SCRA Welcomes New Tenant to Upstate Innovation Center
January 26, 2012
S-F LLC Signs Long-Term Lease with SCRA
ANDERSON, SC – January 24, 2012 – SCRA, a global leader in appliedresearch and commercialization, today announced a new tenant company intheir Upstate innovation center. The Duke Energy Innovation Center, apartnership between Clemson University and SCRA, is located in Anderson,SC and opened in March of 2011.
The award-winning facility is home to the SCRA-managed CompositesConsortium, a group comprised of 34 companies including: Boeing,Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Goodrich and SCRA Technology Ventures’ SCLaunch company MIT-RCF. Also housed in the facility is the US Navy’sCenter of Excellence for Composites Manufacturing Technology, managedand run by SCRA. The remainder of the space is leased and includesstate-of-the art conference rooms, a common break room and secure roomsfor sensitive work.
S-F LLC, a Charleston-based research and development company, recentlysigned a long term lease with SCRA to rent space in the Anderson-areainnovation center and plans to hire 10 engineers in the next 5 years todevelop and patent new products in the medical, chemical, energy andtextile industries. S-F will focus on commercializing new productspatented or designed within the SCRA research space, which will then bemanufactured in the Upstate of South Carolina.
A spokesman for S-F said they expect the new space to be ready beforeMay and are pleased to be SCRA’s first tenant in the research building.
“We are pleased to welcome S-F LLC to the Duke Energy Center,” said SCRACEO Bill Mahoney. “Our Innovation Centers continue to be places wherecompanies grow and thrive and their innovations are developed andcommercialized. We look forward to S-F LLC’s continued success andrecognize them on their significant contributions to South Carolina’sKnowledge Economy.”
About SCRA
http://www.scra.org/
SCRA is an applied research company with over 28 years of experiencedelivering technology solutions with high returns on investment tofederal and corporate clients. To fulfill our mission, SCRA has threesectors: Our Technology Ventures sector helps early-stage companies tocommercialize innovations and create jobs, our Applied R&D sectormanages over 100 national and international programs worth over $1.5billion in contract value and our R&D Facilities sector builds andmanages research facilities that include wet labs, secure rooms forsensitive work and advanced high-tech manufacturing shops.
