Committed to its role as a family-owned and -operated business, K&N Electric Motors Inc. is what company CEO Janet Schmidlkofer calls a happy setup. 'We're approached all the time about selling the company. So far we have no intentions of doing so,”

A West Plains business owner says he believes he's found the answer to the common industrial problem of rubberized belts slipping on pulley systems in heavy-duty machinery. Jon Osborne is the owner and president of Extreme Industrial Coatings Inc. (EIC

Edmund O. Schweitzer III founded Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in 1984, and essentially from the beginning, the company has been growing rapidly. The 31-year-old, Pullman-based enterprise designs, manufactures, and supports products and services f

Minds-i Inc., a five-year-old Liberty Lake company that started out researching and developing static, motorized, robotic, and remote-control toys, has ridden the recent wave of interest in robots and aerial drones to shift heavily into education.

The demand for machinists in the Spokane area remains high, with a number of companies here advertising openings online.

Quest Aircraft Co., the Sandpoint-based maker of the rugged Kodiak airplane, announced earlier this month at an aircraft show in Wisconsin that it has expanded its dealership network, and it also now offers a fully certified executive version of the plane

Liberty Lake-based Itron Inc. says it has expanded on its relationship with Sunrun Inc., one of the nation's largest solar companies. Sunrun will be purchasing more solar meter devices from Itron and relying on its staff to process data generated by th