Altex Technologies

Altex is a privately held corporation, organized in the State of California, and located in the heart of Silicon Valley, just south of San Francisco. The company was founded in 1985, to pursue the development of novel fuels processing, combustion, thermal management and power systems technologies, including fuel cells, gas turbines, biomass conversion, burners and heat exchanger components and systems. The early focus of the company was on the research and understanding of fuels and combustion processes. This work was accomplished in cooperation with academic and government research laboratory personnel at Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore. During the mid 90s, the company focused on the transition of fundamental knowledge to benefit power, energy and environmental products.