SOUTHFIELD—A team of high school students from Berkley High School was recognized as the winner of the 2018-19 ACE Mentor Program of Michigan in an honors dinner Tuesday night at Lawrence Technological University. The ACE Mentor – Michigan (an acronym for Architecture, Construction, Engineering) program teaches high school students about the wide range of career
LANSING—Multimatic Sales & Marketing Inc. will build an advanced vehicle development and driving simulation center in Novi with support from the Michigan Strategic Fund, the Michigan Economic Development Corp. announced. The company is a subsidiary of Markham, Ontario-based Multimatic Inc., a global supplier of engineered components, systems, and services to the automotive industry. The project, the
ANN ARBOR—Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc., the developer of “spider silk” textiles through genetic engineering, announced that its subsidiary Prodigy Textiles has signed a new five-year lease on a 50,000-square-foot factory in Quang Nam province, Vietnam. Company officials, in a press release, said the new factory “is expected to play a major role in supporting the
ANN ARBOR—Though the Detroit River delivers one-quarter of the phosphorus that flows into Lake Erie, there’s never been a detailed accounting of the nutrient’s urban and agricultural sources across the entire binational watershed. The uncertainty created by this knowledge gap has complicated efforts to develop a regional strategy for reducing phosphorus inputs to Lake Erie,
LIVONIA—PSI Repair Services Inc., the Livonia-based service provider to the wind energy industry, announced that it recently surpassed 40,000 repaired wind turbine parts for the wind energy market, following a busy 2018. PSI offers component repair and engineering services for GE, Vestas, Gamesa, Siemens, RePower, Acciona, Suzlon, Nordex, Mitsubishi, and Clipper wind turbines. PSI covers
DETROIT—Airspace Experience Technologies, an aviation technology start-up that is developing an electric-powered vertical takeoff and landing aircraft that can be rented by the public, announced the launch of an equity funding round through the crowdfunding platform SeedInvest. The company, based at Detroit City Airport, seeks to produce and operate fleets of safe, reliable, emission-free aircraft.
ANN ARBOR—Pixel Velocity, the Ann Arbor-based provider of industrial Internet of Things software and services, announced the addition of several new executives. Pixel Velocity’s Event Velocity is a digital operations software platform for automating the monitoring and management of remote and hazardous assets. Patrick Talley joined the company as executive vice president of sales. Talley has
WATERLOO, Ontario - Advancements in zero-emission fuel cells could make the technology cheap enough to replace traditional gasoline engines in vehicles, according to researchers at the University of Waterloo. The researchers have developed a new fuel cell that lasts at least 10 times longer than current technology, an improvement that would make them economically practical,
MADISON HEIGHTS—Metro Wireless, an internet service and telecommunications provider, announced an expansion of its services to Rochester, Novi, Livonia, Romulus, and surrounding areas. The services, at speeds of 100 mbps download and 20 upload, or 200 download and 40 upload, will be available by June 30, company officials said. “Our new asymmetrical tiers are great
PLYMOUTH—Wayne County businesses have joined forces to partner with the SME Education Foundation to make available education opportunities for students of Starkweather Academy, an alternative and adult education program that is part of the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools. Seven companies—Alpha USA, Clips and Clamps Industries, Link Engineering Co., Loc Performance Products Inc., Master Automatic Inc., Roush Industries Inc.,
