Success for young team, emerging tech

CEO (OR EQUIVALENT):Andrew Coutu, CEO;Justin Coutu, president2014 REVENUE: $4.7 million2012 REVENUE: $2 millionREVENUE GROWTH: 141%
CEO (OR EQUIVALENT):Andrew Coutu, CEO;Justin Coutu, president2014 REVENUE: $4.7 million2012 REVENUE: $2 millionREVENUE GROWTH: 141%

Justin Coutu, president of R&D Technologies Inc., believes it’s important to help Rhode Island’s college students stay and work here after graduation. As such, he has hired several students from local colleges and universities to join the 3-D printing firm.

“You can’t have a good economy if we’re losing people to a better job environment elsewhere,” Coutu said. “We’re always building a young team, which is great, because they are … full of ideas.”

With a product line that is still growing in popularity and possibilities for use in a variety of industries, including the medical field – for things such as prototypes of brains before surgery, for instance – the company is focused on its mission to help regrow manufacturing in Rhode Island after what he says were too many years of overseas outsourcing and job losses.

“I think we all can agree that needed to change, and 3-D printing became part of that,” Coutu said.

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Coutu attributed his company’s continued growth to a “loyal team, great clientele, a good, solid strategy and outstanding service.

“Also, the product line is really good,” he said. “We are helping the quality of life in so many ways, it’s amazing.” •

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