Article originally featured in The Daily Record July 1, 2005 Issue

Article featured in the July 1, 2005 issue of The Daily Record.

A green company that saves businesses greenbacks. What could be better than that? Nothing, say executives at Columbia Technologies LLC.

“We have a broad appeal,” said Ned Tillman, president and co-founder. “Environmental types like us for our less invasive procedures, but businesses like us because we can save them a lot of money. We’re in a pretty good position.”

The 6-year-old company has found a clean and fast way to measure subsurface pollution. While giving the environmentally concerned reason to cheer, Columbia is doing its share to keep commerce, particularly the real estate marketing, humming.

“Real estate transactions can close a lot faster now,” Tillman said. “Before, a lot of deals would fall apart because of the time it would take to find out if there was contamination on a property. With our technology you can know that in a day.” Read the rest of this entry »