Uranium Energy is a U.S.-based uranium mining and exploration company operating its fully licensed Hobson Processing Plant as the core of all its South Texas projects, including the Palangana in-situ recovery (ISR) mine, the permitted Goliad ISR project, and the development-stage Burke Hollow ISR project. In addition, Uranium Energy controls a pipeline of advanced-stage projects in Arizona, Colorado and Paraguay. By utilizing the Hobson facility, Uranium Energy has eliminated the need to construct a new onsite processing plant for each project.

Billions of dollars are invested in nuclear projects around the world, and while many uranium plays like Cameco Corp. (NYSE:CCJ) maintain chief projects abroad, Uranium Energy is among several other U.S.-focused companies including Uranium Resources, Inc. (NASDAQ:URRE) and Energy Metals Corp. (NYSE:EMC).

Uranium Energy also controls one of the nation’s largest databases of historic uranium exploration and development, which the company uses to acquire and advance exploration of merit throughout the southwestern U.S., a region that has historically been the most concentrated area for uranium mining in the states. With the use of these historical exploration databases, the company identifies acquisition targets that were previously the subject of significant exploration and development by senior energy companies.

Last month Uranium Energy reported the $3.08 million sale of the majority of its uranium inventory at a sale price of $38.50 per pound, 8.5 percent higher than the spot price. As the uranium industry continues its recovery from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and falling uranium prices in 2014, long-term forecasts call for $49 a pound; and Uranium Energy appears to be positioned to capitalize on anticipated market price recovery. Since the company’s production is unhedged and therefore separated from fixed-price contracts, it has wiggle room to wait for a spot price recovery as it ramps up production at Palangana.

For more information visit www.uraniumenergy.com

Definitive Rest Mattress Company is reshaping its business operations in an effort to increase shareholder returns moving forward. In recent months, the company has officially disbanded its previous mattress operations in favor of a new direction focused on metals sales and computer numerical control (CNC) manufacturing. DRMC’s January acquisition of NU Metals Technology, a high grade metals and tooling solutions provider for the aerospace industry, was the first step toward this business transformation.

“We have a clear objective that is driven by technology, beginning with our acquisition of NU Metals Technology,” Juan Carlos Murga, chief executive officer of DRMC, stated in a news release. “[W]e look to the future with long-term growth in all areas of the company by bringing value to shareholders.”

In a recent press release, the company highlighted its early performance results in the aerospace, defense and commercial component manufacturing sectors.

“Recent orders from Asia and domestic companies for stainless and aluminum have set the tone for NU Metals Technology by securing orders until the end of 2015,” continued Murga. “[O]ur future is solid moving forward with new business partners, new company direction and a new mindset; our shareholders will be happy to see DRMC sales activity on the next quarterly report.”

In addition to pushing toward the completion of development on its new corporate website in order to better showcase its new line of products, DRMC is on pace to meet its revenue projections for the third quarter of 2015, according to the company’s management team. In the weeks to come, the company will look to build on this progress and complete its metamorphosis through the announcement of a new corporate name that better reflects its new business operations.

According a report by IBISWorld, the machine shop services industry, including commercial aerospace and transportation manufacturing markets, have experienced robust growth since 2010, climbing to $47 billion in 2015. In the next five years, continued growth is forecast as a result of heightened demand across a collection of manufacturing industries, providing DRMC with ample opportunity to improve financial results.

For prospective investors, DRMC’s recent shift into metal sales and CNC manufacturing could provide an opportunity for sustainable returns in the months to come. The company’s strong revenue projections for the second half of 2015 provide a positive outlook for continued market growth moving forward.

“We are very excited with the company’s rebirth into a vibrant new enterprise within the metals industry and machine tool industry that stretches across many lucrative sectors in manufacturing,” concluded Mulga. “We will leave the old operations behind and look forward to better growth potential and shareholder value with our new direction into these two sectors in industry and technology.”

For more information, visit www.numetalstech.com

According to a report from MarketsandMarkets out in late 2014, the global security screening technology market is on track to hit upwards of $9.1 billion by 2020, growing at a CAGR of roughly 9.4 percent, as point of entry demand and the need to security screen at locations like airports, border checkpoints, railways, schools, sports stadiums, high-profile corporate sites, or government and private facilities like correctional institutions, continues to grow. Security threats ranging from the recent biker shootout in Waco, Texas, to drug trafficking on the southern border with Mexico, as well as the continued rise around the world from terrorism, have created an environment where the need for ubiquitous weapon detection screening systems is paramount. This is particularly true when such screening systems, in combination with other security measures, can provide defensive perimeter solutions that stop bad guys carrying threat objects such as knives, guns, and razor blades in their tracks, identifying and documenting the threat before any lives are lost.

