ALBANY — The Mount Washington Valley may not be known as a manufacturing hub, but that doesn’t mean those businesses aren’t here.
When U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan visited Ambix Manufacturing Inc., a plastics fabricator located just south of Conway, last Friday, she talked with Ambix principals, President Melissa Florio and Engineer Jeffrey Nicoll, about how businesses like Ambix are a hidden sector of the local economy.
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