“Companies News - Burlington Free Press” plus 1 more

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 11:21 AM PDT

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• Kane Architecture, based in Hardwick, was the only Vermont firm to win a New England AIA award this year. Architecture firms from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont were among the winners. Patrick Kane, sole proprietor of Kane Architecture, won a merit award from the New England AIA for the Fred and Fay Haas Memorial Interfaith Chapel for Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz. His brother, T. Barnabas Kane, owner of TBKA Landscape Architects in Prescott, designed the landscape.

• O-Wool organic wool fabrics from Vermont Organic Fiber Co. are the Fall/Winter '09 fabrics of choice for leading sustainable fashion designers for adults and children in the U.S., Canada and Europe, including Bodkin, Deborah Lindquist, Bahar Shahpar, Susan Woo and Whitten Grey in the U.S., Fin (Norway) and Elena Garcia (UK) in Europe, and Dagg and Stacey (Toronto) and Nixxi (Vancouver, B.C.) in Canada.

• Foodee's Pizza at the Essex Shoppes and Cinema has been selected for the 2009 Best of Essex Junction Award in the Pizza Restaurants category by the U.S. Commerce Association. The USCA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country.

• Vermont Housing Finance Agency named its top five participating lending institutions for fiscal year 2009: Chittenden Bank, first; New England Federal Credit Union, second; Universal Mortgage Corp., third; Mortgage Financial Services, fourth; and Heritage Family Credit Union, fifth.

• For more than three years, Peabody & Smith Realty has been operating an office in St. Johnsbury in leased space at 357 Western Ave. Starting in November, they will be working from their new location at 683 Railroad Street, in a building owned by the company. Peabody & Smith Realty purchased the building this fall and has been renovating the office space for the past few weeks.

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Oshkosh receives order for 900-plus composites-armored vehicles - High Performance Composites

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 11:00 AM PDT

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News Item from: CompositesWorld
Article Date: 10/19/2009

Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis., USA) announced on Oct. 12 that it has received an additional $408.5 million award from the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command Life Cycle Management Command (TACOM LCMC) for 923 composites-armored MRAP All Terrain Vehicles (M-ATV) to be delivered to the U.S. Armed Forces through March 2010.

This is the fourth award under the M-ATV delivery order first awarded in June 2009, and brings the total number of vehicles Oshkosh will supply to 5,219. The aggregate amount of the four awards is valued at $2.76 billion.

Oshkosh Defense teamed with composites armor manufacturer Plasan North America (Bennington, Vt., USA) to provide an advanced armor solution for the M-ATV. Plasan also developed the armor system used on more than 5,000 legacy MRAPs and thousands of Oshkosh MTVR Armored Cabs already in theater.

"Our customer is preparing to field the first Oshkosh M-ATVs for use by warfighters in the Afghanistan theater of operations," said Robert G. Bohn, Oshkosh chairman and CEO. "As these vehicles begin making their way onto the battlefield to ensure our men and women are well protected and their missions remain on the move in even the harshest environments, we will continue to make the vehicle's high-quantity production our top priority and provide any additional program support as needed."

Oshkosh continues to deliver vehicles ahead of the government's accelerated schedule and met September's delivery requirement on Sept. 22. The company will ramp production up to 1,000 vehicles per month in December and continue at that level through at least March 2010. Existing Oshkosh Defense manufacturing facilities have available production capacity for all current and pending military vehicle programs, including M-ATV and the U.S. Army's Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV), as well as any surges in production.

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