(Spring Creek & Morrisville, N.C.) Montie Design (www.montie.com), an innovative concept-to-marketplace product design and development firm, today announced Luca Harrell (Va Tech), Jake Eck (NCSU), and Josh Little (NCSU) as the winners of its Winter 2012 Student Design Contest. The competition tasked aspiring product designers with developing camp cooking, washing, or equipment storage and organizational products that would fit with the Montie Gear line (www.montiegear.com) of outdoor, shooting, hunting, archery, and camping products. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) Stackpole today announced the release of its RACF10 Series of concave thick film chip resistor arrays. The RACF102D is a two-element array in a 0404 overall package size. The RACF104D is a four-element array in a 0408 overall package size. Chip resistor arrays offer a significant space savings over discrete chip resistors as well as improved tolerance and TCR tracking. The RACF10 size is available with a 5% tolerance. The RACF10 Series provides a space savings of more than 60% versus the RACF16 Series. (more…)

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) Mustard Tree Instruments®, continuing to lead the way in developing innovative solutions to evolving pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing challenges, shared best practices and new products to address quality control issues at the major industry tradeshow Pittcon 2012, the world’s largest annual conference and exposition for laboratory science March 11-16. Todd Blonshine, CEO, presented twice during the event on emerging multi-variant approaches to obtaining immediate, unambiguous results from drug product samples, in addition to hosting demos of his company’s VTT-1000 and VPS-1000 at-line and in-process raw material testing instrumentation. (more…)

(Cary, N.C.) LORD Corporation – a leader in the management of motion, vibration and noise, and a supplier of adhesive products – has announced that Vince Sadd, director, Global Business Development, will speak at the AIChE Spring Meeting & 8th Global Congress on Process Safety. The meeting will be held April 1-5 at the Hilton Americas-Houston and George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. Sadd’s topic is entitled “Leveraging Open Innovation – Experiences in the Small Business Universe.” (more…)

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) Reichhold Industries, Inc. (“Reichhold” or the “Company”) announced yesterday that it has reached an agreement in principle with institutions holding more than 70% (the “Exchanging Noteholders”) in principal amount of the Company’s outstanding 9% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2014 (the “Senior Notes”) on the terms of an exchange transaction that would significantly reduce the Company’s cash debt service obligations and provide the Company with enhanced financial, operational and strategic flexibility. (more…)

(Kings Mountain, N.C. & Montreal, Quebec) Trimera Group has announced that after over a year of investments in an owned production facility, they will be officially launching the Montreal-based development and production center, Catalyst I, in March 2012, along with a North Carolina-based facility also focused on domestic production and development. Both facilities will offer state of the art design centers for on-site development, as well as the latest in seamless knitting innovations. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) Xerium Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:XRM), a leading global manufacturer of industrial textiles and rolls used primarily in the paper production process, today introduced Formsoft, an advanced tissue forming fabric technology specifically designed to help its tissue fabric customers improve operational performance at lower costs. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) Stackpole has added a 2 watt size to their LCB Series of flameproof low resistance value ceramic housed wirewound resistors.  The LCBF2 adds to the broad line of current sensing resistors from Stackpole. The CBF and LCBF2 resistors also provide housings with standoffs to help reduce the temperatures seen by the PCB. The welded wirewound resistive element is available in values from 0.05 ohms to 0.33 ohms in 5% tolerance. (more…)

(Spring Creek & Morrisville, N.C.) Montie Design, an innovative concept-to-marketplace product design and development firm, today announced it will be holding a Winter 2012 Student Design Contest for aspiring product designers in community colleges, four-year colleges, or high schools from North Carolina and Virginia. Initial submissions are due on Feb 1, 2012 with final submissions due on Feb 29, with full details available online at www.montie.com/contest. (more…)

(Charlotte, N.C.) Carlisle Companies Incorporated (NYSE:CSL) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Tri-Star Electronics International, Inc., a leading worldwide supplier of electronic interconnect components for mission-critical applications for commercial aerospace, defense and industrial customers. (more…)

(Morrisville, N.C.) Montie Design, an innovative concept-to-marketplace product design and development firm, has added to its ever-expanding line of popular Montie Gear hunting and camping equipment with a fun new lightweight slingshot for outdoor enthusiasts of all ages. The high-tech slingshot features a sturdy aluminum frame for unrivaled strength, a tapered flat band and leather pouch assembly. Like all of the products available at www.montiegear.com or via the Montie Gear store on Amazon.com, the Montie Gear slingshot is made in the USA. (more…)

(Cary, N.C.) LORD Corporation – a leader in the management of motion, vibration and noise, and a supplier of adhesive products – has announced a new Web portal, “Invent with LORD,” to support its existing Open Innovation program. The new Web portal will increase the pace of innovation, in targeted areas, by improving LORD Corporation’s ability to leverage outside resources. (more…)