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High-tech testing lab coming to Terre Haute

on 05 November 2007. Posted in News - Archived

TERRE HAUTE - A new high-tech testing laboratory appears to be set for construction soon in Terre Haute.

VEXTEC, a company co-founded by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology graduates that uses sophisticated computer technology to test things such as jet engines, could be breaking ground on a high-tech laboratory facility near Terre Haute International Airport-Hulman Field soon, airport and VEXTEC officials said Friday.

"We're working toward closing" a deal, said George Brattain, a Terre Haute attorney representing VEXTEC, a Nashville, Tenn.-based company co-founded by Rose-Hulman graduates Loren Nasser and Robert Tryon III. "Hopefully that [closing] will occur soon," Brattain said. (READ MORE... LINK TO THE TRIBUNE-STAR)