Technology grants benefit UD research, UltraCell Corp.

COLUMBUS — The University of Dayton Research Institute and UltraCell Corp. will benefit from new grants from Ohio’s Third Frontier program, which supports development of technology for commercial markets in the interest of creating jobs.

UDRI is working with Ershigs Inc., a Brown County company in the village of Aberdeen, and the Kettering-based Edison Materials Technology Center in a project to develop composite-materials towers to support power-generating wind turbines. Third Frontier awarded a $1.1 million grant to Ershigs which is to design, build and test components for a tower, state officials said.