GrowFL Weekly Update for May 9, 2014

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Florida Companies to Watch Winners Spotlight

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Richard Campbell, President

Founded in 2003
Primary Business: Manufacturing

Applied Fiber’s enabling technologies advance the boundaries for high performance fibers in cable, rope, and cord applications. With industry leading experience, expertise, and technology, Applied Fiber is the most trusted name in terminated systems.
As a manufacturer, Applied Fiber sets entirely new standards for the production of synthetic cable assemblies, with focus on providing our customers with reliable, high performance alternatives to steel.
With experience across all key rope and cable markets, we provide our customers with engineered system solutions that balance specific performance and cost requirements while introducing advanced functions to help optimize the overall system design. excerpt take from applied-fiber.com

Roberto Abascal, President

Founded in 1998

Primary Business: Manufacturing

Full Time Equivalent Employees: 60 in 2012; 89 projected in 2013.

www.avtsim.com

Custom Agronomics is a manufacturer of industry-leading technologies for agriculture, sports turf, and home lawn care. Our products and technologies provide liquid plant nutrition and health care for crop and turf managers while reducing the need for chemical pesticides. Our products include value-added fertilizers, biostimulants, wetting agents, and specialty chemistry designed to increase crop yields and improve turfgrass quality with as minimal environmental impact as possible. We provide basic and value-priced products which allow managers to meet budget requirements without sacrificing production as well as offering patent-pending, industry leading technologies designed for the most demanding agronomic situations. We provide both off-the-shelf solutions as well as capabilities to custom design high performance products to meet particular customer needs or agronomic situations. Our products are distributed throughout the US as well as in six foreign countries. Because of our extensive capabilities in manufacturing and product packaging, we also serve as a toll manufacturing and toll packaging facility for other entities.