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Alex Fees: I’m Alex Fees on Small Business Television. We are coming to you from Cleveland at the 2008 COSE Small Business and that’s COSE, the Council of Smaller Enterprises and joining me here now is Thomas Shiveley. Mr. Shiveley, good to meet you sir. Thomas Shiveley: Hello. Alex Fees: I appreciate you being here. Thomas is the president and founder of Innovative Industries. Thomas, what is Innovative Industries? Thomas Shiveley: Innovative Industries is a small company primarily in the area of electric infrared heating with very hi-tech where have—let’s say aerospace heating which we would like be heating the skin of the shuttle. Alex Fees: Wow. Thomas Shiveley: To stimulate reentry temperatures on the shuttle, the work was actually performed on the X30. But today, it was carried over to the shuttle. We created 3000 degrees in three seconds on that spacecraft. 5.7 megawatts of energy that was through aims NASA. And the 5.7 megawatts of energy is all the energy being used with that maybe of 10 to 15 mile of radius right here. Alex Fees: Okay, help me here, infrared? Thomas Shiveley: Infrared, I-N-F-R-A-R-E-D, infrared energy. Alex Fees: Infrared Energy Heating? Thomas Shiveley: Yes. Alex Fees: Okay, so aside of NASA, who need you? Thomas Shiveley: Okay, in industry we’re very happy in the area of curing of coatings, curing of bonding, curing of all kind of materials. Alex Fees: I see. Thomas Shiveley: Process and curing materials but coating is the prime area. Now, in the coating industry, typically people use big hot air conventional ovens so people become accustomed turning control raising the temperature of the air. But to get a cure of a typically take 20 minutes of exposure and in our case, we typically cure 50 to 60 times even 80 times faster than the conventional methods. Alex Fees: Why? Thomas Shiveley: So, we can cure in a three foot long oven what a 100 foot or longer big conventional oven can cure. So, we’re very, very dynamic and not only the speed of curing but that we would actually be 25% of the energy. So, we’re all throughout—in our processing. Alex Fees: Well Thomas, it sounds like a major corporation, are you a small business? Thomas Shiveley: We’re small business and small company but our technologies are very vast. Alex Fees: It sounds like that. Thomas Shiveley: And we just need both you know. We need funds for growth. We have the potential, we have the potential customers not only are we curing products in all areas of industry, you know, the automotive, the industrial, very wide. Coating is a big industry and that’s involving wet coats and dry coats, wet coat paint and powder coat. Alex Fees: Right. Thomas Shiveley: So in wet coat, we actually can cure coating. Wet coat on a coating on a pipe 34 inches in diameter with maybe approaching a quarter inch stick, we can cure that in one second time. Alex Fees: Right. Thomas Shiveley: So, we’re extremely dynamic and we also are like involve in the clear coat curing industry. You see these big coils on the back of the big trucks you know. Alex Fees: Right. Thomas Shiveley: We can cure those coils at a rate of say 300 feet per minute and so our areas then beyond that we get into all kind of process heating, there is many, many areas of process heating so we specialized in those areas. We’re extremely capable not only in the infrared heating but also the controls. Excuse me. Alex Fees: Thomas, tell me about innovative industries involvement here at COSE at the 2008 business conference. Thomas Shiveley: I’ve been a member here perhaps 25-30 years. Alex Fees: Really? Thomas Shiveley: Yes. Alex Fees: Wow. Thomas Shiveley: So, we attend I would I guess maybe a 15-20 events a year. Alex Fees: 15-20 a year? Thomas Shiveley: Yes. Alex Fees: Boy! Thomas Shiveley: That’s because they have a lot of subgroups. Alex Fees: Sure. Thomas Shiveley: And we participate in those. Alex Fees: Yeah. Thomas Shiveley: We like everything that they offer. We would like to see them fruitfully be a little more dedicated to the industry rather than the support areas but we still support them very heavily. Alex Fees: What about your company? What about Innovative Industries? How long is it been around? Thomas Shiveley: We’re founded in 1977. Alex Fees: So, it’s been around that long as well almost. Thomas Shiveley: Very long time, you know there is many times in industry that first of all okay, we’re extremely heavy in the area of tubular heaters that we’re curing the—let’s call it host industry. Alex Fees: Okay. Thomas Shiveley: Cable, curing the cable you know the plastic around the cable but very, very heavy in curing profiles. So, this is like the insulating material as you would find around your automobile window, the windshields and throughout the entire vehicle. Extrusions in the—let’s say the construction industry extrusion for plastic extrusion for one dose. Alex Fees: Okay. Thomas Shiveley: For doors so we’re involved in many, many areas. Now, one area I don’t want to miss. Alex Fees: Okay. Thomas Shiveley: We have developed a system that was utilized for a program