A Canadian distributor of caskets and other funeral supplies plans to locate its first U.S. manufacturing plant in Cleveland, at a 67,000-square-foot facility on the city's West Side. On Monday, Jan.

The woodworking factory in East Boston, Massachusetts, has lots in common with big cabinet and furniture operations. There is a rough mill area dimensioning stock, CNC routers, moulders, and a line of ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Imagine the remains of your dearly departed loved one being flushed down the drain. That's the grisly image Rep. Dick Hamm conjured in a speech on the floor of the Indiana House that ...

Hillenbrand is well known as holding company of Batesville Casket Co. Over the past five years, Hillenbrand has strategically acquired three new businesses in deals worth $1.2 billion CEO says ...

First it was the rise in cremations. Now Bill Backman III and his clients at Aurora Casket Co. Inc. are competing with mass retailers like Wal-Mart, Costco and even Amazon.com for casket sales. You ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — With COVID-19 deaths climbing nationwide, the end of life industry has seen a boom since the beginning of the pandemic. A casket-making business in Winston-Salem shared sobering ...

Casket and coffin manufacturers’ revenue has risen 5.1% this year as more than 150,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. This story is part of Houston Public Media’s ongoing coronavirus coverage.

Achievements: 73.1% reduction in returns as a percent of production since 2002. Excellence Achievement Award from National Safety Council for 1 million work hours without a lost work day in 2005. At ...