Category Archives: NPR StateImpact

P.A.T. Products, which distributes specialty chemicals, plastic and raw materials, is moving to Pease International Tradeport. According to the Union Leader, the company was pursued by the New Hampshire Division of Economic Development. Source: Unionleader February 27. 2013 9:56PM P.A.T. Products, an international distributor of specialty chemicals, plastic and raw materials, has relocated its corporate [...] Continue reading →

New Hampshire is attracting more young video game designers. The question is, can the state capture profits by keeping their companies in state? New Hampshire Public Radio’s Ryan Lessard has this story about young designers facing the allure of Boston:  New Hampshire is the birthplace of video games. No, really. Just ask 90-year-old Manchester resident [...] Continue reading →

Thursday, the New Hampshire Senate will vote on a bill that would increase the state’s research and development tax credit funding from $1 million to $2 million beginning this year. Last year, 111 qualifying businesses shared that $1 million – so that the 58 businesses who qualified for the maximum credit of $50,000 received $12,065 [...] Continue reading →

This move allows Hypertherm to move into a new market–”waterjet cutting technologies.” Source: Nhbr Friday, January 4, 2013 Hypertherm, the Hanover-based manufacturer of advanced cutting systems, has acquired a Minnesota-based maker of waterjet cutting products. Company officials said the acquisition of AccuStream means the firm can now add waterjet cutting technologies to its menu, which [...] Continue reading →

New Hampshire may have weathered the recession relatively well, but as other states’ economies are growing, New Hampshire’s is slowing down.  That’s the word from the Center for Public Policy Studies, which released a report this week outlining some discouraging trends in New Hampshire’s economy. One of the study’s authors, Dennis Delay, spoke with NHPR’s Brady [...] Continue reading →

Just 21 percent of all arts and culture organizations in New Hampshire create a total of $115 million in economic activity in the state. That’s according to a report released today by the N.H. State Council on the Arts. Those 161 organizations support the equivalent of 3,493 full-time jobs, and generate $11.6 million in local [...] Continue reading →

NORTHUMBERLAND — The former Groveton paper mill, closed by Wasau Paper in 2008, was named in a recent study as a potential “launch pad” for a cluster of industries organized around making full use of a native New Hampshire resource — wood chips. Source: Unionleader The technology involved, patented by SUNY, is environmentally friendly; pure [...] Continue reading →

When celebrated Concord resident and high school teacher Christa McAuliffe died in the Challenger explosion in 1986, an out-of– state donor offered $500,000 to build a monument in downtown Concord. As then-mayor Jim MacKay remembers, the city declined. Instead, the state built a planetarium. Today – 26 years after the state opened the McAuliffe Planetarium [...] Continue reading →