at Vancouver University Hospital in Canada. Alex Fees: Vancouver? Thomas Shiveley: Vancouver University Hospital. And there, we developed a system that would take a patient like a person under surgery, major surgery, he goes into hypothermia a lot of people don’t know that. He will lie there and shiver for maybe 45 minutes. And then he needs to be reheated so we have this body re-heater that we—on 50 patients had excellent results. We take the person out of shiver and about two minutes instead of 45. Alex Fees: Wow. Thomas Shiveley: So, we’re improving there stress and it can be life saving like when there is maybe some breaks through the eyes. Alex Fees: Yeah. Thomas Shiveley: Or maybe have a— Alex Fees: Combating hypothermia. Thomas Shiveley: Yes, hypothermia. So, our intent not only in the hospital areas of involvement, we would like to be involved in like an emergency helicopter, have the system—flight right to site. You know the guys down in the water or you’re flying there now. Alex Fees: Right. Thomas Shiveley: So, when they pull him out, that vehicles they’re bringing right in to this system and it can be a life saving system. Alex Fees: Well Thomas, what about this—unique situation here. Aside of the changes in your industry talk to me about the changes in COSE that you’ve seen over what, 25-30 years? Thomas Shiveley: 25-30 years I’ve seen in the last 3-4 years, I’ve seen a lot of concentration, a lot of expansion of programs and most of those programs are very helpful. Alex Fees: Yeah. Thomas Shiveley: And like some of these lecture programs that we’ve just come out of just a few months ago. Alex Fees: Sure. Thomas Shiveley: Are very, very helpful to the businessman and the associated personnel and so that overimpress by. And so, we are strong member of COSE. Alex Fees: Okay, will people get more information at COSE at cose.org. What about Innovative Industries? Where can they go to learn about your business? Thomas Shiveley: They can go to our website of Innovative Industries, I-N-N-O-V-A-T-I-V-E, innvovativeindurstries.com. Alex Fees: Okay, innovativeindustrie.com. Thomas Shiveley: Yes. Alex Fees: Thomas, thank you very much Sir. Thomas Shiveley: Thank you for having me. Alex Fees: He is Thomas Shiveley with Innovative Industries. I’m Alex Fees on Small Business Television coming with you from Cleveland at COSE 2008. That’s the Council on Smaller Enterprises, smaller I might add only in name.

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Alex Fees: I’m Alex Fees on Small Business Television. We are coming to you from Cleveland at the 2008 COSE Small Business and that’s COSE, the Council of Smaller Enterprises and joining me here now is Thomas Shiveley. Mr. Shiveley, good to meet you sir.
Thomas Shiveley: Hello.
Alex Fees: I appreciate you being here. Thomas is the president and founder of Innovative Industries. Thomas, what is Innovative Industries?
Thomas Shiveley: Innovative Industries is a small company primarily in the area of electric infrared heating with very hi-tech where have—let’s say aerospace heating which we would like be heating the skin of the shuttle.
Alex Fees: Wow.
Thomas Shiveley: To stimulate reentry temperatures on the shuttle, the work was actually performed on the X30. But today, it was carried over to the shuttle. We created 3000 degrees in three seconds on that spacecraft. 5.7 megawatts of energy that was through aims NASA. And the 5.7 megawatts of energy is all the energy being used with that maybe of 10 to 15 mile of radius right here.
Alex Fees: Okay, help me here, infrared?
Thomas Shiveley: Infrared, I-N-F-R-A-R-E-D, infrared energy.
Alex Fees: Infrared Energy Heating?
Thomas Shiveley: Yes.
Alex Fees: Okay, so aside of NASA, who need you?
Thomas Shiveley: Okay, in industry we’re very happy in the area of curing of coatings, curing of bonding, curing of all kind of materials.
Alex Fees: I see.
Thomas Shiveley: Process and curing materials but coating is the prime area. Now, in the coating industry, typically people use big hot air conventional ovens so people become accustomed turning control raising the temperature of the air. But to get a cure of a typically take 20 minutes of exposure and in our case, we typically cure 50 to 60 times even 80 times faster than the conventional methods.
Alex Fees: Why?
Thomas Shiveley: So, we can cure in a three foot long oven what a 100 foot or longer big conventional oven can cure. So, we’re very, very dynamic and not only the speed of curing but that we would actually be 25% of the energy. So, we’re all throughout—in our processing.
Alex Fees: Well Thomas, it sounds like a major corporation, are you a small business?
Thomas Shiveley: We’re small business and small company but our technologies are very vast.
Alex Fees: It sounds like that.
Thomas Shiveley: And we just need both you know. We need funds for growth. We have the potential, we have the potential customers not only are we curing products in all areas of industry, you know, the automotive, the industrial, very wide. Coating is a big industry and that’s involving wet coats and dry coats, wet coat paint and powder coat.
