ARCHIVED  December 1, 1996

Region’s universities lure high-tech calibration firm

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FORT COLLINS – A former employee of the National Institute for Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md., has turned to the private sector and located his company in Fort Collins.Jerry Messman ran a calibration standards program at NIST for years before launching his own firm, Spectro Standards Analytical, to provide the same service with a fraction of the red tape. After nurturing the firm for three years from his home in Maryland, Messman recently moved everything to approximately 1,000 square feet in the Drake Professional Park in Fort Collins.
It’s a lot closer to his family in Nebraska, and he’s…

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Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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