High Tech: Growing Companies

SignTrak has developed user friendly software that cuts down on headaches and errors in the alcohol beverage industry's sign selling process.

800-513-9194
2943 Riverside Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Global Neighbor is an eco-conscious lawn and garden product company working to put the Green back into lawn care.

937-285-0990
2000 Composite Drive
Dayton, OH 45420

Athens-based Sunpower soon could see its super-efficient engine technology blast into the heavens though a partnership with NASA.

740-594-2221
182 Mill St.
Athens, OH 45701

Ice on your car's windshield is a seasonal nuisance, removed with elbow grease and a plastic scraper. Ice on an airplane is much more serious.

440-951-4744
1625 Lost Nation Road
Willoughby, OH 44094

Melody Management is helping music artists to get seen, get heard and get paid. Sound like a pitch from a giant record label? Not so fast.

118 Graceland Blvd., Suite 308
Columbus, OH 43214

Disney, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Advance Auto Parts know what's hot; all have tapped Youngstown's SenSource to count "people traffic" through thermal imaging technology.

800-239-1226
3890 Oakwood Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44515

In the middle of Preble County, surrounded by the small town of Eaton and the cornfields beyond, stands an anomaly: Silfex.

937-472-3311
950 S. Franklin St.
Eaton, OH 45320

Innotech Products Ltd., of Cincinnati, is known to scores of soldiers and survivalists as the Heater Meals company, but recently has begun offering a self-heating beverage kit.

1-800-503-4483
311 Northland Blvd.
Cincinnati, OH 45246

While recent economic woes have forced a number of established businesses to shutter, one long-lived Ohio manufacturer is thriving through innovation.

800-848-4930
15441 Scioto-Darby Road
Mt. Sterling, OH 43143

A former marketer, Jack Berlekamp formed Pallas Systems to take advantage of knowledge garnered as a contractor for the armed forces, where workers handled specialized electronic instruments out in the field.

937-523-0066
P.O. Box 27
Springfield, OH 45501

CKS Solution, Inc. in southwest Ohio's Batavia Township, is a fast-growing, innovative manufacturing startup founded in February 2008. Since its founding, CKS has more than doubled its U.S. workforce from 26 earlier this year to 57 today.

513-947-1277
4101 Founders Blvd.
Batavia, OH 45103

Butler County-based Kaivac has found a way for janitors and other personnel to not just clean but sanitize the most grungy items without directly touching them -- all with use of "green" chemicals.

1-800-287-1136
401 S. Third St.
Hamilton, OH

If you've ever come home from the hardware store with hundreds of little stamp-sized paint color swatches and tried to match them to your couch or carpet, you'll appreciate a new product that Miamisburg-based Color Savvy Systems Limited is introducing in 2010.

937-885-9000
3090 S. Tech Blvd
Miamisburg, OH 45342

Imagine the typical American teenager, and you may get a glimpse of the vision behind Iya Technologies.

937-439-0620
2090 Hewitt Avenue
Dayton, OH 45440

Cold Jet, based in Loveland, specializes in dry ice blasting systems as a way to accomplish heavy-duty cleaning in an environmentally responsible manner.

1-800-337-9423
455 Wards Corner Road
Loveland, OH 45140