Mike Fleming, president of DelawareBio, which advocates for and offers support to …

Right-to-repair bill Ruth Briggs King

Right-to-repair bill would make original parts available

Rachel Swick Mavity Government, Headlines

A right-to-repair bill filed in the Delaware General Assembly would require companies such as Apple and John Deere to provide manufacturer parts to fix their products outside of their own stores. House Bill 41, filed by Ruth Briggs King, R-Georgetown and Long Neck, would give individuals and small businesses access to technical parts needed to repair digital devices. That will …

Delaware State Chamber of Commerce Stacey Mobley

DuPont trailblazer given state chamber’s highest award

Betsy Price Business, Headlines

Stacey J. Mobley was given the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce‘s most prestigious award, the Josiah Marvel Cup, Monday during its annual dinner Monday night. Mobley, who was senior vice president, chief administrative officer, and general counsel of the DuPont Corp., was a champion of using technology-based materials and solutions to transform industries and life as well as being a …

Uvax Bio nanoparticle display platform

Vaccine company Uvax Bio sets $8M expansion in Delaware

Betsy Price Business, Headlines

  A Newark vaccine company will spend $8 million to expand in Delaware, adding 63 jobs over the next three years. Uvax Bio, considered an early stage biopharmaceutical company with cutting-edge vaccine platform technology, has been headquartered in Newark since 2018. where it has five employees. Its platform has produced both COVID-19 and HIV-1 vaccine candidates. The new positions will …

WuXi STA drug company

Chinese drug company breaks ground for Delaware campus

Betsy Price Business, Headlines

A Chinese pharmaceutical company broke ground in Middletown Tuesday for a 190-acre manufacturing plant expected to open in 2025 and employ 500 people full-time within a year. It will be WuXi STA‘s second facility in the United States, giving the Shanghai drug company greater capacity and flexibility. It’s the company’s first facility on the East Coast. Phase I of the …

MBNA to receive Pete du Pont Freedom award

Freedom Award to honor MBNA, innovation winner

Betsy Price Business, Headlines

The Pete du Pont Freedom Award this year for the first time will  honor a company rather than a person:  MBNA, the former Delaware banking and credit card powerhouse sold to Bank of America. It also will honor one of three companies as the Reinventing Delaware winner: Delaware Creative Economy, DWS Drone School and TRIC Robotics. The three were chosen …

Food Bank of Delaware CANgineering

Food Bank CANgineering sparks community creativity

Betsy Price Business, Headlines

A green and pink daisy created by Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority in its traditional colors was named Best in Show among the 25 entries in the 2022 Food Bank of Delaware‘s CANgineering competition. The contest is a food drive disguised as a structure building competition that gives entrants multiple ways to win while this year bringing in 17,000 pounds of …

fujiedit

Fujifilm exec: 2 plants may not be enough

Betsy Price Business, Headlines

    While Fujifilm celebrated the opening of the first of its two new ink manufacturing plants in Delaware Thursday, its president said Friday it may need more. “There might not be enough capacity,” Ian Wilkinson said. “So we need to think about what we do next.” Its 20-acre New Castle site will be home to Fujifilm Imaging Colorants Inc.’s …

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Fujifilm opens first of two new inkjet facilities

Staff Writer Business, Headlines

Fujifilm on Thursday opened the first of two new manufacturing plants that will produce printer inks. The New Castle site is Fujifilm Imaging Colorants Inc.’s first dispersion manufacturing facility in the U.S.  Its $19 million investment will create more than 21 new professional, managerial, engineering and skilled labor jobs. The 8,100-square-foot facility includes manufacturing and process control equipment is in …