BATESVILLE, Ind. — Hillenbrand, Inc. announced Thursday it has agreed to sell its Batesville Casket business to a private equity firm for $761.5 million. The casket manufacturing operation will remain ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

As the tours come in each day, some of the people who work at Trappist Caskets believe their mission is much deeper than a typical business. “Sometimes it’s like they find us and I think it’s the work ...