Getting the boost it needed to emerge from a two-year business lull, longtime Spokane industrial manufacturer Rahco International Inc. has landed a roughly $20 million contract to design and construct two massive conveyor and stacking systems for a

Cheese makers, dairies, and brewers sprinkled around the U.S. are using prototype equipment developed by a young Spokane biotech company to count live bacteria or yeast during their production processes. The market for the product, born in the labs

If there was supposed to be an ebb in momentum at Telect Inc. when the telecommunications equipment maker spun off a division in June that employed nearly 130 people and had annual sales of $9 million, someone forgot to tell CEO Wayne at the office

Technet, a Spokane support group for high-tech executives, plans to launch a forum that would help entrepreneurs here meet qualified investors who are willing to provide venture capital.Tentatively called the Technet Investors Forum, the new off

MEISolutions.com, a 15-year-old Spokane company formerly known as Micro Enhancement International Inc., says it has agreed in principle to acquire a New Hampshire software-development firm for $2.8 million in cash and stock.Company Chairman and

The bar is rising.Executives of publicly traded companies here enjoyed big pay hikes on average during their employers most recent fiscal yearevidence, some say, that Spokane-area companies increasingly must open their coffers wider to top a

The Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute has unveiled a new strategic plan that includes marked changes in focus and strategy.While before the Spokane-based state agency concentrated on helping to develop new technologies, a

Pounded by depressed metals prices and the Asian contagion, Spokane industrial manufacturer Rahco International Inc. has suffered substantial hits to both its revenues and employment level in the past 18 months. Down but not out, the longtime in

When Potlatch Corp. shareholders convene today for the Spokane-based forest-products companys annual meeting, all eyes will be on the future.And theyre hoping sunglasses will be needed.Potlatch, which employs 6,800 people and has annual a