Instruments - Controls - Electronics: Growing Companies

YSI began in the late 1940s when two entrepreneurial-minded engineers joined a chemist and formed Yellow Springs Instruments.

800-765-4974
1700/1725 Brannum Lane
Yellow Springs, OH 45387

Al Wofford founded CDO Technologies 15 years ago based on a simple "can do" philosophy of business. In fact, if you look closely, Can DO is right there in the name.

937-258-0022
5200 Springfield St., Suite 320
Dayton, OH 45431

Touch Bionics' mechanical wizardry, some of which seemed the stuff of sci-fi not long ago, is helping thousands of people affected by medical conditions, industrial and agricultural accidents -- even war veterans.

614-388-8086
3455 Mill Run Drive, Suite 310-B
Hilliard, OH 43026

3-D imaging has come a long way since the days of those funky paper eyeglasses in the movies. Today it's being used to design sophisticated software with applications for everything from mapping to gaming.

937-461-5660
4454 Idea Center Blvd.
Dayton, OH 45430

In the early '90s companies in need of material-exposure experiments in space came to Bob Schmidt, the founder of Orbital Research Inc.

216-649-0399
4415 Euclid Ave. Suite 500
Cleveland, OH 44103

Zia Systems turned a company equipment theft into a business idea to remotely track and monitor large on site construction equipment.

937-521-3086
250 Veronia Drive
Springfield, OH 45505

The folks at InSeT Systems want to eliminate mining deaths caused by an inability to locate those trapped underground.

330-434-0202
526 S. Main St., Suite 710B
Akron, OH 44311

Innova once made the delivery boxes that kept your pizza warm. Today, it's developing systems designed to keep the heat off of American military personnel.

937-436-1064
130 Westpark
Dayton, OH 45459

Dayton-based STAN Solutions was launched in 2002 to answer three questions that have dogged militaries for centuries: Where am I? Where are my buddies? And where is the enemy?

937-531-6637
714 E. Monument Ave. , Suite 117
Dayton, OH 45402

Lewis Center-based NexTech, formed in 1994, does business in 35 countries and offers more than 100 products, mostly related to ceramic materials used in solid oxide fuel cells.

614-842-6606
404 Enterprise Dr.
Lewis Center, OH 43035

Hiking the Appalachian Trail, Tremont Electric, LLC owner Aaron LeMieux realized that he was generating loads of kinetic energy. Today, Tremont is harnessing that kinetic energy for handheld electronics.

440-821-1889
2379 Professor Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44113

In just 20 years, Columbus-based Srico has quite the resum�. The innovative hi-tech company makes integrated optical waveguide components and optoelectronic subsystems � and boasts a broad spectrum of customers.

614-799-0664
2724 Sawbury Blvd.
Columbus, OH 43235