In Colorado, the recently legalized cannabis industry is booming, and it’s shown no signs of slowing down. Between 2009 and 2014, the industry generated over $2 billion in revenue, and forecasts predict sustained annual growth of approximately 23.3 percent between 2015 and 2019. This industry growth, along with the expanding medical market for cannabis-related treatments, is increasing the focus on marijuana cultivation processes throughout the state.

According to a report by the Colorado Department of Revenue, an average of more than 300,000 medical plants are cultivated each month, and the demands of the recreational market are driving continued increases in cultivation totals moving forward. Surna, Inc. (OTCQB: SRNA) is assisting cultivators through the manufacture of innovative technology and products that address the energy and resource intensive nature of indoor cultivation.

In particular, climate control plays a major part in the quality of product produced. With satisfactory climate control systems, cultivators can maximize productivity, quality and volume while minimizing monthly operating expenses. Surna’s proven line of climate control products addresses this market need. Offering a product line including commercial chillers, air handlers, dehumidifiers and other essential equipment, the company has carved out a substantial niche in the country’s most rapidly expanding industry.

Surna’s most innovative product is the Surna Reflector, which is hailed as the most efficient reflector on the market. Using point-source heat removal, the revolutionary tool removes heat created by the light bulb before it is disseminated throughout the room, providing cultivators with a reduction in overall cooling costs. In a recent press release, the company announced that it was closing in on commercialization of this game-changing system, highlighting the positive feedback received from initial testing.

In addition to continued product development, Surna’s financial growth has provided prospective investors with a glimpse of the company’s potential moving forward. In the first quarter of 2015, Surna recorded gross revenue of $870,895, which was equivalent to 47 percent of total revenues from 2014, as well as a 93 percent increase in deferred revenue, as compared to year-end results.

“We view these results as just the tip of the iceberg for Surna,” stated Tae Darnell, Principal Executive Officer of Surna. “We see this market growing exponentially and we intend to continue to execute on being the preeminent source for technology in cannabis and the CEA (controlled environment agriculture) space.”

As the cannabis market continues to mature throughout Colorado and around the country, Surna is in a strong strategic position to realize near limitless growth. Look for the company to continue increasing market share in the months to come, providing the opportunity for sustained investor returns for the foreseeable future.

For more information, visit www.surna.com

Since its founding in 1993, Loans4Less.com has made significant strides in growing its market share as a CA mortgage loan originator. With the company’s AAA rating with the Business Consumer Alliance, Loans4Less has built a strong reputation within the industry by consistently providing competitive rates, guaranteed closing costs, honest service and fast closing. By avoiding a warehouse line of credit and direct lending, the company isolates itself from many of the risks associated within lending industry, making Loans4Less a worthwhile investment opportunity as the housing market continues to recover.

In March, Loans4Less made a major step towards developing significant future returns through the pending acquisition of consumer lending and peer-to-peer technology platform 321LEND, Inc. Following this acquisition, the company will have the capability to originate both mortgages and consumer loans and build volume while rapidly gaining market share. Moving forward, Loans4Less will continue to search for a community bank or direct lending strategic partner to assist the company in launching a nationwide mortgage broker retail channel.

Under the leadership of CEO Steven M. Hershman, LFLS has turned its attention to national expansion. In August 2013, the executive outlined his intentions to grow the company’s potentially formidable brand through a single strategic partnership or joint venture relationships. By pushing LFLS onto the national stage, the potential for increased shareholder values can be amplified considerably. The Company is expected within day’s to release its Audited Financial Statements for 2013 & 2014 as it positions itself to be a fully reporting company and raise capital in order to execute its growth plans.

The company’s expansion efforts could be coming at the perfect time. According to a report by the Mortgage Bankers Association, the first quarter of 2015 recorded the most mortgage originations of any first quarter since 2010, and a related report forecasted a 13 percent increase in new home sales to close out the calendar year. As Loans4Less continues to expand its portfolio of services through strategic acquisitions and partnerships, it’s an intriguing time for potential investors in this proven loan origination company. Look for the company to make significant progress towards increasing its national brand awareness in the months to come.

