10 Year s of Assisting New Mexico S m a l l B u s i n e s s e sJoin us in celebrating the 10 Year An-niversary of the New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program. Beginning in 2000, through legislation passed by the New Mexico State Leg-islature, Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory (joining in 2007) have provided tech-nical assistance to 1,736 New Mexico small businesses.

NMSBA helps New Mexico small busi-nesses facing a technical challenge to access the unique expertise and capa-bilities of New Mexico’s national labora-tories. At no cost to the business, small businesses can seek assistance from lab scientists or engineers for projects that require testing, design consultation, and access to special equipment or facilities. Small businesses qualify if they are for-

profi t, US owned and operated, located in and pay gross receipts tax to the state of New Mexico, and meet the defi nition of a small business under US Small Busi-ness Administration guidelines. Busi-nesses located in Bernalillo County are eligible for $10,000 worth of researcher hours per year, while businesses in rural counties are eligible for $20,000.

In 2010, over 320 NM companies re-ceived direct assistance from laboratory staff, through NMSBA partner organi-zations including New Mexico Manu-facturing Extension Partnership, Univer-sity of New Mexico’s Anderson School of Management and Management of Technology Program, New Mexico Insti-tute of Mining and Technology’s Depart-ment of Management, and New Mexico State University’s Arrowhead Center, or as a leveraged project with multiple small businesses that shared in the same technical challenge.

We invite you to learn more about NMSBA through the experiences of the many New Mexico small businesses that have leveraged world-class science and technology to solve their technical chal-lenges. To fi nd out more about NMSBA or to contact us about your small busi-ness, visit www.nmsbaprogram.org.

R e s u lt s

1,736Businesses Assisted

1,549 Jobs Created/Retained

$25.2MTechnical Assistance provided by Labs

We assisted Businesses in alL

Counties in New Mexico33

Number of Businesses Assisted by County

San Juan77

Rio Arriba32

Taos49

Colfax26

Union18

Los Alamos

34McKinley

25Sandoval

90Santa

Fe195

Mora1 Harding

2San Miguel

19

Cibola12

Bernalillo616

Valencia44

Torrance17

Guadalupe3

Quay4

Curry20DeBaca

1Catron

3

Socorro17 Lincoln

37Chaves

61

Roosevelt7

Lea25

Eddy126

Sierra5Grant

6

Hidalgo3

Luna19

Dona Ana112

Otero30

The Armed Response Team (ART) was founded in 2004 by a group of retired Al-buquerque Police Department offi cers to address the inability of police to respond promptly to burglar alarms. The company fi lls a unique need by having armed re-sponse force personnel appear immediate-ly, in-person to locations where intrusion alarms have occurred. ART also realized it needed new ideas in security technology to enhance further growth of their compa-ny. This was especially true in the case of a unique market segment ART had identi-fi ed: remote detection of outdoor storage and construction yard intrusions.

Securing storage yards and construction sites has long been expensive and inef-fective. ART wanted to evaluate various products for effectiveness before mar-keting them to customers. Through the New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) Program, Sandia National Labo-ratories Principal Investigator David Furgal helped ART identify and evaluate video motion detection technology. This tech-nology provides alarms and video clips of

site intrusions to an alarm center for response force dispatch.

Los Alamos National Laboratory Princi-pal Investigator Kirk Ellard later evalu-ated solar and battery power tech-nology that could provide alternative means for powering outdoor security systems. “Many of these outdoor sites are not close to a power source,” ex-plains ART President David Meurer. “LANL used research it was conduct-ing for national defense purposes to support our technical challenges at ART.”

Over the past few years, ART’s reve-nues have grown by 70%, while many security companies have lost market share. “Our partnership with NMSBA has absolutely paid off,” says Meurer. “The expertise of our national labs allowed us to get into the marketplace faster, at a lower cost, and with better technology.” Building on the company’s growth from six to 33 employees, ART plans to open new locations in additional

markets by 2012. The company will rep-licate the footprint it has established in Albuquerque, using in-person response, coupled with effective Laboratory inspired technology to win long- term clients.

