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To protect the environment and provide a top-notch product at the same time, Plasticycle Technologies LLC developed a new way to recycle beverage bottles, grinding them down into granulated flakes that compete with virgin plastic resins on the worldwide market.
Some companies fold under pressure, others thrive. Middletown-based civil engineering company SGE is an example of the latter. The company has followed market opportunities where they led, growing first from a typical civil engineering firm in Rhode Island into a Middle East reconstruction firm and now, a domestic renewable energy project builder.
In the world of molecular science, serendipity is not simple luck.
In February, a doctor in Santiago, Chile, decided to forgo the usual procedure when treating a young man with a fractured bone in his hand.
Rhode Island’s defense-contractor sector has helped produce a number of innovations aimed at helping the U.S. military. But only one company in the sector can say that it is helping to keep the armed services, quite literally, on track.
As an answer to the escalating economic and environmental costs of maintaining storage at computing and data centers, GreenBytes Inc. has developed innovative deduplication inline storage appliances that run on one-third the power capacity – about 7 watts per terrabyte – and operate as a single-instance storage appliance that permits real-time, on-the-fly deduplication of file blocks as they are stored.
Shell Ferris had his brainstorm when he turned to the Internet for answers to a legal question.
One normally envisions shipping containers, those long boxy metal crates, stacked neatly on a barge or perhaps tucked in the corner of a construction site. But Providence firm distill studio found a decisively different use for them.
Imagine using a cell phone to relieve an asthmatic patient suffering from shortness of breath or a diabetic patient struggling through a hypoglycemic attack. A quick call is all it could take with a new skin patch produced by Warwick’s Isis Biopolymer.
The Potter League represents more than 80 years of commitment to providing shelter and care for lost, abandoned, neglected and unwanted animals in Newport County. In its latest incarnation – housed in its new 19,500-square-foot Animal Care and Education Center – the nonprofit has grown to offer a suite of services and programs that constitute a new standard in animal welfare.
Think children don’t like to eat vegetables? Think again, says Michelle Pugh, community service chef instructor at Johnson & Wales University.
“If the kids prepare it, they’re willing to try it,” she says.
When it comes to the battle of the bulge, Americans are losing the war. More than 66 percent of the nation’s population is overweight; 32 percent are obese.
Charlie Kroll, the CEO of Andera Inc., began his entrepreneurial career working out of his college dorm room when he was a student at Brown University, starting a boutique Web-development firm in 1999.
If you build a better mousetrap, will the world, as Ralph Waldo Emerson predicted, beat a path to your door?
When a few employees roll a 1,000-pound tank at Amgen Inc. in West Greenwich, they don’t consider it just another workday routine.
The Business Innovation Factory would appear to be a shoo-in for an innovation award. After all, innovation is, literally, its middle name.
The idea started out simply enough: More than three years ago, the Met Center wanted to offer a business class that lived up to the school’s mission of hands-on learning.