Alex Fees: Right.
Thomas Shiveley: So in wet coat, we actually can cure coating. Wet coat on a coating on a pipe 34 inches in diameter with maybe approaching a quarter inch stick, we can cure that in one second time.
Alex Fees: Right.
Thomas Shiveley: So, we’re extremely dynamic and we also are like involve in the clear coat curing industry. You see these big coils on the back of the big trucks you know.
Alex Fees: Right.
Thomas Shiveley: We can cure those coils at a rate of say 300 feet per minute and so our areas then beyond that we get into all kind of process heating, there is many, many areas of process heating so we specialized in those areas. We’re extremely capable not only in the infrared heating but also the controls. Excuse me.
Alex Fees: Thomas, tell me about innovative industries involvement here at COSE at the 2008 business conference.
Thomas Shiveley: I’ve been a member here perhaps 25-30 years.
Alex Fees: Really?
Thomas Shiveley: Yes.
Alex Fees: Wow.
Thomas Shiveley: So, we attend I would I guess maybe a 15-20 events a year.
Alex Fees: 15-20 a year?
Thomas Shiveley: Yes.
Alex Fees: Boy!
Thomas Shiveley: That’s because they have a lot of subgroups.
Alex Fees: Sure.
Thomas Shiveley: And we participate in those.
Alex Fees: Yeah.
Thomas Shiveley: We like everything that they offer. We would like to see them fruitfully be a little more dedicated to the industry rather than the support areas but we still support them very heavily.
Alex Fees: What about your company? What about Innovative Industries? How long is it been around?
Thomas Shiveley: We’re founded in 1977.
Alex Fees: So, it’s been around that long as well almost.
Thomas Shiveley: Very long time, you know there is many times in industry that first of all okay, we’re extremely heavy in the area of tubular heaters that we’re curing the—let’s call it host industry.
Alex Fees: Okay.
Thomas Shiveley: Cable, curing the cable you know the plastic around the cable but very, very heavy in curing profiles. So, this is like the insulating material as you would find around your automobile window, the windshields and throughout the entire vehicle. Extrusions in the—let’s say the construction industry extrusion for plastic extrusion for one dose.
Alex Fees: Okay.
Thomas Shiveley: For doors so we’re involved in many, many areas. Now, one area I don’t want to miss.
Alex Fees: Okay.
Thomas Shiveley: We have developed a system that was utilized for a program at Vancouver University Hospital in Canada.
Alex Fees: Vancouver?
Thomas Shiveley: Vancouver University Hospital. And there, we developed a system that would take a patient like a person under surgery, major surgery, he goes into hypothermia a lot of people don’t know that. He will lie there and shiver for maybe 45 minutes. And then he needs to be reheated so we have this body re-heater that we—on 50 patients had excellent results. We take the person out of shiver and about two minutes instead of 45.
Alex Fees: Wow.
Thomas Shiveley: So, we’re improving there stress and it can be life saving like when there is maybe some breaks through the eyes.
Alex Fees: Yeah.
Thomas Shiveley: Or maybe have a—
Alex Fees: Combating hypothermia.
Thomas Shiveley: Yes, hypothermia. So, our intent not only in the hospital areas of involvement, we would like to be involved in like an emergency helicopter, have the system—flight right to site. You know the guys down in the water or you’re flying there now.
Alex Fees: Right.
Thomas Shiveley: So, when they pull him out, that vehicles they’re bringing right in to this system and it can be a life saving system.
Alex Fees: Well Thomas, what about this—unique situation here. Aside of the changes in your industry talk to me about the changes in COSE that you’ve seen over what, 25-30 years?
Thomas Shiveley: 25-30 years I’ve seen in the last 3-4 years, I’ve seen a lot of concentration, a lot of expansion of programs and most of those programs are very helpful.
Alex Fees: Yeah.
Thomas Shiveley: And like some of these lecture programs that we’ve just come out of just a few months ago.
Alex Fees: Sure.
Thomas Shiveley: Are very, very helpful to the businessman and the associated personnel and so that overimpress by. And so, we are strong member of COSE.
Alex Fees: Okay, will people get more information at COSE at cose.org. What about Innovative Industries? Where can they go to learn about your business?
Thomas Shiveley: They can go to our website of Innovative Industries, I-N-N-O-V-A-T-I-V-E, innvovativeindurstries.com.
Alex Fees: Okay, innovativeindustrie.com.
Thomas Shiveley: Yes.
Alex Fees: Thomas, thank you very much Sir.
Thomas Shiveley: Thank you for having me.
Alex Fees: He is Thomas Shiveley with Innovative Industries. I’m Alex Fees on Small Business Television coming with you from Cleveland at COSE 2008. That’s the Council on Smaller Enterprises, smaller I might add only in name.

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