In January, Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA Board of Directors approved nearly $1 million in nine Pennsylvania companies. Companies receiving funding are:

Energy Wall
Centre County
Approved Investment: $75,000
For the further development of high-efficiency air-to-air energy recovery exchangers that have no moving parts.

Expansyn Technologies
Centre County
Approved Investment: $90,000
To continue research related to developing biofuel applications for a variety of novel plant proteins.

Indigo BioSciences
Centre County
Approved Investment: $200,000
To help provide toxicologists, drug developers and researchers with frozen single-use, whole cell nuclear receptor assay products.

SilcoTek Corporation
Centre County
Approved Investment: $125,000
To further develop a market for the company's coating technologies, which improve the properties of stainless steel and decrease the likelihood of corrosion.

Advanced Wall Forms Corporation
Clearfield County
Approved Investment: $100,000
To help manufacture, market and sell the Snap Block Wall Form System. Snap Blocks are stay-in-place insulated concrete wall forms that reduce construction costs.

INTEGRITY Ag Systems
Franklin County
Approved Investment: $125,000
To continue providing a wide array of customizable clean-tech products, equipment and technologies for manure and herd management.

Air Dynamics
York County
Approved Investment: $75,000
To further design and develop state-of-the art Air Pollution Control Devices such as the Kitchen Sentry for industrial and commercial applications.

Dynasty Software
Crawford County
Approved Investment: $57,500
To create a web-based application that provides hospitals with the ability to easily organize, modify and verify all surgical equipment and tray inventories.

Pioneer Energy Products
Venango County
Approved Investment: $75,000
To help develop a fully integrated, more efficient renewable energy system for radio communication equipment located in extreme conditions and remote sites.