Growing Companies

Aerospace companies with a tie to Orville Wright are something special. Hartzell Propeller is the latter.

937-778-4200
One Propeller Place
Piqua, OH 45356

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

A Cincinnati-area company is helping schools answer one of the toughest questions in the Internet Age.

877-517-1125
3630 Park 42 Drive, Suite 170F
Cincinnati, OH 45241

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

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

Createable Learning Concepts helps children with motor skills deficiencies develop higher levels of independence and achievement through a set of innovative shapes that they can more easily grasp.

419-873-5991
26488 Mingo Drive
Perrysburg, OH 43551

You have a zillion bookmarks set up in your browser's favorites list. You've also come across must-see content that you want to share with friends. The problem is, when it comes time to share those things, you find yourself wading through an unorganized morass of bookmarks. Enter Toobla.

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1275 Kinnear Rd.
Columbus, OH 43212

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

As a urological surgeon for OhioHealth, Wayne Poll knew there must be a way to keep his laparoscopic lenses clear without constantly having to stop and clean them. While it took him 10 years to bring that vision to fruition, Poll's FloShield is now in the marketplace.

614-484-5036
1275 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212

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