{"id":969,"date":"2007-06-04T14:21:50","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T14:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vibrant.bdnvisuals.com\/2007\/06\/04\/1m-angel-round-for-vibrant-albuquerque-journal\/"},"modified":"2007-06-04T14:21:50","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T14:21:50","slug":"1m-angel-round-for-vibrant-albuquerque-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/1m-angel-round-for-vibrant-albuquerque-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"$1M &#8222;Angel&#8220; Round for Vibrant (Albuquerque Journal)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Andrew Webb, o<span style=\"background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.5em;\">f The Journal<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>TECH BYTES: $1M &#8222;ANGEL&#8220; ROUND FOR VIBRANT: Vibrant Corp., an Albuquerque\u00a0company that uses vibration and statistical analysis to test precision aircraft parts, has received\u00a0$1 million in investments from local and out-of-state private investors.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Lem Hunter says the money will be used to finish pilot projects with engine builders\u00a0Williams International and Rolls Royce, and with Delta Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Vibrant uses technology licensed from another Albuquerque firm, Quasar International, that\u00a0nondestructively tests engine parts by measuring vibration. The system can be used to cull bad\u00a0parts from manufacturing lines, and to test parts that have already been used during engine\u00a0overhauls.<\/p>\n<p>Investors include J.T. Michelson, of Albuquerque aircraft parts manufacturer Sun Country\u00a0Industries, and local investor and entrepreneur Dave Durgin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vibrant Corp., an Albuquerque company that uses vibration and statistical analysis to test precision aircraft parts, has received $1 million in investments from local and out-of-state private investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibrantndt.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}