For more information, visit www.Loans4Less.com

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Today is the third and final day of LD Micro’s 2015 Invitational Conference in Los Angeles where nearly 200 publicly traded companies and investors have convened for a series of corporate presentations, networking opportunities and social events.

Companies in attendance were carefully selected from their peers to present their innovations, operations and key management to retail and institutional investors. Spanning numerous industries, these companies were deemed by LD Micro as “great potential” plays working to secure a solid position in their respective market.

LD Micro’s overall mission is to provide investors with information on select public companies, and to this accord is providing attending investors the chance to interact with presenting companies and get a better idea of who is who in the micro-cap market.

To see the full list of presenting companies visit http://ldmicro.missionir.com/2015invitational/

MIT Holding saw its business grow above expectations in the first quarter, reporting triple-digit increases in revenues, service income and gross profit, and a drastically reduced net loss. The source for such incredible year-over-year growth? The company’s acceptance and adaptation to the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

While many companies have pushed back against the ACA, MIT Holding embraces the new healthcare law. Anything new means a change to the old ways of doing business. Fight the changes and you have a host of new problems to deal with on a daily basis. Change what you were doing, however, and those problems just seem to disappear.

Meaningful Use Rules under the ACA requires doctor and hospitals to document a patient’s recovery after discharge. This mandate creates significant obstacles for hospitals, such as how to track a patient’s recovery while they are at home and how to ensure they are taking the proper medications, therapies, and keeping multiple appointments. These challenges are sending hospitals nationwide scrambling to find a solution for these MUR requirements.

How serious is this to doctors and hospitals? Very. For example, let’s say a hospital bills Medicare/Medicaid for procedure “XYZ” and the allocated payment for that service is $10,000. The hospital must now follow up on the patient AFTER discharge.

Should the patient not recover or the hospital not properly document according to the rules, the hospital is penalized for the next year in that Medicaid/Medicare will pay all of those same procedures billed for the next year at a lower payout. So if the penalty is 10%, the hospital would only receive $9,000 for procedure “XYZ” for the NEXT 12 MONTHS.

Recognizing the steep implications hospitals may face under the new requirements under the ACA, MIT has developed a solution. MIT offers doctors and hospitals the ability to refer their patients to the company’s one-source recovery service. This first-of-its-kind concierge service starts as soon as the patient is discharged from the hospital, at which time they are met with an MIT representative. With the patient’s permission, MIT then assumes the responsibility of the recovery period.

MIT’s services are comprehensive to the at-home recovery phase, handling everything from in-home medical equipment, infusion services, medications, follow up appointments, therapy sessions, wound dressings, transportation, insurance inquires and professional insurance claim billing. The company’s goal is for the patient to feel as if the hospital went home with them. There will be no lapse in care. All the patient needs to do is follow the MIT professional health caregiver’s instructions and recover. On a daily basis, MIT will document the recovery of the patient, interacting with them one-on-one to help them heal properly, efficiently and quickly.

The digital paperwork the company maintains in order to monitor the patients recovery contains the information the hospital and doctors need to comply with the new rules. For a small and reasonable fee that information is now an email away.

With this solution, MIT has answered the question many hospitals are asking: “How do you track a patient once they have left the medical facility?”

When a pneumonia patient is discharged from the hospital and signed onto MIT’s system, the company expects that on average there will be from $12,000 to $15,000 in billable events. The company is prepared to capture those events and collect a fee for the digital paperwork documenting the recovery. A simple integration of the hospital software with MIT’s software should deliver that information in a format ready for filing with Medicare/ Medicaid.

The efficiency and growing popularity of MIT’s one-source solution is in the numbers.

