Apr. 22, 2025 – FORGE’s Spring Startup Showcase celebrated some of the leading hardtech startups in our local innovation ecosystem, as well as 10 years of the FORGE Manufacturing Initiative. Tickets for the Showcase sold out early, so the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation in Waltham, MA was packed with enthusiastic attendees. Local…
Apr. 8, 2025 – A custom Cybertruck and a Volkswagen Buzz sit on the lawn out front. Shelves of innovative products line the entry hallway. It’s easy to tell interesting things are happening at product development company Gyre9’s Southbury, CT facility, even before you set foot on the factory floor. Gyre9 took us behind the…
Nov. 21, 2024 – We spent the night with some of Connecticut’s brightest and most enterprising minds! FORGE teamed up with Innovation Nights to show off physical products from amazing local companies at Innovation Nights Connecticut. It was a chilly, rainy day at GE Appliances’ CoCREATE Facility in Stamford, CT. But the arrival of more…
For its fourth year, the annual Manufacturing Mash-Up moved to Gillette Stadium for even more manufacturing ecosystem networking, panels, grants, and awards. FORGE joined in the fun as an event partner again. We brought some of our favorite manufacturers, suppliers, and startups to table at the event. Mark Michalski, one of our manufacturing experts in…
Sept. 17, 2024 – The lobby of Novo Precision in Bristol, CT, is deceptively quiet. Aside from the wire-forming and -cutting equipment on display, there’s little indication that beyond the lobby doors, ultra-accurate machines are clicking and clacking as they manipulate wires as thin as hairs into neat and perfect shapes. And this is just…
May 2, 2024 – In New Haven, Connecticut, regional manufacturing experts came together at the ClimateHaven innovation hub to advise startup founders on solving their hardest hardware challenges. Three hand-selected startups presented their physical product prototypes to a panel of eight seasoned manufacturing experts at the ClimateHaven and FORGE Rocket Pitch. Approximately thirty people joined the…
Apr. 24, 2024 – For the second year in a row, FORGE organized a Spring Startup Showcase to display some of the most exciting physical products in our local innovation ecosystem. The event sold out, with a large turnout at the Dassault Systemes 3DExperience Lab in Waltham, MA. Thank you to Dassault Systèmes for hosting…
Apr. 5, 2024 – If you’re looking for experts in design for manufacturing, look no further than Fikst Product Development. Recently, the Fikst team took our guests on a behind-the-scenes tour of their Wilmington, MA facility. In the 8,000 sq. ft. facility, engineers work in brightly lit shops, don frocks to go in the cleanroom,…
Nov. 16, 2023 – We loved seeing the Merrimack Valley innovation ecosystem come together for our panel event Connecting with Economic Development Opportunities for Hardware Startups! A small crowd joined us at the UMass Lowell Innovation Hub to network and take in the panel discussion. Mark Michalski, our Eastern MA manufacturing expert in residence, kicked…
Oct. 24, 2023 – The days might be getting shorter, but the fun is just beginning at FORGE. We recently threw our second startup showcase of the year. The Fall Startup Showcase displayed some of the best physical products in our local innovation ecosystem. More than 130 people filled the Dassault Systemes 3DExperience Lab in…
