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 ...

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 ...

There’s no doubt in Tony Colson’s mind that some of the first units off the line at Genesis Casket in Indianapolis will be destined for competitors’ shops in Batesville, Aurora and Pittsburgh, Pa. If ...

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 ...

Various images of monks and caskets photographed at the Trappist Casket manufacturing facility at the New Melleray Abbey near Peosta, Iowa. (Credit: Mark Hirsch.) Listen Honoring a departed loved one ...

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 ...