Media cover Bridge-In-A-Backpack spinoff company’s deal with international firm
The Bangor Daily News, WABI (Channel 5), WVII (Channel 7), WLBZ (Channel 2), CompositesWorld and Mainebiz reported Advanced Infrastructure Technologies (AIT), a University of Maine spinoff company, has signed a distribution and marketing agreement for North America with Terre Armee Group/Reinforced Earth Company. The agreement will help grow adoption of UMaine’s patented composite arch bridge technology in the country, with the intent to expand into international markets. AIT commercializes the composite arch bridge technology developed by the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center originally known as Bridge-In-A-BackpackTM. UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, led by Habib Dagher, started developing the technology around 2000, and it spent 10 years testing and proving it. In 2010, it went to market through AIT, the BDN reported. “Adding the composite arch bridge system to our portfolio is an exciting development that will fuel the growth of both Terre Armee and AIT in the coming years,” said Roger Bloomfield, CEO of Terre Armee.