Monthly Archives: January 2019

Company Spotlight: Fin Fun

If Disney has taught us anything, it’s that life is much better under the sea. You may think this is a dream far from reach, but Idaho Falls company Fin Fun begs to differ. “We’re a company that believes in making dreams come true, starting with children who’ve always dreamt of looking and feeling like

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Project Spotlight: Community Development Block Grant

Established as part of the Housing and Community Development Act in 1974, the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program, administered by Idaho Commerce, allocates funding directly to the State of Idaho. CDBG can assist cities and counties with the development and construction of public infrastructure and facilities. Funds are awarded based on several factors including

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Company Spotlight: Ventive

Disruptive (adj.): relating to or noting a new product, service, or idea that radically changes an industry or business strategy, especially by creating a new market and disrupting an existing one. To be a member of the highly sought-after Inc. 500, companies must see their industry through a unique, disruptive lens. Luckily for company number

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Company Spotlight: Advanced Ceramic Fibers

Super strength, super speed, super durability and super senses; Superman may be known as the Man of Steel, but what if the steel he’s named after was even stronger? On top of that, what if through the process of making the steel stronger, it became lighter? No, this isn’t foreshadowing to a future DC Comic

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Company Spotlight: PEET Dryer

As a soldier in the U.S. Army many decades ago, Gene Peet was fed up with putting on the same pair of sweat-soaked boots day after day. After being denied a second pair, Gene took to tinkering and developed a convection dryer out of beer cans to keep his boots free of moisture for the

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Company Spotlight: Intermountain 3D, Inc.

Lynn and Brian Hoffmann have been in the business of unlocking imaginations since 2014. “All of our customers are optimistic” said Lynn. “They’re coming in with something they’ve developed, and we make it possible for them to hold in their hands what they had in their mind.” As the owners of Intermountain 3D, Inc. in

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