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DENVER, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Platte River Equity ("Platte River") today announced the sale of its portfolio company, Hetsco, Inc. ("Hetsco") to Global Power Equipment Group Inc. (Nasdaq: GLPW) ("Global Power"). Headquartered in Greenwood, Indiana and founded in 1981, Hetsco is the leading provider of emergency and planned repairs for brazed aluminum heat exchangers, the critical process equipment used in air separation and other gas processing applications. Hetsco also...

Top nature and birding tour company, Naturalist Journeys, announces exciting bird-watching tour to view spectacular Sandhill Cranes in Nebraska with expert guides. Lincoln, Nebraska (PRWEB) December 21, 2012 Naturalist Journeys, a top Nature Tour Company, is proud to announce their upcoming Nebraska Platte River Guided Birding Tour of the famous Sandhill Cranes. Expert birding tour guides Ed and Sil Pembleton have been traveling to see the annual Sandhill Crane migration on the Platte...

DENVER, Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Platte River Equity ("Platte River") announced today that it has acquired The WellMark Company, LLC ("WellMark" or the "Company"). Founded in 1981 and headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, WellMark manufactures liquid and pneumatic flow controls and valves serving the oil and gas and petrochemical industries. "We are pleased about WellMark's new partnership with Platte River Equity," said Dick Pfieffer, co-founder of the Company. "The...

DENVER, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Platte River Ventures ("Platte River"), a Denver, CO based private equity firm, announced the sale of its portfolio company, PRV Aerospace, LLC ("PRV Aerospace"), to an affiliate of Court Square Capital Partners ("Court Square"), a private equity firm headquartered in New York, NY. Headquartered in Everett, WA, PRV Aerospace is an aerospace and defense group that supplies components, subassemblies and assemblies to the world's leading...

Denver-based Platte River Networks Earns Prestigious 2011 MVP of the USA Western Region from World's Largest Technology Distributor Denver, CO (PRWEB) June 29, 2011 Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM), the world's largest information technology distributor, awarded Platte River Networks with the 2011 MVP of the USA Western Region at the 2011 Cloud Summit in Phoenix, Arizona June 1 "“ 2, 2011. The Ingram Micro Cloud Summit is the IT industry's leading partner-focused, education and training...

DENVER, Dec. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Platte River Ventures announced today that it acquired all of the outstanding stock of Car-Ber Testing Services ("Car-Ber" or the "Company"), in partnership with the founders of the Company. Headquartered in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, Car-Ber is a leading provider of technical support and maintenance services to the petrochemical industry. "We are excited about this transaction and the opportunity it will afford our company to achieve its full...

DENVER, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Platte River Ventures announced today that it took a controlling stake in Global X-Ray & Testing Corp. ("Global X-Ray" or the "Company") in partnership with the Company's founding family. Headquartered in Morgan City, Louisiana, Global X-Ray is a leading provider of non-destructive testing and evaluation services to the oil and gas industry. "We are very excited and looking forward to working with our new partners at Platte River Ventures," said Chris...

HUDSON, Colo., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- BTrenchless, a Division of BT Construction, Inc., of Henderson, Colorado, just completed 4,200 linear feet of tunnels and bores for Aurora's Prairie Waters project. These tunnels were crucial to the completion of the $754,000,000 project. BTrenchless utilized various construction methods to account for the diverse ground conditions, including seven Microtunnels, four TBM's, two Hammer bores, and six Auger bores. Sizes of the installed tunnels ranged...

By Leslie Reed, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Jul. 25--ALDA, Neb. -- An unusual agreement on a 150-acre field near the Platte River has helped a young farmer purchase his first tract of land and the Nature Conservancy to protect habitat for whooping cranes and other migratory birds. The conservation easement on Troy Rainforth's soybean field is unusual because it allows wildlife habitat to also be farmed, said John T. Heaston of Cozad, Neb., director of the Nature Conservancy's Platte River...

By David Hendee, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Jul. 24--RED CLOUD, Neb. -- The old tree-choked, shrub-infested, island- jammed ditch south of town has a new function this summer. A river runs through it. For the first time in at least 10 years, the Republican River is reclaiming its channel, flowing faster and virtually unhindered from the Harlan County Dam to Kansas, thanks to a new program to remove invasive vegetation. "We've got a good thing started here," said Mike Clements, general...