Tenants
Fred Meyer, Engineer
Rob Cook, Engineer
Zyvex Performance Materials (ZPM) is the first company to provide carbon nanotube (CNT) powered products to the marketplace. We’ve seen that nanomaterials, such as CNTs, hold great promise as components in advanced polymer composites that enable lower weight, higher mechanical strength, and improved electrical and thermal performance.
We provide technology solutions and advanced products to our customers, in the areas of sporting goods, consumer products, defense applications, aerospace components, and the semiconductor and biomedical fields.
Moved into the Black Hills Business Development Center July 1, 2006.
Rob Christensen, PhD, Director of Optical Systems
Alces Technology creates components and systems for applications involving the manipulation of light by MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical-systems). Alces Technology headquarters are in Jackson, Wyoming. The Rapid City office focuses on prototypes and early development of new optical systems.
Moved into the Black Hills Business Development Center May 15, 2010.
David Springhetti, Manager, Rapid City Office
SDSM&T student interns
Innovative Systems develops the Application Peripheral (AP) system used by Independent Telecommunications Companies across the United States and in Canada. The AP is a multi-service platform making services such as voice mail, conference calling services, network announcements, and calling name database available to service providers. The AP is a universal platform designed to revolutionize the deployment of advanced services in the telecommunications industry.
Moved into the Black Hills Business Development Center May 28, 2007.
http://www.innovsys.com/
Bjornar Forsdal
ReforceTech develops, manufactures and sell non-metallic concrete reinforcement produced from basalt fiber. Its production method is patented and can produce basalt fiber reinforcing material 100 times faster than current methods. The product does not corrode and has a considerably lower density than steel. The reinforcing can be supplied in whatever form is required.
Moved into the Black Hills Business Development Center November 1, 2008.
Mr. Dana Rojo, IT Director
Sports Buzzard.Com LLC develops dynamic web sites that allow for local content management and coverage of high school sports. The Sports Buzzard provides full customer support for affiliate sites, all of which are tethered together based on geographical and demographic considerations.
Moved into the Black Hills Business Development Center May 1, 2009.
Stewart Huntington, President
iNK Barrel Video is developing and expanding its newspaper network for online video. The company has developed a video platform and content management system that allows newspapers to post video clips and real-time video streams onto the network. Ubiquitous online delivery of video is creating new consumer habits and dramatically disrupting traditional business paradigms in the television, cable and movie industries. iNK Barrel presumes that newspapers can capture a significant market share of this evolving market by arming itself with strong video production tools and connecting through a nationwide network. The company is in the process of further developing its video platform for live broadcasting and on-demand viewing of events such as high school and college sports, rodeo, political campaigns and other news worthy events. The network will grow through the addition of more newspaper customers, more channels, more visitors, and more video content.
iNK Barrel moved into the Black Hills Development Center February 1, 2010.
KLE is a first mover in the global commercialization of cellulosic ethanol using its proprietary, patent pending, thermal-mechanical pre-treatment process that takes non-food wood and herbaceous feedstock and reduces them to Cellulose, Hemicellulose and Lignin that is fermented into ethanol.
KL Energy moved into the Black Hills Development Center February 1, 2010.
Wayne Baumberger, Facility Manager
The Black Hills Engineering Design Center supports Caterpillar’s quality and velocity goals by
providing design and detailing services to the company’s facilities across the United States.
Caterpillar’s Black Hills Engineering Design Center moved into the Black Hills Development Center September 20, 2010.
CHR is the largest, single-source provider of business process outsourcing, engineering services, software solutions, and technology managed services to communications service providers across the globe.
Our team of industry experts from multi-faceted disciplines helps clients grow revenues and improve operations. CHR's local presence, national network and global reach provide the scale and skill to elevate your business. Our clients include: telephone, Internet, cable TV and wireless providers and city municipalities. We employ more than 500 team members with eleven offices and two network operating centers in five states and two countries. For more information, visit www.CHRSolutions.com.
CHR Solutions moved into the BHBDC October 2011
- Develop solutions that help make the world a better place
- Generate positive influences on all that Raven impacts
- Grow technology, people, and profitability.
- Generate positive influences on all that Raven impacts
- Grow technology, people, and profitability.
www.ravenind.com
Raven Industries moved into BHBDC March 2012