In a recent 10Q filing, MIT reported first-quarter revenues of $489,854, more than double prior-year first-quarter revenues of $279,872. The company attributes this growth of 133.3% to an increase in customer referrals and subcontractor services. The first-quarter net loss of $9,654 represents a drastic cut from a loss of $105,726 a year ago. This resulted in a gross profit for the first quarter of $277,922, or 56.7%, as compared to gross profit for the same quarter in 2014 of $127,790, or 60.9%. Furthermore, new billing procedures improved the company’s accounts receivable by nearly 200%.

Moving forward, MIT will continue to embrace the ACA and the opportunities it provides for the company’s at-home recovery solutions and services.

“We deal in solutions not problems at MIT Holding and see no reason to fight the system,” says William Nalley, head of MIT’s investor relations. “When the problem occurs for the doctors and hospitals MIT Holding deliver the solutions. The benefit for MIT Holding is the captured billing events for that patient’s medical recovery.”

For more information, visit www.mitholdinginc.com

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Founded in the mid-1980s, ENGlobal is a specialty engineering services firm that focuses on providing automation and engineering solutions. The corporation caters to the energy industry and other markets within the United States and around the world.

While ENGlobal operates through two business segments (automation and engineering), a key portion of its business comes from the automation segment. This segment offers integrated services linked to designing, fabricating and implementing advanced automation, distributed control, instrumentation and process analytical systems – and its solutions fall under two categories: integration and engineering.

Automation Integration

The ENGlobal team brings together years of automation know-how and widespread industry experience to deliver a comprehensive set of wholly-integrated process, power and control solutions for projects worldwide. Systems fabrication, programming, assembly, testing and documentation are all done internally to guarantee reliable solutions each and every time. ENGlobal’s integration solutions fall into an assortment of categories including:

Analytical
• Analyzer maintenance data acquisition system
• Continuous monitoring systems
• Data acquisition systems

Control systems
• Burner management
• Control system panels
• Fire and gas protection systems
• Supervisory control and data acquisition

Hydrocarbon transportation and distribution
• Pipeline facilities
• Rail / truck and sea terminals

Industrial HVAC
• Advanced PLC-based diagnostics and health monitors
• Configurations for most Installations
• Health monitoring capabilities

Modular enclosures / buildings
• Blast resistant
• General purpose

Power solutions
• MCC / switchgear shelters
• Micro turbine power islands
• Power distribution bus stops

Automation Engineering

ENGlobal’s automation staff has the experience and knowledge to provide a variety of services for a broad range of automation and control system applications. The company can easily assemble a team to manage an automation project from conception through start-up and optimization, as well as to handle most of the tasks associated with automation and control systems.

Generally, ENGlobal’s automation engineering services comprise the project management, construction management and construction coordination of automation projects, such as plant re-instrumentations and expansions and grass roots instrument, electrical and control system installation. Other automation services include loop check, commissioning and start-up support of process control, power distribution and generation, analytical and EPA-regulated systems.

For more information, visit www.englobal.com

Net Element, a global technology provider in mobile payments and value-added transactional services, recently announced its acquisition of PayOnline, a leader in transaction processing services and payment technology. Through the acquisition, Net Element will gain a profitable subsidiary that provides an important growth catalyst through immediate access to over 10 million active consumers and thousands of merchants in the Russian Federation, Europe and Asia.

“PayOnline and Net Element’s assets are highly complementary and we can now leverage them to grow revenues by attracting more merchants and consumers to our omni-channel payments platform,” stated Oleg Firer, Chief Executive Officer of Net Element.

In particular, an opportunity to build on its established foothold in Russia makes this an exciting time for Net Element. The company has grabbed a significant share of the mobile payments market in the vital country in recent years through the continued expansion and adoption of its TOT Money platform. For two consecutive years, TOT Money has been ranked among the Top 3 mobile payment providers by one of Russia’s largest telecommunications operators, demonstrating the overall popularity and marketability of the company’s existing portfolio of brands.

