Arrow’s ACES strengthens IPS’s hand
By GREGORY ZELLER // Holding several ACES, it’s fair to say Intelligent Product Solutions likes the hand it’s been dealt. In the six months since Arrow Electronics named the Hauppauge-based…
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LaunchPad, EisnerAmper pitch in on VC
By GREGORY ZELLER // Six Long Island startups made their way to Midtown Manhattan Monday night to pitch directly to top-shelf investors, a golden opportunity that could serve as a…
Global ‘honor,’ and opportunity, for Spectronics
By GREGORY ZELLER // A 20-year veteran of the automotive aftermarket will represent Spectronics Corp. on the influential Overseas Automotive Council. Dan Tristan, who manages Latin American and Asian-Pacific sales…
New director spearheads Northwell liver effort
Northwell Health’s drive for a new liver-transplant program kicked into gear Monday with the appointment of a new transplantation director. Lewis Teperman has been named the new vice chair of…
Unwrapping the farm-to-box movement
BY CARL CORRY // Satur Farms is keeping up with the Joneses with a vertical push into mail-order markets. When Paulette Satur and her husband, Eberhard Müller, first bought an…
Giving high school inventors the business
By GREGORY ZELLER // A sensor-filled table to assist the autistic, an innovative method to save subway stations from storm-surge flooding … no doubt about it, these students were thinking…
U.S. Senate could boost LI manufacturers
By CARL CORRY // Small and medium-sized manufacturers on Long Island and elsewhere will have a better chance to thrive if bipartisan legislation to improve a nationwide manufacturer-support program survives its…
Suffolk IDA makes Comtech pitch
Rack that up as a fairly profitable day for Comtech Telecommunications Corp. First, the Melville-based high-tech manufacturer announced Thursday morning that it has received a $1.3 million funded order from…
SCORE, Canon USA set small-biz forum
By GREGORY ZELLER // Dozens of Long Island business owners are about to get a crash course in successful small-business management – courtesy of one of the Island’s largest corporations….
With servo press, new game for Check-Mate
By GREGORY ZELLER // West Babylon manufacturer Check-Mate Industries is stepping up its game – good news for the top names in the firearms and medical-device industries. Launched four decades…
LI schools tech-up in ‘Smart’ $43M package
Funding for programs in five Long Island school districts is included in a $43 million “Smart Schools” investment package announced this week by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The package, which funds…
Day and nitro: The end of LI cesspools?
By GREGORY ZELLER // A simple sand-and-wood filtering system could replace cesspools on Long Island and across the state. A white paper issued this week by Stony Brook University’s Center…
A small ship, and the sun to steer her by
By GREGORY ZELLER // Soaring high above the South Shore and numerous New York City landmarks, the V0 Substrata this weekend made its most ambitious, most adventurous series of flights…
Gerrit Wolf is minding innovation’s business
The Innovation Center stands out from Stony Brook University’s rich selection of business incubators and entrepreneurship programs for many reasons, but the first is this: Unlike the university’s other business-development…
A front-row seat to the Hispanic market
By GREGORY ZELLER // Some people want to build walls. Others want to help Hispanics score good seats for the futbol match. Fantástico, a Spanish-speaking online ticket retailer, falls squarely…