Cincinnati/Southwest Ohio: Growing Companies

Tulong is taking what might otherwise go into the waste stream to make sustainable clothing.

877-488-5664
6443 Lewis Road
Loveland, OH 45140

Besse Medical Supply in West Chester has accomplished what many small, family-run startups dream of: becoming part of a Fortune 26 company while holding onto family tradition.

800-543-2111
9075 Centre Pointe Drive, Suite 140
West Chester, OH 45069

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

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

Deploying new technology for growing the world's longest carbon nanotubes has created a world of possibilities for Cincinnati-based General Nano LLC in the aerospace/defense, biomedical, electronics and sensor industries.

513-309-5947
1776 Mentor Ave, Ste. 170
Cincinnati, OH 45212

Meridian makes, markets and distributes a broad range of diagnostic test kits, purified reagents and related products and technologies for a variety of biomedical customers in more than 60 countries.

513-271-3700
3471 River Hills Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45244

Akebia Therapeutics is banking on two revolutionary drugs for treatment of anemia, blood vessel leakage and cancer.

513-618-0931
10151 Carver Road, Suite 205
Cincinnati, OH 45242