Then and Now
Then and Now: Bay State Commons
Westborough's Bay State Abrasives featured in Life Magazine in 1957.
For many years, before Westborough had a Panera Bread or a Roche Brothers grocery store, drivers waiting to enter the rotary would look towards the present-day Bay State Commons and see the smoke tower of Bay State Abrasives. At one point, the company employed 1,000 people from the Westborough area and supplied grinding wheels to General Motors, one of their largest clients. Westborough and Bay State Abrasives were even featured in a short national story in Life Magazine regarding the company's success in January of 1957. In 1964, according to Bay State Surface Technologies, Avco Corporation bought Bay State Abrasives to further develop their plasma spray systems and trade-marked PlasmaGun. Over the next few decades, the company changed …
In this Article:
