BUSINESS INCUBATOR Turning Technologies gets more recognition

The company's small keypad is what's drawing attention.
YOUNGSTOWN -- Turning Technologies, a company located in the Youngstown Business Incubator, continues to get national attention for its high-tech innovations.
Sales & amp; Marketing Management Magazine, with a circulation of more than 70,000, highlighted Turning Technologies' new credit card sized, infrared keypad, TurningPoint™, in its November publication.
TurningPoint™ is an interactive audience response system that enables presenters or lecturers to show real-time meeting or audience responses on slides through PowerPoint™.
The magazine presented a product review from customer Kent Hutchison, president of C. J. Baxter Group, an employee development firm in Nacogdoches, Texas, who noted that he used the TurningPoint™ system at a presentation for a recently acquired client, which he partially credited for picking up an additional $31,000 of business from that customer.
Mike Broderick, president and CEO, said business at Turning Technologies has been very strong with the sale of more than 75,000 TurningPoint™ units since June.
"We knew it was going to do well. It has surpassed our expectations. Demand has been especially high in higher education with colleges and universities," he said.
Higher education
Youngstown State University, Ohio University and Ohio State University are among the 10 universities in Ohio that are using this new technology.
Broderick noted, "We're planning for fast growth in 2005 and we'll be announcing the introduction of new products soon and new relationships with global companies."
The Boardman resident said that these new products and partnerships will result in the hiring of additional employees. Currently, Turning Technologies has a partnership with Dell Computer and Thomson, a Canadian publishing conglomerate.
The high-tech company was established as a subsidized, start-up company at the Youngstown Business Incubator under a state program in 2002, but now Broderick said the company is a rent-paying occupant intent on growing and staying in business in downtown Youngstown.