Technology

Water-from-air company targets oil, gas industries

Company scales up units; profitability remains elusive

November 6, 2014

Ambient Water Inc., a Spokane-based company that manufactures systems that make pure drinking water from humidity in the air, hopes to provide large, industrial bulk water systems for oil and gas companies, says Jeff Stockdale, Ambient's chief operating

GSI launches Startup Spokane website

Organization says entrepreneurs are embracing service

October 23, 2014

Judith Spitzer

A new online resource for Spokane entrepreneurs, called StartupSpokane.com, is getting attention from both users and people who want to pay it forward and help entrepreneurs, says Robin Toth, Greater Spokane Incorporated vice president of business develop

Telect offspring Weckey launches app

Smart guestbook startup aims for lobby ubiquity

October 9, 2014

Katie Ross

Telect Inc., the Liberty Lake-based developer and manufacturer of communications networking equipment, is investing in and leasing office space to a new company here named Weckey Inc., which has developed a mobile tablet guestbook application for business

intelliPaper LLC shatters Kickstarter funding goal

'Smart' card product draws 10 times more than sought

September 25, 2014

Judith Spitzer

IntelliPaper LLC, the Edwall, Wash.-based company that makes recyclable, paper-based USB flash drives, has raised more than 10 times its goal of $10,000 through a recently completed Kickstarter crowdsourcing campaign for swivelCard, a 'smartâ€ business

Gravity Jack doubles sales, looks to add more offices

Mobile application developer specializes in customization

September 25, 2014

Katie Ross

Gravity Jack Inc., the Liberty Lake custom mobile application and augmented reality software developer, has doubled its revenues thus far in 2014, and is expecting to do it again in 2015, says co-founder Jennifer Richey. 'I know we doubled this year,

Alliance Machine Systems rolls out new box fabricator

Valley manufacturer says model is easier to operate

September 11, 2014

Katie Ross

Alliance Machine Systems International LLC, a Spokane Valley-based manufacturer of products and services for the paperboard packaging industry, is rolling out the latest model of one of its machines for manufacturing specialty cardboard boxes. The J&L Ma

Life sciences recruitment startup launches here

Business plans to hire more staff next month

August 14, 2014

Katie Ross

Two veterans of the life sciences industry have partnered to form a new biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry talent recruitment business here, called Celere LLC. Former Jubilant HollisterStier CEO Marcelo Morales and Justin Rayment, who owns a sepa

Gas, water divisions buoy Itron

Quarterly revenue is up despite slow electric unit

August 14, 2014

Judith Spitzer

Itron Inc., the Liberty Lake-based maker of utility meter reading technology, with year-over-year revenue growth driven by double-digit gains in both its gas and water lines of business, is poised to take advantage of new global markets, says Philip Mezey

Irv Zakheim: Dishing on an animated career in manufacturing

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July 31, 2014

Linn Parish

Dish up a kids' snack onto a plastic plate featuring the Frozen princesses or that goofy snowman they hang around with, and chances are good you're using a project created by West Plains-based Zak Designs Inc. Thirty-eight years old, the company has

Chucking the punch clock with results-only work environment (ROWE)

Zipline says flexible work schedules improve productivity

July 17, 2014

Mike McLean

Zipline Communications Inc., the Spokane-based website and mobile applications builder that does business as Zipline Interactive, has tossed the 9-to-5 workday and has liberated its employees from their office confines. Ryan Stemkoski, 31, who co-founded