According to Boston.com, Ames Safety Envelope, a longstanding company in Massachusetts, has been sold, thereby eliminating 150 manufacturing jobs in Boston (click here).

The new owner of Ames Safety Envelope is TAB, a Wisconsin-based records management company with offshoots in Europe, Canada, and Australia.

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One company’s decision to move positions out of Massachusetts could result in the loss of some manufacturing jobs in Boston.

3M Co recently announced that it plans to stop manufacturing operations in the state, a move that will result in about 200 layoffs. The jobs will be moved from Southbridge, Mass., to other sites throughout the world. About 50 non-manufacturing jobs will remain at the site.

The layoffs are expected to be complete by early 2010. 3M, which is based in Minneapolis, cut about 1,000 jobs during Q2, leaving about 76,000 employees with the company.

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