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GOV. MALLOY: FIRST COMPANY FUNDED BY SMALL BUSINESS EXPRESS PROGRAM TO DOUBLE ITS WORKFORCE
January 18, 2012
by Office of Governor Dannel P. Malloy
Says “Small Businesses are Critical to Reinventing Connecticut”
(HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that the first company to be funded by the state’s new Small Business Express Program (EXP) – South Windsor-based Oxford Performance Materials, LLC – will allow the company to double its workforce by adding 12 positions.
Malloy launches express job-growth program with South Windsor company
January 18, 2012
by Keith M. Phaneuf
in the Connecticut Mirror
South Windsor -- Gov. Dannel P. Malloy used one of the new job creation tools Wednesday that state lawmakers authorized during last fall's special session, tapping a South Windsor company to launch the new Small Business Express Program.
Oxford Performance Materials, which is expected to be the first of dozens of firms to receive assistance within 30 days of appealing to the administration for help, is to use $300,000 in state funds to add 12 jobs and expand its production of skeletal replacement parts using advanced polymers.
CT aids S. Windsor firm's $1.8M expansion
January 18, 2012
in the Hartford Business Journal Online
A South Windsor biomedical firm is getting $300,000 in state small business aid that will allow it to hire 12 workers -- doubling its staff, authorities say.
Oxford Performance Materials LLC is the first company funded in the state's new Small Business Express Program, the governor's office said Wednesday.
OPM Lands Funding for Revolutionary Orthopedic Fabrication Machine
September 14, 2011
by Robin R. Young
in the RRY Publications
Oxford Performance Materials, LLC (OPM) the innovative Connecticut-based company that earlier this year made a significant bet on a revolutionary new class of medical implant fabrication equipment has announced that it received funding for this machine.
The funding was provided by the Connecticut Innovations, Inc.’s (CI) BioScience Facilities Fund. Financing is in the form of special debt instrument. The equipment is part of a multi‐million dollar project to produce medical implants through additive fabrication with the firm’s proprietary OXPEKK® products which have properties comparable to human bone. Equipment to be installed in new state-of-the-art facility in South Windsor, Connecticut.