$825,000 Defense Contract for UDC
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Life in the Fast Lane
Anne O’Neill has represented the Alsace region of France for 14 years
now, promoting the areas of trade, cultural relations, tourist
interests, and university associations. In that time she has staged
four biotech symposia, arranged numerous student exchanges, planned
visits for several delegations of Alsatians, and helped a retail firm
(Crabtree & Evelyn) find a site for its eastern European distribution.
She has just returned from leading the Princeton delegation to Colmar
to commemorate the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty.
Her current focus is importing an Alsatian beer with a scratch off
label. The label shows a girl wearing gold underwear. Scratch off the
gold to reveal the girl’s bare bottom. “It is not at all pornographic
and is just a lot of fun,” says O’Neill. United States regulations
forbid importing the beer with the original label, named “Alsacienne
Sans Culotte,” which translates to “Young Alsatian Maiden Wearing No
Panties.”
Those who belly up to the bars in Orlando where this beer is currently
being sold ask for “Fannie Beer,” says O’Neill, who emphasizes the
correct spelling of Fannie. “This is the only beer in the world with a
scratch off-label. And it’s good beer,” says O’Neill. Currently the
beer is sold in Pennsylvania and 11 other states, and she is working
on a distribution contract for New Jersey.
The daughter of a civil engineer, O’Neill is one of 11 children. She
attended Stuart Country Day School and majored in political science at
Smith College, Class of 1972. She is married to Peter O’Neill, an
attorney at Wills, O’Neill and Mellk on Nassau Street.
After teaching at Stuart, she had three children, worked in the
development office at Princeton University, and began to study French
at the adult school. “In 1990, someone told me the Alsatians were
looking for somebody to represent them who was living in their sister
city of Princeton,” says O’Neill. “If anybody at Smith had ever said I
would be helping sell a beer with a girl’s bare bottom, I would have
laughed.”
Alsace Development Agency, 470 Riverside Drive, Princeton08540. Anne O’Neill, U.S. director. 609-924-7357; fax, 609-497-0011.Www.ada-alsace.com.Top Of PageEthyPharm ExitsFounded in 1977 and based in St. Cloud, near Paris, EthyPharm usesoral and injectable methods to deliver active molecules to the body.The privately owned company moved into 5,000 square feet at 821Alexander Road late in 2002. But earlier this year EthyPharm moved outof its Princeton office.Its website claims it has 50 products that are sold in more than 70countries. Calls placed to its Canadian location were not returned,and E-mails to its French headquarters were not returned. No pressreleases have been posted on the website since June, 2003.Top Of PageNew in TownUnited Refrigeration, 115 Melrich Road, Cranbury 08512.William Foulkes, manager. 609-655-2844.United Refrigeration expanded from 11,000 square feet in New Brunswickto 17,000 feet on Melrich Road. Based in Philadelphia, the firm is awholesale distributor for commercial and residential refrigeration,air-conditioning, and heating systems and parts.Scott Belfer of CB Richard Ellis represented both the tenant and thelandlord, Melbroad Realty, LLC. Now 51 percent leased, 115 MelrichRoad has 121,020-square-feet. Also here is AmeriPak North, with 50,000square feet.Top Of Page$825,000 Defense Contract for UDCThink of the roll of aluminum foil in your kitchen. Then imaginerolling it out a few inches, or maybe a foot, and seeing maps, livephotos, and messages from your colleagues. It’s not science fiction;it’s full-color, active-matrix FOLED display technology built on metalfoil, and it’s being developed by Universal Display Corporation (UDC).The company, with headquarters in the Princeton Crossroads CorporateCenter, has just been awarded an $825,000 sub-contract by L-3Communications of New York City to build a prototype for the U.S. AirForce Research Laboratory.”The military wants it in the hands of its soldiers by 2007,” saysJanice Mahon, vice president of technology commercialization. UDC, shesays, is building the display portion of the advanced mobile device,and L-3 will add the electronics. UDC, whose research partner isPrinceton University, has been developing flexible plastic displayOLED (organic light emitting diode) devices for a number of years.Plastic is good, but for some