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TechTrends e-Newsletter I January 2004 Page 3 of 5 <br /> the largest manufacturer of heavy-duty transit buses in North America. <br /> The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system (MNSCU) reports that it <br /> enrolled 4,914 dislocated workers in 2003-an increase of 18 percent over the <br /> previous year. Funded by state and federal government, labor unions, and <br /> employers, MNSCU provides nearly 95 percent of the state's training for dislocated <br /> workers. <br /> Itasca County's Itasca Development Corp. (IDC) has agreed to purchase Cohasset's <br /> Technimar building, with plans to turn the site into a business incubator. IDC <br /> secured funding for the $2 million deal from grants and loans from the Blandin <br /> Foundation, the Northland Foundation, and the Iron Range Resources and <br /> Rehabilitation Agency. According to IDC, the 109,000-square-foot facility will be <br /> renovated to accommodate about 10 manufacturing businesses, unless a single <br /> tenant is found. IDC officials hope that the facility will bring 75 to 150 new jobs to <br /> the area when it opens to tenants in July of this year. <br /> Hibbing Taconite Co. has received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of <br /> Energy to upgrade low-grade iron ore by in-pit crushing and cobbing. The project <br /> will be conducted jointly by Hibbing Taconite Co., the Minnesota Department of <br /> Natural Resources, Coleraine Mineral Research Lab, Metso Minerals, and Cleveland <br /> Cliffs. <br /> IKONICS Corp.,a Duluth-based imaging company, has announced that it has filed a <br /> patent application for its IkonMetal imaging technology, which it has been <br /> developing for more than a year. IkonMetal imaging may be used in place of acid <br /> etching, machining, or liquid metal casting to create imaged metal products such as <br /> signage, plaques, and molds. <br /> MTI Tech Forum: New Product Development: Payoff, Process,...Players <br /> Date: 1/29/04 <br /> Time: 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. <br /> Location: Imation Corp., Oakdale <br /> Cost: $149 <br /> Featured Speakers: <br /> • Dr. Rod Greder, New Productivity Group <br /> • Samuel Gould, MTI <br /> • Rich Meiss, Meiss Education Institute <br /> • Dr. Jim Radtke, Dow AgroSciences <br /> • Subodh Kulkarni, Imation Corp. <br /> MTI ISO Registration Series: Root Cause Analysis <br /> Dates: 1/26/04; 1/29/04 <br /> Time: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. <br /> Locations: 1/26-Edina; 1/29-Brainerd <br /> Cost: $200 <br /> Featured Speaker: <br /> • Techlogic Inca <br /> • MTI Special Event: IT/Internet Services <br /> Date: 2/17/04 <br /> http://www.minnesotatechnology.org/publications/techtrends/2004/January/printVersion.asp 3/2/2004 <br />