High Performance - Out to Lunch - It's Baton Rouge

In 2000, an LSU engineering professor named Kevin Kelly got an idea
to build compact, efficient heat exchangers that would help engines
perform better. Today, Mezzo is one of the leading companies in the
country in the area of micro tube heat exchanger technology, and
the company s products are used in dozens of applications and
across industries from aerospace to oil and gas to, believe it or
not, high performance auto racing. It s not the kind of technology
you think of when you think of Louisiana, which is what makes the
story of Mezzo such a great one. On this edition of Out to Lunch
Mezzo co founder and company President Kevin Kelly tells host
Stephanie Riegel about the growth of Mezzo and the market for its
products. Mezzo got its start in the Bon Carre business incubator
more than a decade ago. Another impressive Baton Rouge tech company
that also started out in an incubator the LSU business and
technology center is CAP Technologies. The company is providing an
invaluable service to big industry and to the environment it has
created an environmentally friendly way of cleaning and coating
metals, using electricity and benign electrolytes instead of harsh
acids. CAP Technologies founder and President Eddie Daigle charts
the rise of his company from its fascinating genesis during the 6
years he spent working with Russian scientists in what was then the
Soviet Union. As surprising as it might be that Baton Rouge is the
home of world leaders in engine and metal performance, you may be
equally surprised to discover that we re also innovators in human
performance, thanks to Adrian Cornish, Nathan Roy, and their
startup company Apex Resistance and Conditioning. Apex co founder
Nathan tells Stephanie about the company s revolutionary wearable
gym a workout suit that uses the same kind of all over resistance
you encounter in water, on dry land to increase effectiveness of a
workout by up to 100 for some muscle groups. And that s not just a
wild claim, that s the result of year s study by the LSU
Kineseology department. Photos on this page taken at Mansur s on
the Boulevard by Katie Barnett.

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