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ASPEX  (Delmont, PA)

www.aspexcorp.com

Provides seamlessly integrated, microanalysis solutions for a wide range of production environment applications, including critical cleanliness, micro-contamination analysis, product purity, contamination diagnostics, predictive maintenance, and other statistical process control initiatives. 

     

 

EcoSMART Technologies (Alpharetta, GA)

www.ecosmart.com

Develops and markets proprietary, natural pesticides derived from botanical oils.  The company’s product line consists of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and insect repellents.  Compared to conventional pesticides, EcoSMART products deliver comparable to superior performance at similar prices while being much safer to use for people, pets and the environment.

   

 

 

DemandPoint (Englewood, CO)

www.demandpointinc.com

DemandPoint was formed from the merger of Pelion Systems, a market leader in Lean Manufacturing Operating Systems, and JCIT International, the pioneer of award-winning Demand Flow Technology. DemandPoint empowers companies to streamline the value chain, achieve perfect order performance and collapse the order-to-cash cycle utilizing demand-driven fulfillment strategies that bridge a company’s business model to its operating platform. DemandPoint is bringing to market education, assessments, engagements and software applications in a comprehensive, integrated offering.

     

  SkyBitz (Sterling, VA)
www.skybitz.com
Provides a substantially superior solution for the wide-area tracking and monitoring of non-powered assets.  The patented system achieves the accuracy of Global Positioning System (GPS) utilizing a smaller, lower cost device that is thirty times more power efficient than the GPS-based competition.
     
  Five Star Technologies (Independence, OH)
www.fivestartech.com
Creates nanostructured materials and advanced processes using its patented Control Flow Cavitation (CFC) process technology. CFC allows for the creation of new or enhanced materials with physical and functional properties far superior to existing materials. These enhanced properties have significant economic and technological advantages for customers by enabling the creation of new products, improving existing products and enhancing customer processes to reduce overall material and processing costs.
     
 

Arisdyne Systems (Cleveland, OH)

www.arisdyne.com

Specializes in the design, development, and implementation of fully integrated Continuous Flow Cavitation systems for enhancing the efficiency and economics of both biodiesel and ethanol fuel production to help fuel manufacturers reduce costs, speed up production and increase quality. As the pioneering authority in the use of cavitation to produce biofuels, Arisdyne is at the forefront of the alternative energy industry with 19 U.S. patents and more than 50 international patents.

     

NorthPeak
WIRELESS

 

 

NorthPeak Wireless (Alpharetta, GA)

www.northpeakwireless.com

Holds proprietary technology in the direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) field. These valuable DSSS technologies are used in a variety of wireless data devices and applications including wireless meter reading, satellite data transmitters, industrial controls, access control, security and remote monitoring.
 

     

Portfolio Company Exits

     

Axonn, LLC

  Axonn, LLC (Covington, LA)
www.axonn.com
A leading provider of spread spectrum radio frequency technology solutions. The Company offers a full suite of plug-and-play spread spectrum devices (transmitters, receivers and transceivers) which have been adapted to a broad range of sensing, monitoring, control and internet and intranet enabling applications.
     

  Ecovation (fka AnAerobics) (Victor, NY)
www.ecovation.com
Unique and proprietary anaerobic solution for the treatment of organic industrial waste streams using patented technologies that, in addition to providing an economically superior method for processing industrial wastewater, create opportunities for the production and capture of renewable energy.

   

Constructw@re

  Constructw@re (Alpharetta, GA)
www.constructware.com
Project management software for the construction industry.

  

 

 

PCDI, LLC

PCDI, LLC (DePere, WI)
PCDI is a holding company that owns controlling interests in three niche forest products companies: Oconto Falls Tissue, ReBox Packaging, and Fay-Penn Fiber. These companies use low cost, recycled materials as feed-stocks, state-of-the-art equipment, and proprietary technologies to process recycled materials into finished products.

 

 
 

TPTC

Tissue Products Technology Corp. (TPTC) (DePere, WI)
Acquired Oconto Falls Tissue, a manufacturer of premium tissue products made from virgin pulp and pulp generated from mixed office waster paper.

 

 

Hartford Steel Technologies, LLC (HST)

Hartford Steel Technologies, LLC

Hartford Steel Technologies, LLC (HST) (Hartford, CT)
HST uses its proprietary technologies to produce high value specialty chemicals and metals from industrial waste streams. Backed by 15 patents, HST’s technology produces high purity zinc oxide and valuable metals from EAF Dust, a hazardous waste produced in the steelmaking process.