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10/31/06
Stephen Laslo
(814) 467-9060 (x419)
laslo@kuchera.com
Kuchera Defense Systems Received a
Pennsylvania Grant to Establish
A Manufacturing Center of Excellence for Advanced Energy Systems
Windber, PA – Kuchera Defense Systems (KDS) a high
tech manufacturing and engineering services company, announced
that the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority (PEDA)
has awarded KDS a grant to develop the “Center of Excellence
for Advanced Energy Systems (CEAES)” within the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania. Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen
A. McGinty presented the grant check to KDS during an October
10th tour of their facility.
KDS proposed a multi-phased effort to establish a “Center
of Excellence” that will focus on manufacturing advanced
power and energy systems. The PEDA grant will assist KDS with
Phase I facility upgrades and the procurement and installation
of manufacturing equipment for portable fuel cell systems.
Future activities will provide the Center with capabilities
to engineer and manufacture additional fuel cell systems and
other state-of-the-art advanced/alternative energy systems
such as batteries, stirling engines, solar and wind. The Center
is anticipated to showcase world-class designs and manufacturing
techniques and procedures and provide services to design and
manufacture total power and energy systems for military and
the commercial industry.
“The Center is being established to assist advanced
energy system developers with transitioning their products
from R&D to pilot production to high volume manufacturing,”
said the KDS Manager of the CEAES. “We are
very excited about working with the leading power and energy
system developers and to utilize our engineering and manufacturing
knowledge and experience to further the development of their
products.
Please contact Stephen Laslo, KDS CEAES Manager, at laslo@kuchera.com
for additional information.
About Kuchera Defense Systems (www.kuchera.com)
Kuchera Defense Systems is a high tech manufacturing and
engineering services company located in Windber, Somerset
County, Pennsylvania. KDS has extensive expertise in advanced
systems design, design for manufacture (DFM), design for assembly
(DFA), design-to-cost (DTC), PCB layout, and high volume assembly
of circuit boards, electronic systems, robotic unmanned vehicles
and other highly complex and reliable military and industry
products and components.
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