AGT Receives Award for Outstanding Commercial Achievement from Dawnbreaker, Inc.
Knoxville, Tennessee - (Business Wire) - July 31, 2004 - A local technology company, Atmospheric Glow Technologies, Inc. (AGT) has received a prestigious award for Outstanding Commercial Achievement from Dawnbreaker, Inc., a Rochester, New York company specializing in providing commercialization assistance to advanced technology firms who have successfully completed contracts for the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U. S. Navy and the National Institutes of Health. AGT is a science and engineering company headquartered in Knoxville and is solving health and environmental concerns using atmospheric plasma technology.
According to Kimberly Kelly-Wintenberg, President, "AGT received this award because we have been very successful in commercializing our One Atmosphere Uniform Glow Discharge Plasma (OAUGDP™) technology. We reported funding or sales in excess of $1 million within 18 months of completing the Dawnbreaker Commercialization Assistance Program (CAP) funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Only six other high tech companies in the nation received a similar award. We are very excited to be recognized in this manner."
AGT's award-winning technology, One Atmosphere Uniform Glow Discharge Plasma, is a result of a $5 million investment and ten years of basic research conducted by The University of Tennessee. AGT maintains an exclusive license for the patents related to the technology. In the two years since their participation in the CAP, AGT has secured over $3 million in funding and has advanced its laboratory technology by extending it to an industrial setting where practical atmospheric plasma device prototypes have been successfully constructed.
The Outstanding Commercial Achievement Award was presented by Jack Thatcher of Dawnbreaker to AGT at its headquarters in Knoxville. Dawnbreaker has provided business-planning services to over 1000 SBIR funded companies since 1989. They conduct the CAP program for the U. S. Department of Energy, the Department of the Navy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institutes of Health.
"The Dawnbreaker assistance gave us the confidence to go forward and successfully develop our business on the commercial level," said Thomas W. Reddoch, CEO. "We are hopeful that AGT will have another opportunity to pursue an additional CAP if offered."