A visit to CleanAIR Systems in Santa Fe tells the story of the company’s impressive growth. The facility off of Cerrillos Road is undergoing a major expansion after its ac-quisition by Catepillar, Inc. in 2010. In the next few months, CleanAIR nearly double its existing workforce to a total of 85 em-ployees.

Over the years, this solid foundation has enabled us to grow our staff and millions of dollars in annual revenue. Founded in 1993, CleanAIR developed innovative tech-nology to clean the emissions of large diesel engines used for electricity generation, oil drilling, and marine applications. Control-ling emissions for diesel engines is a $12 billion worldwide business, driven by gov-ernment regulations to reduce emissions.

“We have unique technology and a unique market position,” says Michael Roach, the company’s founder. “Over the years, this solid foundation has enabled us to grow our staff and increase revenues to millions of dollars.”

CleanAIR Systems was one of the fi rst small businesses assisted by the New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program (NMS-BA). The company approached Sandia Na-

tional Laboratories to test and verify the performance of its catalyst system used to clean emissions in large diesel engines. Prin-cipal Investigator Ted Borek conducted ex-periments on diesel engine exhaust samples with CleanAIR catalysts. “It made a huge difference to customers to have Sandia Na-

tional Laboratories evaluate our products’ performance,” says Roach.

CleanAIR was a NMSBA In-novation Award recipient in 2001. Over the past ten years, the company has gone on to achieve incredible business success and receive numerous awards and verifi cations for its emissions control technology. These include the prestigious 2009 Environmental Protec-tion Agency Technology of the Year Award and the 2010 Award of Excellence in Technol-ogy Transfer from the Federal Laboratory Consortium. “It’s an example to all New Mexico small businesses of what we can achieve,” says Roach, who started the company with one employee and a credit card,

and fi nanced its growth through sales rev-enue and small loans. “The State of New Mexico and our national labs do a great job of providing access to scientifi c expertise and equipment at no cost,” says Roach. “I can’t think of a better place for a small busi-ness than New Mexico.”

2010 LANL Principal InvestigatorsDavid AlexanderAaron AndersonJohn BattlesRobert BourqueGeoff BrownMac BrownCamilla Bustamante (NNMC)Dominic CagliostroDavid CarrollDavid CoblentzBev CrawfordCrystal DensmoreStephan EidenbenzMatthew FaganKevin FarinholtShihai FengKumkum GangulyGreg GoddardGeorge GrayDavid GuentherMarkus HehlenJeff HeikoopSul Kassicieh (UNM-MOT)Sandeep KumarChris LeibmanSteve LingerRod LinnCheng LiuPatrick LongmireManuel LovatoRohan LovelandCharles LuceroJoseph MangClaudia MoraHarshini MukundanCleo NaranjoBruce OrlerWilliam PorchJorge RamonPaul ReimusFrank Reinow (NM Tech)Robert RobackArdyth SimmonsJennifer Sinsabaugh (NM MEP)Mark E. SmithMark K. SmithJian SongAndrea (Shelly) SpearingRichard StrelitzJeri SullivanBasil SwansonJohn TanskiBryce TappanG. Loren TooleGregory WagnerSteve Walsh (UNM-MOT)Cindy WelchJoanne WendelbergerCraig White (UNM-MOT)Debra WrobleskiGlen Wurden

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R o y a l F i b e r S p i n n e r yRod Dakan, the owner of America’s largest Alpaca fi ber processor, Royal Fiber Spin-nery in Ruidoso, says the greatest chal-lenge to the Alpaca grower community is the expense and logistics of transportation of fi ber. Most of the 100,000 Alpacas in the U.S. exist in herds of 20, scattered in all 50 states. Moving the annual fi ber clip from farms to processing centers across the U.S. is prohibitively expensive based on available wool or cotton balers. Cur-rent equipment creates bales weighing 700 pounds and measuring 4’ x 5’ x 2’, which is more fi ber than most small farms would produce in a year.

