“We definitely did not want to be a
contractor or an R&D shop,” Hammell
said.
“We were a technology company, but we
really focused on getting a commercial
product out. It took a lot longer than we
probably thought it would, so in the early
days we self-funded our company by doing a
lot of contract work. But we always thought
of it as ameans to an end.
“The philosophy was always to get to that
endpoint.”
The existing workforce now stands in the
neighborhood of 50 employees, and all
products are manufactured out of a 50,000-
square-foot space in Lawrenceville, N.J. –
just five miles from the Princeton campus –
that was converted from an old-school
printing press.
Roughly 50 megawatts of product will be
produced from the New Jersey base this
year, which represents a third consecutive
year in which the production capability has
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