Connection and collaboration isn't limited to introducing great leaders to great innovators. It includes connecting those who provide services or technology that improves our own business or personal missions. This week we take a closer look at companies that solve problems. One in terms of manufacturing solutions and the other in identifying energy efficient solutions for a newly realized, energy consuming enterprise.

Limtronik provides contract manufacturing services and design engineering support for companies that need manufacturing. It's a way to outsource your manufacturing work, here in the United States. We talk with Scott Hitt, Director of Business Development and Joe Quintana, Production Manager for Limtronik, a company that started in 1970 in Limburg, Germany. Denver's Limtronik, USA is the company's only U.S. branch, just in time for what we think will be a manufacturing resurgence, as companies opt for local control and local outsourcing.

Next, we talk with Boulder Lamp Inc. (BLI) about their energy efficient CDL (ceramic discharge lamp) lighting which has the capacity to reduce power consumption in both retail spaces and large outdoor parking areas, to name a few by at least 50%. Our guests are Fazle Quazi, CEO of Boulder Lamp Inc. and Jake Elliott, Director of Sales, who share their knowledge of cost benefits of CDL lighting, which are currently demonstrated by the use of CDL grow lights in Colorado's expanding cannabis industry. Quazi explains his apprehension in providing resources for the marijuana industry, and his realization that his product can save an extraordinary amount of power usage from the energy grid in terms of lighting efficiency and reduction of cooling costs.

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