MicroPower Global has been welcomed as the first tenant of Texas State University's new off-campus Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Park in San Marcos, Texas.
Texas State University opened the doors to the first building at the new research park and named MicroPower its inaugural tenant. The company takes approximately 3,500 square feet of dedicated and shared space within the 20,000-square-foot STAR One facility, with room to expand, allowing it to move smoothly into early production at a site designed for its initial manufacturing needs.
MicroPower's production staff are based at STAR One, while a development team continues to work at the University's Materials Science faculty a few miles away, refining the company's thermoelectric technology in parallel with the production team fulfilling early orders.
MicroPower first partnered with Texas State University in 2009 to complete the final phase of product development. That relationship accelerated the development and commercialisation of the company's thermoelectric technology, and the move into STAR Park marks its next phase.
"Having spent three years working hard to complete the development work and build prototypes, the company is now entering an exciting phase, with demand for our energy conversion technology across a wide number of industries," said Max Lewinsohn, MicroPower's Chairman. "STAR Park offers us the opportunity to move into an early production environment that perfectly matches our needs as an emerging clean technology company."
Bill Covington, Chief Research Officer for Texas State, described the relationship as an outstanding example of how a university and a company can work together to the benefit of both.
About MicroPower: MicroPower Global develops advanced thermoelectric generators and cooling systems that convert industrial waste heat into clean electricity. With an international patent portfolio and third-party testing and validation across NREL, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, NIST, Bechtel-Bettis, and Texas State, MicroPower's technology operates at 3–5× the efficiency of any commercial alternative.