environments, metal is better.”It’s more rugged,” says Mahon, “and it has a different form factor.”That “form factor” allows thin metal displays to be rolled down “likea window shade,” she explains. A soldier in the field could stash thedevice, which would do everything that an advanced PDA could do – andpossibly even more – in a very small space, and then could roll it outwhen he needed it for information or communication.Involved in futuristic technology for all of her professional life,Mahon is a graduate of RPI (Class of 1979), who holds an MBA fromHarvard. Before joining UDC seven years ago, she worked for SageElectrochomics, a Rutgers research partner that was developing, amongother things, “smart windows” that change colors, becoming darker atthe flick of a wall switch.She calls the L-3 sub-contract UDC has just received “verysignificant.” She is quite sure that the company is alone in workingon metal OLED technology. UDC has other defense contracts, althoughMahon is not sure what percentage of its work is for defense agencies.The company also has contracts from the Department of Energy, for whomit is working on white OLED technology for lights.Congressman Rush Holt is making the official announcement of the L-3sub-contract at UDC’s headquarters on Monday, July 19, at 11:30 a.m.Universal Display Corporation Inc. (PANL), 375 PhillipsBoulevard, Ewing 08618. Steven Abramson, president. 609-671-0980; fax,609-671-0995. Home page: www.universaldisplay.comTop Of PageContracts AwardedCon-Way Integrated Services, 1265 South River Road, SouthRiver Road, Suite 100, Cranbury 08512. Rick Reyes, logistics centermanager. 609-655-1400; fax, 609-409-2770. Home page: www.con-way.comCon-Way Transportation Services renewed its lease for 233,478 squarefeet at South River Road Park. Kenneth D. Lundberg of NAI James E.Hanson represented the tenant, and Trammell Crow Company’s PaulTorosian and Karen Iman represented the landlord, TIAA-CREF.Founded in 1929, Con-Way is a third party logistics provider that doeswarehousing, transportation, fulfillment, assembly, andremanufacturing.The Chauncey Group, a division of Capstar, 664 RosedaleRoad, Princeton 08540-0001. Michael Fitton, president & CEO.609-720-6500; fax, 609-720-6550. Home page: www.capstarlearning.comA division of Capstar, Experior Assessments LLC, has renewed itscontract for cosmetology examinations with the professional board inNevada. Experior produces national cosmetology examinations that offerstate-to-state reciprocity. It develops exams for such occupations asinsurance, real estate, construction, and food safety. Anotherdivision of Capstar is the Chauncey Group. The not-for-profitEducational Testing Service owns all the shares of the for-profitCapstar.NexMed (USA) Inc. (NEXM), 350 Corporate Boulevard,Robbinsville 08691. Joseph Mo, chairman, CEO, and president.609-208-9688; fax, 609-208-1868. Home page: www.nexmed.comSchering AG of Germany has agreed to market the lotion, Alprox-TC,developed by NexMed to help men with erectile dysfunction. If theGerman drug company get the necessary approvals, the European Unionmarket could have lucrative sales, from $200 million to $500 millionannually, say officials of NexMed. Schering AG (as differentiated fromSchering-Plough of north Jersey), also has marketing networks inRussia, the Middle East, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.For three years Alprox-TD has been sold in China and Hong Kong asBefar cream. Founded in 1987, NexMed has yet to show a profit or tointroduce the drug to consumers in the United States. It needs tocomplete an additional Phase III study before it can receive approvalfrom the Food and Drug administration.Top Of PageDeathsPhilip G. Stein, 62, on June 24. A measurement scientist, he hadworked at David Sarnoff Research Center and had his own consultingfirm. A service will be Saturday, July 24, at 11:30 a.m., with amemorial at 1 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Church in Pennington.Dominick Solazzo, 58, on July 8. Most recently owner of Illusions inPaint, a residential painting company, he previously had been managerin the Pension Planning Department at Merrill Lynch on College Road.William Stackpole, 78, on July 11. An attorney who also had a master’sin psychology, he worked as a counselor at Right Associates and servedon the board of McCarter Theater and worked as a volunteer forRecording for the Blind and Dyslexic.Corrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
