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Two
companies receive Governor’s New Product Award
Two
North Carolina companies were honored recently as the
Professional Engineers of North Carolina announced the winners
of the 2001 Governor's New Product Award during their annual
summer meeting. In order for a company to be considered for
the award, judges weigh the product's overall economic
contribution to North Carolina, including the number of jobs
created to produce the product; the ingenuity in the use of
engineering principles, technology and materials; the improved
function of the design, ease and savings in use of the new
product; safety to the user; and the product's appearance,
packaging, and marketing. The awards are presented in two size
categories, Small Business and Mega Business, as follows:
The award for the Small Business Category was awarded to Industrial
Recovery Systems International Inc. of Charlotte for their
Matrix Constituent Separator (MCS). The MCS is a patented
system that uses infrared heat and vacuum to remove hazardous
substances from contaminated soil. Thaddeus J. Kuzniar, IRSI
president and co-founder, accepted the award.
Corning Cable Systems of Hickory was presented with the
award in the Mega Business Category for their UniCam
QuickPress MT-RJ Connector, a two-position connector for
terminating fiber optic cable. The connector is used in fiber
optic cabling systems in the backbone of private networks,
campus, and building communications systems. Kathy Watson,
Market Manager for Private Networks, accepted the award on
behalf of Corning Cable Systems.
 Joseph
Lynch will assume the post of colonel of the N.C. Marine
Patrol, the law enforcement branch of the N.C. Division of
Marine Fisheries. The Pennsylvania native has spent most of
his life and career in New York, working for that state's
Department of Conservation, where he rose to the rank of
assistant director of law enforcement. Lynch assumes his
duties July 30. He will take the place of Col. Pete Rivenbark,
who retired last October. Lynch will supervise 56 officers who
oversee 4,000 miles of coastline and 2.4 million acres of
ocean in North Carolina coastal waters.
Timothy D. Kent, executive vice president of the N.C.
Association of Realtors, has been elected to the 37-member
board of directors of the American Society of Association
Executives (ASAE), the premier organization for the promotion
and advancement of association management in the world. Kent
joined the Realtors in October 2000 after 10-plus years in a
similar capacity at the American Institute of Architects,
North Carolina Chapter. A graduate of the University of
Southern California, Kent spent 13 years as a television news
anchor and reporter where he covered four national political
conventions and was named “North Carolina Television
Journalist of the Year” in 1986. Kent also served as
executive assistant to the speaker of the state House of
Representatives before heading up the AIA North Carolina
Chapter’s lobbying efforts. Kent currently serves on the
Executive Committee of NC FREE, and is a past member of
ASAE’s CAE Commission and a past president of Association
Executives of North Carolina.
Beth Hill, who has served as the director of workforce
development for the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce for the
past year, has been promoted vice president, workforce
development, according to Chamber President Tom White. Prior
to her work with the chamber, Hill was the director of the
local ESC One Stop Job Link Career Center, after which she
supervised the dislocated workers program for the State ESC.
She is graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill.
Mike
Burnett was promoted to vice president at Crescent
Resources, according to Art Raymond, senior vice president.
Burnett joined Crescent in 1993 as director of sales and
marketing for Ballantyne Country Club. In 2000, Burnett took
on the additional responsibility of sales and marketing for
Highgrove, Crescent’s newest south Charlotte community. He
has dual responsibilities for marketing both Ballantyne
Country Club and Highgrove.
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