LUDLOW, MA—Meredith-Springfield Associates Inc., a plastics manufacturer specializing in blow-molded bottles, recently broke ground to add 5,000 square feet of light manufacturing space to its plant here.

ELBRIDGE, NY — Contract manufacturer Tessy Plastics announced plans to add 100,000 square feet of warehouse space to its 190,000-square-foot manufacturing plant here for additional storage of medical products.

GAITHERSBURG, MD—Created by a team including scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an advanced filtering material can extract the key ingredient in the most common form of plastic from a mixture of other chemicals while consuming far less energy than usual.