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Pittsburgh company to add

75 jobs at Beltsville facility

Limbach Co. of Pittsburgh, a mechanical construction and service company, plans to create 75 new jobs within the next three years as it relocates from Lanham to Beltsville.

The company previously had 150 employees in its Lanham offices. Those employees, plus 75 new ones, will now work in a 40,000-square-foot facility in Brick Yard Business Park in Beltsville.

As part of the project, the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development offered Limbach a $100,000 conditional loan. Prince George's County has also offered a $20,000 conditional loan through its Incentive Leverage Fund.

Biofuel company officials

to travel to Sierra Leone

Officials at Tseai Energy Unlimited, a College Park incubator company that develops biofuel-generating agricultural processing plants, plan to travel to Mile 18, a town in Sierra Leone, to lay the foundation for its first pilot program.

The company hopes to use Mile 18's abundant palm fruit to create palm oil and then convert the remaining agricultural waste into biogas to generate electricity.

Tseai Energy's founder, Trevor Young, a student in the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute's Hillman Entrepreneurs Program, is from Sierra Leone and has received more than $25,000 in university awards for his company.

UM receives $15.5M grant

for science program

The University of Maryland, College Park, has landed a $15.5 million grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop and implement a national measurement science and engineering fellowship program. The grant brings the university's total received from last year's federal recovery act to more than $52 million, according to university information.

The program will involve about 50 people a year over three years to work at NIST laboratories.

The university already works with NIST through the $10.3 million Joint Quantum Institute.

Oxon Hill businessman wins minority business award

M.A "Mike" Little of B&W Solutions in Oxon Hill received the Men of Influence Award in Business from Visionary Marketing Group at its Minority Business Summit on Feb. 18 in Baltimore.

Beltsville biotech completes testing of saliva kits

BioServe of Beltsville, a human biomaterial and genomic research company, has announced completing validation testing of its Oragene DNA saliva collection kits.

It has also joined DNA Genotek's Partner Program, expanding its testing platform for extraction and genetic analysis.

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