Corporate Report: April 30 - May 5

Sunovia Energy Technologies plans to expand facility, staff
Sarasota-based light-emitting diode (LED) company Sunovia Energy Technologies Inc. plans to triple the size of its facility and add 68 employees over the next three years after relocating to Sarasota County.

The company, currently with 20 employees, recently moved from a 5,500-square-foot facility in South Manatee County to an 18,000-square- foot location at the Centennial Commerce Center at Cattlemen and Fruitville roads. According to CEO Carl Smith, it needed a larger facility and to be closer to I-75.

Sunovia's EvoLucia Lighting division currently produces environmentally friendly LED lighting solutions for municipalities, universities and businesses. It plans to introduce “an extremely cost- and energy-efficient” scalable, solar cell system in 2011.