By increasing its presence in Russia, Net Element should be in a strong position to realize significant growth moving forward. According to the 2014 McKinsey Global Payments Map, Russia represents the sixth largest payments market on the planet with approximately $50 billion in completed payments to go alongside a rapidly growing online population. With card issuance continuing to grow at 30 percent annually, the company’s potential for future growth in the region is effectively limitless.

Recently, Net Element prepared to expand its global presence by improving access to credit and reducing general and administrative expenses. In 2014, these efforts helped the company realize a 13 percent increase in net revenue, as compared to the previous year. With the global mobile payments market expected to grow by more than 65 percent by 2017, according to Statista, Net Element is in a strong position to realize significant investor returns moving forward. Look for the company to continue to increase its global market share in the years to come.

For more information, visit www.netelement.com

View Systems, a manufacturer of weapon detection identification systems, video management platforms and tele-data communication networks, today says it continues to install its integrated, non-invasive weapons detection systems at banks, police stations and additional schools in Michigan, Texas and California.

The company leverages a network of representatives and dealers to expand its customer base and installation of its products in widely distributed states. Its ViewScan product, in particular, is gaining popularity among schools, prisons, police stations, events and building lobbies seeking heightened and efficient security.

“Our ViewScan weapon detection system boasts numerous advantageous over ordinary metal detectors on the market,” View Systems Chief Executive Officer Gunther Than stated in the news release. “We’re excited about the momentum we have moving forward as more customers recognize the benefits of our system in providing efficient security measures for their facilities.”

ViewScan is an advanced walk-through Concealed Weapons Detection System (CWD) powered by highly sensitive, completely passive sensor technology that accurately detects the location and number of threat objects such as knives, guns and razor blades while ignoring personal artifacts like coins, keys and belt buckles. This unique ability accelerates throughput while reducing false positives.

Experts say that within the last 10 years the security industry has performed as one of the fastest-growing sectors of the global economy, conservatively estimated as a $100 billion-a-year industry. View Systems says it plans to continue to expand the installation of its revolutionary weapons detection system to better serve the demands of this growing market.

For more information, visit www.viewsystems.com

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Precision Optics Corporation, Inc. (OTCQB: PEYE) is a leader in the design and development of state of the art optical components and products for medical, biomedical and industrial applications. The company’s unique in-house approach to the design and manufacture of optical systems has helped Precision thrive in a collection of competitive market sectors for well over three decades. Whether clients need to see the inside of the heart or brain or visualize the effectiveness or usage of a drug or device, Precision has the tools needed to unlock near limitless possibilities.

Recently, Precision released its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2015, providing significant promise for the company in the months to come. In addition to recording its highest revenues in over a decade, the company realized a 16.6 percent improvement in gross margin.

“Our gross margin percentage was significantly higher than recent quarters… due to our focus over the last six months on increased manufacturing efficiencies, especially as we bring new products into production,” stated Joseph Forkey, Chief Executive Officer of Precision.

Among the leading causes of Precision’s boosted revenues was a significant increase in interest surrounding the company’s Microprecision™ technology, including its use in producing optics for reusable and single-use medical devices. Using this proprietary technology, the company is able to produce lenses as small as 0.2mm in diameter without the need to sacrifice on quality. New techniques in spinal surgery, neuro surgery, and other specialties require precise visualizations in very small spaces, demonstrating the existing demand for Precision’s revolutionary production technology. As the medical industry continues to advance in the coming years, the demand for these micro-optics should increase exponentially.

“We continue to see solid demand for our traditional products as well as early market acceptance of products based on our latest technology,” continued Forkey.

In December, Precision leveraged its Microprecision™ technology to aid in the completion of a new surgical microscope video adapter for Sony Electronics’ Medical Systems Division. Continued collaborations with high caliber customers will provide additional validation as to the quality of the company’s product offerings moving forward.