Premier global provider of market intelligence and advisory services, International Data Corporation, foresees a similar degree of growth for the global security and vulnerability management (SVM) sector, with a 10.2% CAGR projection through 2018, citing a marked 9.7 percent increase from the roughly $4 billion in revenues generated during 2013, to roughly $4.4 billion last year. One of the more attractive players in this market is the firmly established and highly competent security services firm, View Systems (OTC: VSYM), which also develops both the proprietary hardware and software needed to realize their growing portfolio of threat detection and ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) products, including their flagship walk-through CWD (concealed weapons detection) system, the ViewScan.

ViewScan is a robust and highly advanced gateway, full-body scanning platform that pairs up a high-fidelity, completely passive sensor array, with the PC-based software needed to execute extremely accurate threat object detection, actively discovering and alerting personnel to the presence of weapons like knives and guns, while eliminating false positives and filtering out every day personal items like coins, keys, jewelry, or belt buckles. Moreover, the system is completely safe for medical devices like pacemakers and yet the standard version of the unit weighs just 56 lbs (75 lbs total shipping weight), can be easily moved around for deployment at different entryways and even comes with an optional 4-hour battery backup capability that allows the system to be used almost anywhere. ViewScan can be set up in fifteen minutes using only a Phillips screwdriver, works with off the shelf computing systems and the company even makes a companion detector, the fully automatic and adjustable LAW Handheld Metal Detector, to help further ensure rapid screening throughput, minimal need for pat down inspections, and maximum operator safety.

A simplified yet powerful GUI (graphical user interface) for the company’s proprietary ViewScan software bundle allows even inexperienced operators to harness the rapid throughput capabilities this system can deliver. The ViewScan platform is designed to rapidly capture images (including those from optional additional cameras) and other important data, as well as print out such evidence, and the system seamlessly integrates with VSYM’s biometric fingerprint reader-enabled Positive ID Verification System as well. ViewScan presents users with an unmistakably simplified visual display indication of not only positive threat detection, but where on a person’s body the threat is located. The ViewScan even comes in a variety of formats, including a foldable Ultralite version so compact it can be checked on an airline flight, weighs only 23 lbs (45 lbs total shipping weight), and comes packed in its own SKB Corp. brand, high-quality molded polymer travel case.

The company’s Positive ID Verification System was specifically engineered to offer correctional, facilities, courthouses, office complexes, school sites and other secured locations the ability to quickly and accurately screen visitors and employees, and comes complete with an ID scanner and self-adhesive visitor badge with photo printer, in addition to the biometric fingerprint reader. Both of these systems are designed to document and record data, archiving images and logging processing activity information into a database that can be printed out as a daily or monthly report, complete with timestamps and relevant data on the individual, like name and ID or other identifying number(s). Similarly, the company’s first response remote video transmission system, Visual First Responder (VFR), a wearable video and infrared system designed to be carried on a belt or helmet and document or relay important video data, is capture-minded and allows users to fully document use, either for training purposes or subsequent legal action. Created to specifically address Law Enforcement, SWAT team, Fire Rescue team or HAZMAT team requirements, the rugged and compact body-worn camera with 5-mile transmitter based VFR platform, is ideal for handling a broad spectrum of roles. The VFR system feeds clear, steady, real-time and optionally encrypted video back to a viewing console, and can easily be mounted on even K-9 units.

The company recently announced that they are seeing continued traction and momentum build up in California, Michigan and Texas for their products, capitalizing on a sophisticated representative and dealer network that has been able to keep successfully landing new clients and installation contracts. ViewScan in particular is finding fast favor among clientele like event security organizers, educational institutions and law enforcement facilities, given the affordability and ease of implementation the system provides. The aggregate security industry is one of the fastest growing segments of the global economy over the last decade and with revenues currently in the neighborhood of $100 billion plus annually, there is considerable room for VSYM to grow on the strength of their revolutionary weapon detection systems and other ISR/SVM offerings.

Learn more about the company by visiting www.viewsystems.com

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In the first quarter of 2015, ENGlobal Corp. (NASDAQ: ENG) demonstrated its versatility, expertly navigating the recent downturn in energy commodity prices despite the market’s softness.

“We have pared the Company down to a smaller, more focused operation and reduced the risk profile of the projects we are undertaking, in addition to controlling overhead costs,” stated William Coskey, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ENGlobal. “These and other actions have allowed the Company to remain profitable, with positive cash flow during this downturn.”

