22 • Cascade Business News • February 4, 2015 Companies to Watch in 2015: Innovative & Growing 10 Barrel Brewing Product/Service: pond liners and tarps. Location/website: Pub: 1135 Northwest Galveston Ave., Amplion Research Hot News: longer track record with heavy weight reinforced www.10barrel.com, 541-678-5228. Location/website: 1011 Southwest Emkay Drive, Bend, OR polyethylene than any other liner company in the world; fabricat- Brewing location: 62970 NE 18th Street. Bend, OR 97701. 97702, 458-206-4788, www.amplion.com, [email protected] ed and installed more square footage than any other liner com- Owner: Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO: John Audette pany using heavy weight RPE. Founders: Jeremy Cox, Garrett Wales, Brad Wales and Chris Cox. No. Employees: 5 Outlook for Growth: as climate change continues, problems No. Employees: 78 Year Established: 2013 will continue to mount like drout and heavier rains. Ponds con- Year Established: 2006 Product/Service: provides business intelligence solutions that structed with an impermeable liner prevent the loss of precious Product/Service: craft beer. give pharmaceutical and diagnostics companies strategic control rainwater which would otherwise seep into the ground, allowing Hot News: sold the company to Anheuser-Busch InBev. of the complete clinical biomarkers landscape. the farmer to draw from their own supply during the most critical Outlook for Growth: with Anheuser-Busch InBev resources, 10 Hot News: won a $150,000 Investment Award from Seven parts of the growing season. Barrel plans to expand distribution and will invest $10 million lo- Peaks Ventures, the Bend Venture Conference’s major prize of cally in new production facility. $250,000 and $48,000 from the Cascade Angels Fund. Butler Aircraft Services Location/website: 705 SE Salmon Ave., Redmond, OR 97756, Advanced Aviation Bellatrix 541-923-1355, www.butlerairservices.com Location/website: 63006 Powell Butte Hwy., Bend OR 97701, Location/website: 1015 SW Emkay Dr., Bend, OR 97702, 541- Owner: Travis Mann 541-330-5817, www.advancedaviationinc.com 382-2208, www.bellatrix.com, www.getbrightswitch.com No. Employees: 18 Owner: Aaron Brook CEO: Steve Morris Year Established: 1946 No. Employees: 2 No. Employees: 19 Product/Service: discovery ights over Central Oregon and Year Established: 1994 Year Established: 1986 ight lessons. Product/Service: experimental aircraft builders assist shop. Product/Service: combine electronic, mechanical and com- Hot News: Business Oregon helped the City of Madras secure Hot News: helping to build the safest and highest quality air- puter technologies to create unique, advanced control systems. an Immediate Opportunity Fund grant of $347,358 to make road craft possible. These systems provide data acquisition, perform complex electro- improvements to the new City-owned aircraft hangar at the City Outlook for Growth: aircraft have won several awards at the mechanical functions and transmit information using optical or airport. In addition, Butler Aviation received a Special Public Oshkosh, Sun-n-Fun and Arlington air shows. high frequency radio channels. Works Fund (SPWF) loan of $478,000 and a SPWF grant of $50,000 Hot News: launched a second successful crowd fund campaign to help construct the new hangar. Advanced Machining Services LLC in 2014 for bRight Switch which included only the Android based Outlook for Growth: estimates an additional $20 million in Location/website: 20690 Carmen Loop # 100 Bend, OR 97702, full color touch-screen switch. Engineering on bRight Switch com- economic impact in the region over the next decade and antici- 541-617-9500, http: //amsbend.com pleted and moving to production. pates the creation of 15 full-time jobs. Owners: Craig Aschatz & Mark Wolfkeil Outlook for Growth: The bRight Switch system includes smart No. Employees: 12 switches that can be customized to perform multiple functions Cascade Cycleboats Year Established: 2002 as well as multi-port outlets that combine high voltage and low Location/website: 354 Logsden Street, Suite 140, Bend Product/Service: full-service machining shop excelling in CNC voltage, eliminating the need for most wall chargers. OR 97702, 541-848-8442, www.cycleboats.com, kyle@cycle- machining and design; specializes in precision-machined compo- boats.com nents from the aerospace industry to custom projects. Bendistillery CEO: Kyle Allen Hot News: better than average year in 2014 with customers re- Location/website: 19330 Pinehurst Rd., Bend, 541-318-0200, No. Employees: 2 porting good potential for growth. www.bendistillery.com Year Established: 2011 Outlook for Growth: plan to continue improving sales and are CEO: Alan Dietrich Product/Service: human powered tour boats / pedal-pro- working more with the