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Huckleberry lemonade squeezes out of Jackson
 JACKSON - The Old West is alive in Wyoming through cowboys, wide-open spaces and - huckleberry lemonade?
"In the Old West, after a long day on the dusty trail, freshly squeezed lemonade was just the thing to cut your thirst," said Eric Green, founder of Dust Cutter Beverage Co. in Jackson. "On the Warm Springs Ranch in Jackson Hole, our family served this refreshing lemonade to our guests and the 'Dust Cutter' was born."
The company launched its first line of lemonades this year, including a huckleberry lemonade that can claim the West far better than the company's other offerings of regular and iced-tea lemonade. The company chose to package its products in resealable aluminum bottles made by Ball Corp. in Broomfield, Colo., before developing its logo or flavors.
"It works well with our brand, which is a throwback to the Old West," Green said. "We wanted to make the brand as authentic as possible, and serving our lemonades in a state-of-the-art container that exemplifies the look of an old canteen was perfect for us."
A Ball representative said in a release that the bottles can chill quickly and offer similar benefits to an aluminum can in a more "eye-catching" package.
The lemonades are being distributed in Jackson and the company recently scored a deal with Carlson Distributing to Utah and beyond. The company's Facebook page indicated one of its first deals was with the Meeteetse Chocolatier's Tim Kellogg to stock the drink in May. |
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NASA lands at UW business center
LARAMIE - A NASA representative touched down at the University of Wyoming's Technology Business Center (WTBC) today.
A young Northern Colorado oil and gas monitoring company called Logimesh that recently established its research-and-development presence at the WTBC brought in the NASA representative to discuss a technology collaboration. The NASA staffer, Program Manager Dean Wiberg of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will be hosted by Logimesh in the Energy Innovation Center. The CEO of Logimesh was unavailable for immediate comment.
Logimesh plans to launch its first commercial product in coming months which will use patented technology to monitor and analyze natural-gas compression machines' health. The equipment the company has developed provides real-time monitoring and analysis of equipment vibrations and temperatures that can "predict" maintenance needs. The company claims the data could save companies millions of dollars in unplanned maintenance costs, equipment repairs and lost production revenue.
Going along with their proprietary technology, Logimesh has been working with NASA to "adopt" a technology that monitors air quality in the international space station to be able to effectively monitor air quality for hydrocarbons such as benzene and methane and improve the environmentally safe operation of petroleum exploration and production sites.
According to a release from Logimesh Technologies LLC, founder Bill Gillette was drawn to the WTBC by UW's support of energy research and ability to incubate tech-based businesses tied to the energy industry. Furthermore, as a tenant of the WTBC, the company said it has access to capital, leaders in the energy industry and useful faculty and student talent. Logimesh employs "several" UW intern students pulled from business and engineering tracks.
On the Web: Logimesh.com. |
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Wyo. improves manufacturing with "D" grade
According to a new manufacturing and logistics study by Ball State University, Wyoming scored a "D" ranking in manufacturing industry health. But that marks an improvement for the state from last year's "D-" and 2010's "F."
According to the study, Wyoming's manufacturing industry represents 3 percent of the state economy, generating more than $793 million out of nearly $26.9 billion in earnings in 2011.
"To measure manufacturing industry health, we include three variables - the share of total income earned by manufacturing employees in each state, the wage premium paid to manufacturing workers relative to the other states' employees and the share of manufacturing employment per capita," the study states, using data compiled from the U.S. Census Department and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
While the state fared slightly better in manufacturing industry health to put it on par with Florida, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Rhode Island, the state didn't fare as well in other indicative categories, staying even or sliding in all other categories. Wyoming's letter grades were as follows:
Logistics industry health: C (no change)
Human capital: B (no change)
Worker benefit costs: D (no change)
Tax climate: B+ (no change)
Expected liability gap: C (down from C+ in 2012)
Global reach: C- (down from C in 2012)
Sector diversification: D (no change)
Productivity and innovation: D (no change) |
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