ENGlobal’s Engineering and Construction group aided in these promising results, recording over 57 percent of the company’s total revenue for the quarter while receiving a gross profit margin of 15.5 percent by providing a host of engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) services. In recent years, the company’s global reputation for consistently designing and delivering complex midstream and downstream products has allowed ENGlobal to carve out sustainable market share within the industry. This strong growth and history of providing quality work has allowed the company to maintain a constant presence on Engineering News Record’s annual list of the Top 500 engineering design firms for more than a decade.

In addition to a world-class safety performance record, the company’s Engineering and Construction group has attained multiple alliance agreements with leading industry clients. ENGlobal’s comprehensive range of services, which includes everything from feasibility studies and conceptual design to turnkey project responsibility, should ensure that the company continues to improve its financial results alongside a recovering energy market.

“While there is always room for improvement, I believe we are in a strong financial position and poised for future growth,” stated Mark Hess, Chief Financial Officer of ENGlobal. “We ended the first quarter with a healthy cash balance and working capital of $24.4 million, and have no borrowings under our current credit facility.”

The company’s ability to remain profitable despite the continued softness of the energy sector is a testament to the quality of ENGlobal’s leadership team, and this leadership will remain imperative as market conditions make initial movements towards recovery. Moving forward, it appears likely that a continued focus on minimized overhead costs and low risk projects will be vital to the company’s financial success in the months to come. As gasoline prices continue to hover near their highest point since late in 2014, ENGlobal’s growth will likely depend on the sustained improvement of overall project activity in the energy sector.

For more information, visit www.englobal.com

Net Element, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETE) has made significant strides toward continued growth in the global payments market in recent months. In the first quarter of 2015, the company recorded $5.5 million in total revenue, which was a year-over-year increase of approximately 15 percent. Net Element’s efforts to improve its balance sheet in recent quarters have been equally impressive. Over the past five quarters, the company has reduced its outstanding debt from approximately $31 million at the end of 2013 to just over $4 million as of its latest financial filing. Moving forward, this fiscal flexibility should provide Net Element with an opportunity to maximize its overall market share across a collection of vital sectors.

“We’re pleased with our continued growth in revenues and reduced costs for the first quarter of 2015,” Oleg Firer, chief executive officer of Net Element, stated in a news release. “Going forward we will continue to focus on increased gross margins through acquisitions and providing additional, higher margin services such as Aptito.”

Aptito, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, provides complete business management solutions and cloud-based point of sale services to the hospitality sector. In 2014, the platform was awarded the silver medal at the Best in Biz Awards for its innovative approach to restaurant payments. Building on its early success, Net Element has continued to improve the platform in recent weeks. Earlier this month, the company announced the launch of an updated version of Aptito, integrating EMV chip technology and Apple Pay™ into its transactional processing platform.

“These upgrades provide a competitive edge to the product and should facilitate Aptito sales efforts and increase transactional revenue,” continued Firer. “By delivering these tools our goal is to help grow the business of our customers and assure greater transactional volume for Net Element.”

Net Element has also made strides toward growth through acquisition. Through the pending acquisition of PayOnline, Net Element addresses the growing market for mobile payment solutions. On Thursday, the company announced the addition of iOS compatibility to PayOnline’s proven mobile payments network. According to a study by the company, approximately 19 percent of online payments processed during the first quarter of 2015 were completed via mobile device, and, among those, 59 percent were completed using iOS, further demonstrating the massive growth potential for Net Element in the future.

Building on continued financial improvement and market share growth, Net Element is in a formidable position to strive for sustainable investor returns in the months to come.

For more information, visit www.netelement.com

SilverSun Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: SSNT) took a major step toward the future on Thursday through the unveiling of its new corporate website. The new site is designed to provide meaningful insight and perspective on the company’s growing business platform to shareholders, prospective investors and potential new business partners through a combination of intuitive navigation, video and user-friendly support resources.

“SilverSun has enjoyed remarkable growth over the past several years, with our diverse, yet complementary, product and service offerings expanding to meet the evolving business management needs of our valued customers,” Mark Meller, chairman and chief executive officer of SilverSun stated in a news release. “We felt the time had come to create a web presence that more accurately conveys our vision… and delivers our many stakeholders with a much more rich and engaging user experience.”

In recent months, the company has made significant progress in expanding its industry presence. In the first quarter of 2015, SilverSun built on its recent financial progress, posting an increase of over 31 percent in year-over-year revenue. Likewise, the company’s EBITDA was recorded at $669,923, an increase of 140 percent over the same period in 2014.

“[O]ur cash position, strong balance sheet, and ever increasing recurring revenue give us confidence that we will continue to achieve positive results throughout 2015,” concluded Meller.

