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Encore Energy begins drilling the first of many horizontal wells

in the Berea Oil Sandstone in Kentucky. 

By Janice Hoppe-Spiers

Encore Energy Inc. began drilling its first non-conventional horizontal well this summer using state-of-the-industry technology in eastern Kentucky’s Berea Oil Sandstone and the company has now plans for eight additional horizontal Berea wells. Founder, President and CEO Steve Stengell says the Encore Adkins Bud #H1 well discovered a productive reservoir in an area where high volumes of gas have created a longer flowback period, post frac.

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Cascade Corporation’s quality and customer-driven solutions allow it to thrive.

By Alan Dorich

Cascade Corporation thrives by providing custom solutions to its clients, President and CEO Andy Anderson says. “Cascade is a company that is built on solving very specific material-handling needs for customers globally,” he declares.

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Rotex’s industrial separation machines allow its energy,

mining and other customers to do more in less space.

By Jim Harris

Rotex’s focus on developing and manufacturing industrial screening and separation machines that meet the needs of its customers has enabled it to grow significantly in the past 20 years.

“Our emphasis has always been on innovating our product line,” says Bob Dieckman, president of the Cincinnati-based company.

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Top Flight Technologies aims to impact many industries

with its powerful hybrid electric drone, the Airborg H8 10K.

By Bianca Herron

MIT alumnus Long Phan (Mechanical Engineering BS, MS, Ph.D.) and a team of engineers and expert advisors helped build the Draper Small Autonomous Aerial Vehicle, the world’s first fully autonomous helicopter, in the mid-1990s. In 2014, not long after battery drones became widely available, Phan was approached by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory with a mission to solve the payload and extended flight time problems for battery-based drones.

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