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Michele D. Perkins, Ed.D., President of New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire, announces plans to introduce an innovative new partnership with the state’s community college system.

BOSTON, MA, December 17, 2009 – The leading companies in the Personal Protective Equipment industry announced today the launch of the Warrior Protection & Readiness Coalition (WPRC), an industry-led effort to ensure that US fighting forces are properly equipped and funded to execute their missions.

LOS ANGELES—Oct. 20, 2009—-Craton Equity Partners, a leading Southern California clean technology fund, has made an $8 million investment in Rypos, Inc, the clean air technology leader in the design and manufacturing of active exhaust control systems for the reduction of harmful emissions from diesel engines of products for diesel exhaust filtration.

BIG RAPIDS –Up to six new production lines at the Bates Footwear Division, which serves as a production hub for military boots, will create more than 280 more Jobs, Wolverine World Wide Inc.’s CEO Blake Krueger said today.

How could you call the combination of manufacturers of FR combat uniforms and the producers of specialty fabrics anything else? Yesterday, Massif Mountain Gear Company and Gehring Textiles announced that they have entered into an exclusive agreement to jointly develop and supply military forces around the world with a new generation of flameresistant fabrics and apparel.

All of Rypos Inc.’s work happens in town, but most of the results are put to work in California. Rypos produces filters to capture the emissions from industrial diesel engines, and, as the company has matured and California regulations became tougher, its sales have developed there.

The U.S. Army has selected five garments from Massif Mountain Gear Company’s flame-resistant product line for inclusion in the ire Resistant -Environmental Ensemble (FREE).

Ashland, OR – The U.S. Army has selected five garments from Massif Mountain Gear Company’s flame-resistant product line for inclusion in the Fire Resistant Environmental Ensemble (FREE).

To get a sense of how military and other federal spending might change under the Obama Administration, OIA WebNews contacted federal lobbyist David Costello, who launched Polartec’s government business in the late 1990s.

As Massachusetts shed 92,800 jobs between October and April, a Holliston emissions filter manufacturer doubled its work force in the same period, and it expects to double sales by the end of the year.