“Looking forward, we continue to see a strong pipeline of opportunities, particularly in the area of micro-optics and micro-assemblies,” concluded Forkey.

On the heels of one of the most successful financial quarters in recent memory, Precision is in a strong strategic position to increase its market share in the optics industry for years to come. Look for the company to continue expanding its pool of clients in order to provide further proof of concept regarding its unique ability to design, prototype and manufacture a host of optical components. Building on recent performances, Precision appears primed to provide substantial investor returns for the foreseeable future.

For more information, visit www.poci.com

Today marks day two of LD Micro’s 2015 Invitational investors conference in Los Angeles, where a lineup of more than 150 companies spanning a diverse range of industries are presenting their corporate initiatives to attending retail and institutional investors.

The conference lineup includes high-potential publicly traded companies operating within the biopharmaceutical, technology, energy, oil and gas, mining and many other exciting markets. Presenting companies are given the opportunity to raise their visibility in the investment community and make valuable networking connections over the course of the three-day event.

In a highly digital age, investor conferences like LD Micro’s invitational event provide companies the ability to physically make an appearance and meet with investors face-to-face.

Companies benefit from heightened market visibility, strong networking opportunities, and experience communicating their operations and innovations, while investors benefit by getting a first-hand look at some of the micro-cap markets most progressive emerging players.

For more information on the presenting companies visit http://ldmicro.missionir.com/2015invitational/

Something that the highly adaptable engineering, product development and manufacturing wizards at Galenfeha, Inc. (OTC: GLFH) have known for years, and which is just now really starting to be understood by the investment community, is that not all lithium battery technologies are made the same. Certain variations to the design and underlying chemistry can make a world of difference when it comes to crucial factors like discharge rate, output capacity over the life of the system, overall weight, and safety. The company has been steadily advancing the state-of-the-art in lithium iron phosphate cells and with Tesla so much in the news lately, it makes sense to take some time out and look at the compelling advantages of this technology compared to the off-the-shelf lithium ion cells in use by Tesla.

The recent announcement by Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA), commonly known for their high-end EV sedan, the Model S, that they are getting into the home power game with a new division called Tesla Energy, focused on developing home backup battery systems using technology similar to the lithium-ion array of small cylindrical cells used in the Model S, has sparked renewed interest in battery technology within the investment community. Tesla has made great strides in recent years to address the safety risks of their high energy density battery arrays, with the development of a proprietary cooling system that snakes through the pack and tighter system monitoring controls. The new home based battery systems, designed to work in concert with rooftop solar power or store energy from the grid during off-peak hours when electricity is cheapest, could be mounted on consumer’s walls in the very near future.

The initial rollout system, called the Powerwall, has already been described as essentially a boutique solution, much like the Model S is within the car market, sporting a sticker price in the $3k range for a 7kWh unit. Nevertheless, the Powerwall is being built to be hooked up in series, allowing as many as nine units to be stacked together to create a large uninterruptible battery backup for homes and businesses, meaning that if Tesla can effectively scale up to mass market penetration, such systems could change the way we look at powering residences and businesses forever. With over 50 million commercial rooftops in America alone, the fact that this system is designed to work with solar, improving the logistical viability of rooftop solar by allowing energy to be stored during peak harvesting times and then used when needed, could trigger a big push in residential solar applications, something that has been stalled due to the absence of such a solution. This distributed model could change the utility-dominated energy sector forever, giving consumers the power to buy grid electricity when it is cheap and also easily hook up rooftop solar to a redundant and uninterruptable supply.

Tesla has been successful in the EV market due to using relatively cheap, off-the-shelf type lithium-ion batteries with an NMC (nickel, manganese, cobalt oxide) cathode and then proprietarily arraying them into specialized packs, helping to keep the costs down and the energy densities high, meaning that the Model S has an effective range of 265 miles, or more than triple that of the Nissan (OTC: NSANY) Leaf. The increased costs of having to offset the danger of large high energy density cells, by using numerous smaller cells with an added cooling system and stacking them into a skid array that sits at the wheelbed of the vehicle and actually makes up part of the undercarriage, have mostly been addressed by Tesla and the company is now looking to produce more affordable cars in the $33k range, as well as smaller, more affordable versions of the Powerwall, in the near future.

