"Innovive is committed to providing the highest customer service standards in the industry and there's no better way to do that than to be closer to our customers. Following a rigorous selection process, we have partnered with Tighe Logistics Group, an organization that shares our commitment to that level of excellence. Expanding our operation on the East Coast will immediately benefit customers by shortening product transit times and providing the best delivered goods pricing."

Innovive customers will benefit from Tighe's extensive warehousing, fulfillment and logistics expertise, including a delivery fleet servicing the New England area. Tighe's proprietary technology platform is fully integrated with Innovive's customer service ordering system, enabling seamless order execution. Innovive will leverage Tighe's excellent on-time delivery record and experience servicing the needs of the biomedical research community to offer its East Coast customers the highest customer service possible.

About Innovive: Innovive Inc was founded in 2004 with the goal of radically transforming the economics and convenience of working with laboratory animals. Using advanced computer-aided design and manufacturing processes, Innovive creates reliable disposable rodent caging systems to provide research facilities with superior quality, performance, and cost savings. Our products are independently tested and validated to assure trouble-free operation, and our global manufacturing and distribution network provides advantageous pricing and rapid order fulfillment.

About Tighe Logistics Group: Established in 1862 and based in Massachusetts, Tighe is a leading provider of integrated logistics services in the northeastern United States, providing supply chain management solutions including domestic transportation, warehousing, freight brokerage, and consulting services. Tighe services a broad range of industries including high tech, biomedical research, health care and food industries.

The program recognized Innovive's contribution to sustainable business development. In the course of implementing the Material Consumption and Waste Reduction Program, the company redesigned the manufacturing process at the San Diego manufacturing facility. This process optimization resulted in a 50% cutback of used materials and produced waste.

Innovive also pioneered a closed-loop recycling service program, assuming full responsibility for its product at every stage of the production cycle. Used disposable caging is collected directly from customer sites and returned to Innovive's San Diego recycling facility for composting and recycling. Since December 2010, 56,800 lbs of plastic have been diverted from landfills and 91,200 lbs of soiled bedding have been composted at the local municipal facility.

About Innovive: Innovive Inc was founded in 2004 with the goal of radically transforming the economics and convenience of working with laboratory animals. Using advanced computer-aided design and manufacturing processes, Innovive creates reliable disposable rodent caging systems to provide research facilities with superior quality, performance, and cost savings. Our products are independently tested and validated to assure trouble-free operation, and our global manufacturing and distribution network provides advantageous pricing and rapid order fulfillment.

Innovive Inc, a San Diego based manufacturer of racking systems and single use plastics to the biomedical research community, is delighted to be recognized with this award for their commitment to waste reduction. Innovive tackled this responsibility on two fronts; first by reducing the amount of packaging waste entering their business, and second by assuming responsibility for their products, post-consumer. The former was achieved by implementing a material consumption and waste reduction program at their manufacturing facility in San Diego. In 2010 they diverted 50% of their in-house waste by using municipal recycling services along with private 3rd party recyclers for material not accepted in the municipal stream. They also implemented a product and packaging design review that will cut the amount of material used in production by an estimated 60% in 2011. Additionally, Innovive encompassed producer responsibility by setting up a program where used products are collected from customers and returned to San Diego for environmentally friendly composting and recycling.

In 2009 Innovive invested in a 10,000sq ft recycling plant featuring a proprietary high capacity plastics separation and granulation line and a dedicated fleet of recycling vehicles. Their recycling line separates plastics from compostable materials and then processes plastics back into clean PET 1 flake. The compostable material is aggregated and sent to the Miramar Greenery compost facility located at the Miramar Landfill. Innovive provides a pick-up service for customers in California including Universities and Biotech Companies. This program diverted over 35,000 pounds of plastic flake and 22,000 pounds of compostable bedding from the landfill at Miramar annually.

"We take great pride in this award" said Jim Fallon, President and COO of Innovive Inc. "It is exciting to be able to provide innovative solutions to our customers in the Bio-medical industry. Our customers are increasingly interested in dealing with vendors who provide creative, sustainable solutions for the full life cycle of a product. Our substantial investment in our own recycling infrastructure allows us to provide solution to customer's issues and allows us to extend our commitment to waste reduction."

About Innovive: Innovive Inc was founded in 2004 with the goal of radically transforming the economics and convenience of working with laboratory animals. Using advanced computer-aided design and manufacturing processes, Innovive creates reliable disposable rodent caging systems to provide research facilities with superior quality, performance, and cost savings. Our products are independently tested and validated to assure trouble-free operation, and our global manufacturing and distribution network provides advantageous pricing and rapid order fulfillment.

The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), a nonprofit biomedical research institution, is also the world's leading distributor of mouse models of human diseases. The new Importation facility is a new construction containment facility for receiving, housing and processing "imported" mice of unknown health status that are delivered from other institutions around the world. The building includes a 5,000-pen-capacity vivarium for housing mice. Other facilities housed in the building are an in vitro fertilization lab for harvesting and processing eggs, sperm and embryos; a cryogenic storage facility with 20 large LN2 tank freezers; a cryopreservation sample processing laboratory; and a BSL2cell culture laboratory for importing cell lines.

The vivarium was designed specifically for Innovive Disposable Caging. The entire project was completed without a supporting cage wash or sterilizing operation. At capacity the facility will house 5,000 cages of mice in Innovive disposable caging that will reside in dual ventilated IVC racks. The design also included an innovative bio-safety cabinet design by The Baker Company of Sanford, Maine. The BSC provides an ergonomic cage change process using disposable caging.

The facility was designed by lead architect RMW Architecture of Sacramento, Calif., and WBRC of Bangor, Maine, for engineering services associated with mechanical, electrical and plumbing design, and Woodard and Curran for site permitting, site design and civil work.

About The Jackson Laboratory: Founded in 1929, The Jackson Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution based in Bar Harbor, Maine, with a facility in Sacramento, California. Its mission is to discover the genetic basis for preventing, treating and curing human diseases, and to enable research and education for the global biomedical community. The Jackson Laboratory's JAX(R) Mice & Services division supplies thousands of research mouse models and extensive research services to accelerate basic research and early stage drug discovery worldwide.

About Innovive: Innovive Inc was founded in 2004 with the goal of radically transforming the economics and convenience of working with laboratory animals. Using advanced computer-aided design and manufacturing processes, Innovive creates reliable disposable rodent caging systems to provide research facilities with superior quality, performance, and cost savings. Our products are independently tested and validated to assure trouble-free operation, and our global manufacturing and distribution network provides advantageous pricing and rapid order fulfillment.

The course will provide an overview of designing for a disposable facility and will address the following:

1. Strategies for the most efficient facility layout, with a focus on storage space, caging density, one-way materials flow and improved bio-security.
2. An overview of health and safety considerations including immediate and long-term benefits that accrue from eliminating the washroom, as well as ergonomic reasons for using lighter weight disposable caging.
3. A detailed computational model that compares the total lifetime cost of a traditional animal facility to one designed and operated with disposable cages.
4. Environmental assessment of disposable caging, from manufacturing and customer use to disposal.

About Innovive: Innovive Inc was founded in 2004 with the goal of radically transforming the economics and convenience of working with laboratory animals. Using advanced computer-aided design and manufacturing processes, Innovive creates reliable disposable rodent caging systems to provide research facilities with superior quality, performance, and cost savings. Our products are independently tested and validated to assure trouble-free operation, and our global manufacturing and distribution network provides advantageous pricing and rapid order fulfillment.