In May, SilverSun set the stage for continued expansion through the announcement of an acquisition deal involving preeminent computer and network services provider ProductiveTech, Inc. Through this acquisition agreement, the company expects to add more than $1.7 million in annual revenue to its recent financial performance, as well as gaining a strategic foothold in the New Jersey managed service provider industry. According to the company’s news release, this acquisition is expected to be completed before the end of the current quarter.

Moving forward, SilverSun will continue to make preparations for its forecast uplisting to NASDAQ, which the company’s management team has named as its primary objective during 2015. When completed, SilverSun is expected to significantly increase its visibility with institutional investors and increase the attractiveness of its stock as a currency, improving the path for sustainable growth through acquisition in the years to come.

For prospective investors, SilverSun’s recent moves have put it in a strong position to realize improved returns in the future. Look for the company to leverage its newly acquired assets to promote continued growth within the expanding business technology solutions and services market.

For more information, visit www.silversuntech.com

Galenfeha has a prime focus on the petroleum industry. An engineering, manufacturing and product development company, Galenfeha concentrates on providing engineering services and alternative power generation products particularly to natural gas producers. Stored energy systems and chemical injection pumps are also included in the company’s offerings.

Since it was founded, the Texas-based corporation has focused on developing innovative products that decrease its customers’ energy production costs, from carbon footprints and hazardous waste to other non-sustainable aspects of producing energy.

Corporate Values
Galenfeha holds tightly to its mission to assist energy producers and users of traditional stored energy products in becoming more efficient, and it meets these goals by creating new products that perform better than current technology and reduce environmental impact.

The company is proud of the values that guide its business operations, especially with its management team continuing to uphold the highest levels of business ethics and personal integrity in various transactions and interactions.

Environment & Society
Galenfeha intends to provide contractual engineering services. It also means to develop and manufacture products to reduce for its customers the costs related with energy production.

Just recently, Galenfeha developed a new stored energy product with no heavy metal chemistry. This is a key initiative at the company: to develop more efficient ways to power products that require stored energy than what has historically been accomplished with traditional methods.

Research & Development
Through research and development, the company is discovering and developing different methods for producing energy more efficiently. By developing new tools for production, the company is also helping its clients meet new environmental demands.

When it comes to product development, engineering and manufacturing, the company employs incredible maneuverability. Innovation matters at Galenfeha.

For more information, visit www.galenfeha.com

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Visualant is a Seattle-based provider of chromatic-based identification and diagnostic solutions for which the company recently received an eighth patent. Leveraging its Spectral Pattern Matching™ (SPM) technology, Visualant is pioneering the use of structured light and validating its position as a photonics innovator.

While Visualant participates in the photonics sector with multi-billion dollar companies like IPG Photonics Corp. (NASDAQ:IPGP), the company enjoys minimal competition when it comes to product application in the public space. IPG Photonics’ business, for example, centers on the use of high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers for use primarily in materials processing. Another heavy-hitting photonics player is Coherent, Inc. (NASDAQ: COHN), which uses its photonics-based solutions for microelectronics, scientific research and government programs, original equipment manufacturer components and instrumentation, and materials processing markets.

Visualant has a different focus. Its patented, award-winning SPM technology works by directing structured light onto a substance or material, through a liquid or gas, or off a surface, to capture a unique ChromaID™. This ChromaID can be used to identify, detect, or diagnosis markers invisible to the human eye, enabling analyses that could only previously be performed by large and expensive lab-based tests.

ChromaID is so accurate that it can differentiate between Aspirin and generic-grade aspirin, different milk types, or even distinguish Stoli vodka vs. Smirnoff. This capability makes the technology applicable for a wide range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, paint, security, food safety, medical diagnostics, cosmetics and environmental, for a variety of uses that include authenticating pharmaceuticals, access cards, currency liquids and foods; diagnosing water purity, impurities in aviation jet fuel, soil composition; and a multitude of medical, environmental and agricultural diagnostics.

ChromaID also reads and records visible and invisible chromatic markers from virtually any material – profile scan stored in database. Discovery scans are stored in a database and matched to original to identify, authenticate or diagnose, such as for use in crime scene analysis, process control, law enforcement and homeland security, and the identification of substances.

As an example of practical application in food products, Visualant recently signed a one-year option agreement with Benemilk Ltd, a joint venture of Raisio plc and Intellectual Ventures (IV), under which Benemilk has the right to evaluate ChromaID for quality assurance or quality control tests performed in connection with the production of dairy products and to exclusively license such technology on a worldwide basis.