One of the keys to successfully realizing widespread adoptance of a potentially revolutionary distributed energy model based on home storage systems, given that the 7kWh Powerwall ($300/kWhr for a 10 year warranty battery) clocks in at around $0.12/kWhr-cycle (or just over the price of a genset), will be getting the unit costs down and the life cycle up. Luckily there are companies out there like Galenfeha, which already has an established lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4, or LFP) cathode battery technology, offering a longer life cycle, greater energy density over the total life cycle of the battery, and electrochemistry that is inherently safer than lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO2), due largely to the thermal stability of iron. LiFePO4, which was historically less viable from a commercial standpoint due to technical limitations of electrical conductivity, is now rapidly emerging as a leading alternative to the typical lithium-ion batteries developed by the electronics industry, given that the technical limitations have been overcome by a variety of cost-effective design innovations.

LiFePO4 batteries have a higher current or peak-power rating than LiCoO2, as well as a lower discharge rate (slower rate of capacity loss and thus longer life cycle), and the avoidance of cobalt saves quite a bit of money, while also eliminating the environmental risks associated with having to dispose of cobalt batteries. Perhaps more importantly, given the improved thermal safety, LFP technology works great in larger cell sizes, making the technology ideal for developing large uninterruptible battery backups like Tesla’s Powerwall. Galenfeha’s LFP technology can also be easily scaled into economy/compact or large array systems, without a great deal of technical hassle or the need to develop new linkage systems. This means that the company has a ready-to-go solution that could seriously help accelerate the trend towards a home-based energy storage model. This distributed energy model, built around home storage units like Tesla’s proposed Powerwall system, has disruptive potential that is already forcing utility companies who thrive on the basis of centralized architectures, racing to think up some way to contain the potential damage to their pricing schemes.

With a solid history developing robust battery systems that can meet even the taxing requirements of oilfield operations, with features like rugged external packaging that is still designed to meet a small form factor, internal chemistry that is able to accommodate an extended shelf life and provide power during even extended usage, the ability to tolerate extreme temperatures, as well as high shock and vibration, Galenfeha’s LFP technology is a natural fit for uninterruptible distributed energy systems. Moreover, the company’s extensive knowledge amassed developing their proprietary BMS (battery management system), including a field-proven, remotely accessible, cloud-driven, integrated and GPS-enabled performance and asset tracking system, puts the company’s advanced LFP systems at the forefront within this increasingly attractive market. The ability to inspect the status of a battery system using code division multiple access (CDMA, radio communications channel access method used in many mobile phone standards) and actively track the battery via unique ESN identifiers and standard satellite geo-location, a solution which has already proven successful as an anti-theft mechanism in oilfield operations, gives Galenfeha’s LFP a fully integrated, user interface driven, real-time monitoring capability that should appeal to homeowners and businesses alike.

The company’s proprietary BMS keeps tabs on LFP battery status parameters like voltage, current and internal temperature during charging and discharging, giving users peace of mind and real-time situational awareness about the operational health and safety of their battery system, while also ensuring that the maximum life cycle is achieved by keeping the cells balanced and operating within the appropriate ranges. With internal over-charge, low voltage and short circuit protection, Galenfeha’s environmentally friendly LFP batteries are already ahead of the curve, without even taking into account performance characteristics like LiFePO4 chemistry that delivers 90% charge efficiency resulting in faster charge times and extremely low discharge rates if left dormant for extended periods of time, despite these batteries being exceptionally light.

Take a closer look at Galenfeha’s innovative battery tech by visiting www.galenfeha.com

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