The Spokane Intercollegiate Research & Technology Institute (SIRTI) could become one of the nations chief repositories of information about processing fuels for use in fuel cells. SIRTI is sharing with InnovaTek Inc. and Pacific Northwest of

Olympic Foods Inc., a Spokane company that makes, bottles, and packages juices and manufactures plastic and paper beverage containers, is acquiring equipment that will enable it to fill 4-, 6-, and 10-ounce paper cartons with beverages.Olympic

The owner of Spokane House of Hose Inc., of Spokane Valley, is building an 80,000-square-foot structure on that companys current parking lot and plans to move House of Hoses operations to the building next October. The project, which the $3

Seattle-based Odom Corp., which operates two beer-and-wine wholesale operations here, has agreed to buy a division of Portland-based Columbia Distributing Co. that serves the same Eastern Washington and North Idaho markets as Odom. Odom already

Empire Health Services, of Spokane, has decided to move forward with $12.5 million in construction projects during the next two years.Garman Lutz, interim president and CEO of the nonprofit operator of Deaconess Medical Center and Valley & says

Many entrepreneurs develop plans for startup businesses through a painstaking process that blends their accumulated knowledge of an industry with research focused on profit potential.For Robert Calvert, founder and publisher of Spokane-based an

Fairchild Air Force Base will be bustling with construction activity in coming months, even if it doesnt get new air tankers.The U.S. Air Force awarded about $31 million in work at the West Plains base recently, and most of the projects are a

Having held its own during a tough national economy the past few years, Spokane-based EZ Loader Boat Trailers Inc. has been making and shipping more trailers this year as activity in the boating industry has picked up.Rick Norman, sales and for

The seemingly endless rows of shiny aluminum coil are much shorter now. Huge expanses of factory floor are quiet and unlit. The trucks loaded with molten metal that once rumbled from Mead through Hillyard and the Spokane Valley to Trentwood are has

Steve Wuitschick, the longtime CEO of Rockwood Retirement Communities here, has accepted a job with American Baptist Homes of the West, in Pleasanton, Calif. Alan Curryer, Rockwoods vice president of finance, has been named interim CEO of the