Advanced and Alternative Energy: Growing Companies

Independence, Ohio

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Toledo, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio 45215

Tight budgets have become a way of life for school districts.  One Dayton company is enjoying steady growth with a long list of school clients by helping them save money.

7950 S. Co. Rd 25A
Tipp City, OH 45371

241 W Federal Street
Youngstown, OH 44503

An Athens-based company is primed to make a dent in the billion-dollar high performance cooling product market using an engine that's been around for almost 200 years.

6000 Poston Road
Athens, OH 45701

800-537-3370
480 W. Dussel Drive
Maumee, OH 43537

Pyrograf Products is the world's third-largest producer of carbon fibers, with a wide range of applications for its products.

937-766-2020
154 W. Xenia Ave.
Cedarville, OH 45314

Founded in 1995, Dovetail Solar and Wind began modestly, installing solar systems for rural-Ohio residents seeking to go off-the-grid.

419-913-0317
2600 Dorr St.
Toledo, OH 43606

In the biomass research business, AdvanceBio Systems, of Milford is gaining energy -- and attention from everybody but the U.S. Department of Energy to Penn State University.

513-864-6688
5405 DuPont Circle, Suite A
Milford, OH 45150

A solar array gathers sunlight for electricity. But something has to convert that energy from direct current to alternating current before it can be fed into an electric power grid. Toledo-based Nextronex Power Systems says it has come up with a simpler and more efficient way of doing that.

419-838-7889
4400 Moline Martin Road
Toledo, OH 43447

You don't have to be a meteorologist to know which way the wind turbine business is blowing. You just have to know that better models are on the way, thanks to companies like ADI Wind in Sheffield Village.

440-277-4141
4686 French Creek Road
Sheffield Village, OH 44054

Refractory Specialties Inc., a Sebring-based company that has a 40-year history of supplying insulation and other products for high-temperature manufacturing processes.

330-938-210
230 W. California Ave.
Sebring, OH 44672

Nexergy is working to develop the new generation of better, longer-lasting battery packs for today's high tech electronics and equipment.

614-351-2191
1909 Arlingate Lane
Columbus, 43228

At Tremco, it's not only about being a part of the "green" movement. It's about staying ahead of the curve.

800-852-9068
3735 Green Road
Beachwood, OH 44122

Christopher Clark's vision is to bring low-tech solar power to the developing world.

440-289-2380
10550 Carnegie Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44106

Juice Technologies is helping the University of Toledo with an energy audit and in managing the evolution of the institution as one that will someday leave no "carbon footprint." But the company sees a future in which it is also leader in management of plug-in vehicle charging and energy management technologies.

614-247-1610
930 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212

Transforming old tires and polymeric trash destined for the landfill into readily useable fuel. That's Vadxx's goal

440-591-8994
1768 East 25th St.
Cleveland, OH 44114

Akron-based Polyflow has a fantasy: turning trash to treasure.

330-253-5912
526 S. Main St., Suite 230
Akron, OH

Starting this summer you may see them zip past you on the road, glide up to parking meters and idle at the corner stop sign. But never at the gas station.

513-360-4704
4540 Alpine Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45242

Energy Technologies is working to take its fuel cell technology from the laboratory to the battlefield. And the Mansfield-based company hopes to add a few jobs along the way.

419-522-4444
219 Park Ave. East
Mansfield, OH 44902

Banking on a homegrown, high-tech solar cell system, GreenField Solar Corp. is positioned for a fast-paced growth.

440-596-6045
126 Artino St.
Oberlin, OH 44074

Quasar Energy Group is banking on the promise of alternative energies and an abundance of farm, food processing and other biomass that can be converted to electricity, gas and heat.

216-986-9999
7624 Riverview Road
Cleveland, OH 44141

Replex Plastics is working to commercialize solar components that work in less than optimal solar conditions by using mirrors on photovoltaic cells.

800-886-8847
P.O. Box 967
Mount Vernon, OH 43050

Parker Hannifin is known worldwide for manufacturing valves, fittings, hoses and dozens of other products. The Cleveland-based company can now add another product to its catalog.

216-896-3000
6035 Parkland Blvd.
Cleveland, OH 44124

Independence-based Novolyte Technologies, plans to invest $750,000 at its headquarters in 2010.

216-867-1040
8001 E. Pleasant Valley Road
Independence, OH 44131

As the nation's fifth-largest investor owned electric system, Akron-based First Energy has long provided conventional power to 4.5 million customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Now, it has taken a 92-acre first step toward a new kind of energy plant.

800-633-4766
76 South Main Street
Akron, OH 44308

Already one of the leading lift truck manufacturers in the world, Crown Equipment Corp. wants to be the industry leader in application of fuel cell technology.

419-629-2311
44 S. Washington St.
New Bremen, OH 45869

Words like "milking" and "feedlot" might be most commonly associated with a cow pasture. But for Highland Heights-based Phycal, something else comes to mind: Algae.

440-460-2477
51 Alpha Park
Highland Heights, OH 44143

Electricity in places like Appalachia and the deserts of the Middle East can be somewhat scarce. But with a little help from Cleveland-based Technology Management Inc., those places could be led from the dark.

216-541-1000
9718 Lake Shore Blvd.
Cleveland, OH 44108

Catacel is making waves supplying crucial materials for hydrogen fuel cells, heat-exchange systems and industrial hydrogen production.

330-527-0731
7998 Gotham Road
Garrettsville, OH 44231

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

Xunlight Corporation, a solar technology spin-off from the University of Toledo, is shining. The burgeoning company, based in Toledo, engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of photovoltaic modules that convert sunlight into electricity.

419-469-8600
3145 Nebraska Ave.
Toledo, OH 43607

Velocys, based in Plain City, is an advanced technology company commercializing processing systems to solve some of the energy and chemical industries' most daunting challenges.

614-733-3300
7950 Corporate Blvd.
Plain City, OH 43064