Through NMSBA, Bob Winters, from Sand-ia’s Organic Materials in Advanced Manu-facturing Department, provided design consultation on a baler that compresses Alpaca fi ber to a maximum weight of 50 to 70 pounds and a size of 1.5’ x 1.5’ x 1.5’. As the design developed, a testing device was built to validate the concept, then a 3D model and detailed drawing were created for Royal Fiber to have the baler manufactured.

Dakan has taken the design to a metal fabricator to begin production and plans to market the smaller, more effi cient baler to the Alpaca grower community, as well

as utilizing it in his own processing facility. As a result, he anticipates signifi cant in-creases in revenue and business for Royal Fiber Spinnery.

E l d o r a d o B i o f u e l sWhen Paul Laur fi rst began working with algae biofuels, he never expected to end up in the oil fi elds of southeast New Mexico. With partner Alfonz Viszolay of VM Tech-nology, Laur quickly realized that the large amount of water required for algae produc-tion could potentially limit the scope of his business. After consulting with an investor (and former petroleum company owner), Laur learned that millions of gallons of produced water are wasted annually as an unintentional consequence of oil and gas production. It was an ideal water source if Laur could fi gure out how to use it.

Through NMSBA, the Chemistry Division at LANL provided research and analysis of the chemistry of the produced water and biochemistry of algae based on VM Technology’s Ultra-Violet Ozone Oxidation (UVOX) water treatment system. LANL re-searcher Greg Wagner demonstrated suc-cessful algal growth in treated water under controlled laboratory conditions.

The team found that the produced water in the Jal fi elds had the ideal constituents for algal growth and learned how to cus-tomize the treatment process for different types of produced water. Eldorado Biofu-

els’ fi rst ten-acre test bed in Jal will serve as a pilot for similar facilities that can be built on oil and gas fi elds statewide. It will

also provide the data needed to scale up as the nation’s fi rst 1,000-acre commercial algae facility.

2010 SNL Principal Investigators

Jeff Abrams (NM MEP)David Aldridge

Danny Armijo II (NM MEP)Darrell Armstrong

Miguel AtencioMichel D. Bode

Ted BorekJeffrey Brinker

John BrockmannAlexander Brown

John BrowningSusan Brozik

Charles BryanEdwin Bryce

Ronald Burke (NM MEP)Michele Caldwell

Paul ClemKenneth Conrad

Karen Converse (NM MEP)Philip CooperDarin Desilets

Shawn DirkA. Burl Donaldson

Daniel DunlavyBrian Dwyer

Stephen DwyerBrandon Eames

Nathan EdwardsThomas Gallegos

Jeff GilkeyRichard Givler

Jennifer GranataMary Green

Todd Griffi thDavid Hannum

Courtney HerrickAndrea Holling (NM MEP)

Dawn Hommer (NMSU)Dale Huber

Mark IveyJack JakowatzRichard JepsenHowland Jones

Sul Kassicieh (UNM-MOT)Chris Keintz (NMSU)

Bruce LevinDaniel A. Lucero

Monico LuceroPaul Mariner

Shawn MartinJames McElhanon

Matt Moser (NM MEP)Justin T. Newcomer

Christopher Penner (NMSU)Kent PfeiferPhillip Pohl

Kirk RackowMichael Randolph (NM MEP)

Frank Reinow (NM Tech)Allen Ricks

Jesse RobertsLauren Rohwer

Sam Salimi (NM MEP)Allan Sattler

Duane SchneiderMichael Schuhen

Peter SchwindtClaudia Serrano (NM MEP)

Richard ShagamSubhash Shinde

Shane SickafooseMalcolm Siegel

Constantine StewartAmy Sun

Michael ThomasSteve Walsh (UNM-MOT)

Howard WaltherJason Wheeler

Craig White (UNM-MOT)Denise Williams (NM MEP)

Robert WintersWilliam Yelton

Dennis YouchisonDavid Zamora

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