aircraft industry. No. Employees: 25 pelled paddlewheel party boats with a bar. Year Established: 1996 Hot News: delivered Cycleboats to Seattle, Portland and Texas Aerospace Instrumentation Research Product/Service: craft vodka, gin and whiskey Outlook for Growth: three more boats going out to San Diego, Location/website: Mountain High E&S Co., 2244 SE Airport Hot News: entered a partnership with a local brewery to Minnesota and a few other cities are in the works. Way Ste. 100, Redmond, 541-548-7500, www.mhoxygen.com produce whiskey, released rst annual estate-produced line of CEO: Robert Jamieson spirits that are created entirely from ingredients grown on the CCI Tec No. Employees: 15 distillery property. Location/website: PO Box 1876, Bend OR 97709, 541-241- Year Established: 1985 Outlook for Growth: continues to increase production 1945, www.CCITec.com Product/Service: research, design and manufacturer of pat- each year. President/Founder: Devon Cochenour ented state-of-the-art digital aviation oxygen equipment. The No. Employees: 16 company is known particularly in the general aviation, glider and Bend Research Year Established: 2004 home built industry for the MH EDS electronic ‘Pulse-Demand’ Location/website: 64550 Research Rd. Bend, OR 97701, 541- Product/Service: Microsoft Certi ed Partner providing inno- adaptive oxygen delivery devices. 382-4100, www.bendresearch.com vation through integration for healthcare organizations. Hot News: moved into a larger location in the Lancair Building CEO: Rod Ray Hot News: intelligence specialists recently achieved a Silver at the Redmond Airport. No. Employees: 250 Application Integration and Business Intelligence Competency Outlook for Growth: systems have an outstanding industry Year Established: 1975 in the Microsoft Partner Network, demonstrating its ability to reputation for the research and design improvements to aviation Product/Service: drug delivery technologies and formulation meet Microsoft customers’ evolving needs in the dynamic busi- oxygen use and the patented Pulse-Demand oxygen system used development ness environment. by both military and general aviation pilots as well as other oxy- Hot News: acquisition by Capsugel has allowed for glob- Outlook for Growth: GREAT. Leveraging relationship with Mi- gen users worldwide. al growth. crosoft have become the go to partner for business intelligence Outlook for Growth: Currently expanding manufacturing and integration in their partner network for healthcare and nan- Advanced Energy Industries facility and workforce. cial institutions. Location/website: 20720 Brinson Blvd., Bend, OR 97701, 541- 312-3832, www.advanced-energy.com Bird Dog Bioventures / The Athletic Horse Cascade Minerals Exec. VP & CFO; Danny Herron Location/website: At Sisters Equine, 67550 Harrington Location/website: 1747 NW Mill St., Madras, 541-475-7231, No. Employees: 48 Loop Rd., Bend, OR 97701, Dr. 405-409-8690, www.theathlet- www.cascademineralsnw.com Year Established: 2003 ichorse.com President: Mike Weber Product/Service: PV inverters and energy management solu- CEO: Dr. Patrick Young, DVM No. Employees: 20 tions for solar. Employees: 2 Year Established: Central Oregon Basalt Products: 2011, Cen- Hot News: company has increased their operating income ex- Year established: 2001 tral Oregon Seeds Inc.: approx.1979 cluding restructuring by nearly 140 percent. Product/Services: providing solutions for underserved areas Product/Service: Cascade Minerals Remineralizing Soil Boost- Outlook for Growth: consolidated inverter-making operations of animal health. Disruptive Innovation out of necessity. Equine er releases essential minerals and trace elements that plants and with Fort Collins, Colorado facility. Investing in research and de- sports and regenerative medicine. humans need to ourish. velopment in Bend o ce. Hot News: recently developed and licensed a vaccination Hot News: retail and wholesale agricultural companies, nurser- for prevention of Pigeon Fever in horses, that is currently going ies, landscapers and home gardners use Cascade Mineral Prod- Agere Pharmaceuticals, Incorporated through clinical trials for USDA licensing. ucts to help replace the missing trace minerals in our soil that Location/Website: 62925 NE 18th St., Bend, OR 97701, 541- have become depleted. 318-7115, www.agerepharma.com Bird Gard Outlook for Growth: 2015 is the international Year of the Soils. CEO/President: Marshall Crew, Ph.D. Location/website: PO Box 1690/270 E. Sun Ranch Drive, Sis- No. Employees: 7 ters, OR, 541-549-0205, www.birdgard.com Central Oregon Truck Company (part of Daseke Inc.) Year Established: 2008 Owner/President: Todd Weitzman Location/website: 394 NE Hemlock Ave., Redmond, OR 97756, Product/Service: focused on the discovery and development