By Megan Woolhouse

Massachusetts has its share of peacoat industry contractors, but none like this. By the end of the month, Sterlingwear Boston will have stitched about 40,000 peacoats this year for the Navy at the company's East Boston factory, where scores of workers sit at rows of sewing machines on a cement factory floor nearly the size of a football field.

It's like a set piece from a bygone era, when America was all about making things. Frank Fredella, the 84-year-old chief executive, often walks the floor, as he did on a recent morning, chatting with employees over the steady hum of 200 sewing machines.

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