Evansville Company Opens Trio of Data Centers

nGenX Corporation, sister company of Cinergy MetroNet, Inc. and Norlight, Inc., announces the opening of three data centers in the cities of Indianapolis, IN; Lafayette, IN; and Louisville, KY. This expands the company’s data center footprint from two to five data centers in the Midwest.

As part of this expansion effort, nGenX’s new data centers will support collocation customers who require a public data center solution for outsourcing servers or other information technology equipment. nGenX utilizes its two existing SAS 70, Type II certified data centers in Evansville, Indiana and Brookfield, Wisconsin to host its Cloud Computing services and for colocation. All five nGenX data centers are ringed with Ethernet connectivity for high-availability and disaster recovery.
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Notes: Funds Available to Clean Up Waterways

Indiana could share in $75 million in federal funds to help clean up waterways, but local farmers, producer associations and governments need to get their applications filed before a May 3 deadline.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture money will go to projects that cut the amount of nutrients entering waterways in dozens of watersheds. The agency expects to award about $320 million for such projects over the next four years.

Indiana’s five eligible watersheds are the Eel River, the Upper East Fork of the White River, Wildcat Creek, the upper Wabash River, Vermillion River and upper Great Miami River.

Indiana legislators made little progress Monday in reaching a deal to delay an increase in the unemployment tax.

CVS continues to expand in the Evansville area.

Fishers Company to Add Jobs

Video management systems developer Exacq Technologies, Inc., plans to expand its Fishers headquarters, creating up to 49 new jobs by 2013.

Exacq Technologies develops software systems that manage video surveillance for stand alone applications and multi-branch sites including universities, banks, retail stores, corporate facilities, airports and private residences. The technology developer plans to invest $1.1 million to lease additional space at its current 10,000 square-foot Exit Five Parkway facility in Fishers.
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Automotive Supplier to Expand

Aisin Chemical Indiana LLC, (ACIN) a manufacturer of components and materials for the automotive industry, announced today that it will expand its Crothersville operations, creating up to 37 new jobs by 2013.

The company, which manufactures friction material components used in automatic transmissions, along with liquid applied sound dampening material used in vehicles to reduce noise and vibration, will invest more than $9 million by the end of 2011 to construct a new 72,000 square-foot manufacturing facility adjacent to its current operations. Aisin will use the additional space to expand production of its Liquid Applied Sound Dampening product line.
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