Green Team Member Medifast: A Great Weight-Loss and Energy-Reduction Model 

by RMI RMI Energy Efficiency, Green Team, NEXTgen-M, RMI News

Dr. William Vitale founded Medifast in 1980 primarily as a doctors’ and physicians’ referral business that provided specially formulated meal-replacement plans for life-saving weight loss. Today, the business has expanded as a business-to-consumer sales company that provides meal-replacement products for everyday consumers.  The company started out providing low-calorie shakes, using doctors and hospitals as the […]

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RMI Green Team Member Maryland Thermoform Prides Itself on Innovation and Custom Solutions

by RMI RMI Energy Efficiency, Green Team, NEXTgen-M, RMI News

At its heart, Maryland Thermoform’s business is all about heating a sheet of plastic, draping it over a mold and allowing it to cool for various customer design needs. But it’s much more than that. Technologically, it gets more complicated than molding plastic sheeting. “Thermoforming is a very creative process. It’s kind of like a […]

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RMI’s NextGenM Energy Forum Recap

by RMI RMI Energy Efficiency, Green Team, NEXTgen-M, RMI News

Leading Maryland Manufacturers Publicly Endorse RMI Energy Efficiency Approach Companies in RMI program project annual savings of $597,000 Over 250 manufacturing stakeholders came together at RMI’s Energy Forum in Timonium to learn about RMI’s new energy efficiency program, which was launched last fall, and heard directly from the first two groups of companies who are […]

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Green Team Member U.S. Gypsum Continues to Create Innovative Products

by RMI RMI Energy Efficiency, Green Team, NEXTgen-M, RMI News

For more than 110 years, Chicago-based United States Gypsum (a subsidiary of USG Corporation) has been a leader in producing innovative construction materials like Ultra Lightweight drywall and joint compound used throughout the residential and commercial environment. While you’re strolling the aisles of Home Depot, you’re sure to see USG’s unique Ultra Lightweight products on […]

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UMD Alumni Hatch Sub-$300 3D Printer, Raise $3.3 Million on Kickstarter

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  The Micro produced by Maryland manufacturer M3D Two University of Maryland graduates have designed The Micro, a consumer-friendly, sub-$300 3D printer, and are quickly staging one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns of all-time to produce it, hauling in $3.3 million with more than 10,000 backers. The Micro raced past its $50,000 goal in just […]

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Register for RMI’s NextGenM Energy Forum – June 3, 2014

by RMI RMI Energy Efficiency, Green Team, NEXTgen-M, Past Events

Manufacturers: Looking to save money on your energy spend? Look no further than our “NextGen-M Energy Forum,” which we are hosting in partnership with the Maryland Energy Administration. Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley will serve as the event’s keynote speaker. The event will also feature 12 leading Maryland manufacturing companies who are committed to our energy […]

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