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Mass. Bioengineering Company Decides Against Move to Rhode Island

May 31, 2007, ABC 6 News WLNE TV

CANTON, MA (AP)—A Massachusetts bioengineering company has decided against an expansion in Rhode Island.

Instead, Canton-based Oranogenesis plans to stay in Massachusetts and expand there.

That's the word today from Governor Deval Patrick.

Organogenesis, which makes living skin substitutes, had been thinking about expanding in Rhode Island and had even picked out a site here.

But the president and C-E-O of the company, Geoff MacKay, says Patrick's commitment to promote life sciences research in Massachusetts helped convince the firm to stay.

Organogenesis will add 300 new highly skilled jobs, doubling its existing employee base and expanding its facilities to 250-thousand square feet.

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