Visualant’s latest (eight) patent further validates the company’s intellectual property, company CEO and founder Ron Erickson recently stated in a news release, and solidifies Visualant’s patent portfolio as a continuation of the original series of patents filed by the company on the ChromaID technology beginning in 2007.

This patent covers the application of the ChromaID technology in the fields of manufacturing, process quality control, authentication of financial and identity documents, use with biological tissues related to diagnosis and security, as well as the deterioration of manufactured materials and monitoring of liquids, fuels and lubricants. It also protects methods for networking the functioning of the ChromaID technology for database building and access for comparing data acquired by one ChromaID device with those collected by other devices.

The company has several additional patents pending and said it plans to file new patents to extend the reach of its foundational ChromaID technology.

For more information, visit www.visualant.net

Star Mountain Resources is a precious metals mining company focused on the initiation, production and expansion of acquired mineral resources in the Star Mountain Mining District in Beaver County, Utah. The company’s primary project in the region, the Chopar Mine project, consists of 116 lode-mining claims and four metalliferous mineral lease sections located within a 2,320 acre area approximately five miles west of Milford, Utah. To date, SMRS’s exploration efforts have included geological analysis and a limited reverse circulation and core drilling program.

In January, SMRS took a major step toward making the Chopar project financially viable by retaining geological research and consulting company Mine Mappers, LLC. Through this partnership, the company will be able to more effectively evaluate prior exploration history and prepare a scope of work for a comprehensive exploration program to thoroughly evaluate the mineral potential of its holdings. In particular, the district’s high potential for large concentrations of skarn, which is a type of rock commonly associated with mineable accumulations of metallic ores, is an encouraging indication for SMRS moving forward.

“The presence of skarn mineralization in outcrop, in historic mines and in drill core and chips is encouraging,” Dr. Mark Osterberg, president and chief operating officer of SMRS, stated in a news release. “The extent of zones affected by contact metasomatism is potentially large enough to host ore bodies of size and grade to interest junior and major mining concerns.”

The Star Mountain Mining District, which is dotted with historic mines dating back to the late 1800s, has a long and storied history within the mining industry. Despite prior mining efforts, the company believes that the application of modern exploration tools will reveal additional resources that were previously unattainable. Leveraging the region’s mild climate and accessibility to nearby rail lines and roads, SMRS will look to translate this potential into sustainable returns in the years to come.

SMRS will utilize a discovery-based business model to grow its industry presence in the future. The company plans to thoroughly explore and initially develop its leasehold before seeking senior industry partners to assist in the capital-intensive development and operation phases. Building on this strategy, SMRS will also continue to seek quality projects that can be evaluated on their own technical and financial merit.

For prospective investors, the company’s continued exploration of its Chopar project could provide a strong platform to realize significant returns. Look for SMRS to continue to explore the geological environments of its leasehold in the coming months in an effort to determine the presence of potentially viable copper or gold deposits.

For more information, visit www.starmountainresources.com

DATATRAK International, Inc. (OTCQX: DTRK) is a worldwide technology services company delivering unified eClinical® solutions and related services designed to safely accelerate every drug, biologic and device from concept to cure. The company’s proprietary DATATRAK ONE® Unified Experience™ platform provides users with an all-in one clinical enterprise solution complete with all of the necessary components to effectively design, deliver and manage clinical trials. DATATRAK’s groundbreaking software solution currently supports preclinical through phase IV drug and device studies in multiple languages around the world.

Earlier this month, DATATRAK built on its industry-leading software suite through the introduction of UX CTMS 360™. Using this revolutionary startup solution, clinical trials can be initiated at the click of a button without the need for programming expertise. By effectively eliminating the risks and time required to integrate data across multiple systems, the company’s clinical trial management system provides clients with an immediate return on investment.

“The industry has struggled long enough with data silos and expensive third party consulting fees,” Laurence P. Birch, chairman and chief executive officer of DATATRAK, stated in a news release. “With the introduction of UX CTMS 360, we strip away that complexity and expense… [providing] an immediate view of all clinical and operational data across studies.”

In recent months, DATATRAK has made significant progress toward expanding its market share in the life sciences market. In the first quarter of 2015, the company recorded a 35 percent year-over-year increase in new contract sales as a result of continued investment in sales and marketing efforts. This increase in contract sales resulted in a backlog of $27.8 million, an increase of 7 percent over the end of 2014. In April, the company laid the groundwork for continued improvement in the future by opening its Chicago office, expanding its physical presence in one of the country’s leading life sciences markets.

“The success we’re seeing in new contract sales is a positive for the business overall,” continued Birch. “New clients often become our most dedicated partners, setting the stage for future revenue growth.”

For more information, visit www.datatrak.com