In Simi Valley, California, workers venting a 10,000 gallon underground fuel tank caused a leak at the city’s Public Works Fueling Station that threatened the Arroyo Simi, the principal aquifer for the area.  Eventually,

WRI Contgratulates its 25th Anniversary Employees In 2009, WRI recognizes three employees, Mike Harnsberger, John Schabron, and Janet Wolf, for passing the 25 year mark with the Institute. Western Research Institute was established in 1983,

China Hosts a Major Asphalt Materials Conference Modeled on the Petersen Conference With the National Expressway Network Plan in the works, the Chinese government will add 52,000 miles of expressway connecting all the provincial

Why We Relay... Relay For Life is the American Cancer Society’s signature activity and WRI’s top community event.  WRI participated in the first Relay for Life in Albany County, Wyoming, in 1997 and has assembled a

Petersen Conference Bids Farewell to Longtime Chairman This year, the Petersen Asphalt Research Conference organized by Western Research Institute bids a farewell to Dr. Raymond Robertson.  Dr. Robertson first chaired the conference in 1990, the year Dr. Claine Petersen retired and the conference w

WRI Serves as a National Demonstration Site for Innovative Business Partnership Western Research Institute is the subject of an innovative business partnership to demonstrate how technology developers, including universities, can find new markets for their

WRI will be introducing a patented new packaging system that keeps shipments cold or frozen for more than 70 hours without refrigeration, ice, or dry ice at the International PDMA Conference November 2-4 in Anaheim, California.

Vijay Sethi Named WRI Senior Vice President WRI Chief Executive Officer Don Collins has announced that Dr. Vijay Sethi has been promoted to senior vice president of Western Research Institute.  Dr. Sethi had been the

Chief Executive Officer Don Collins and eight members of WRI’s Transportation Technology Business Unit will join approximately 10,000 policy makers, administrators, researchers, and government and industry representatives at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation

Western Research Institute News - River Basin Successfully Produces Torrefied BioMass at Pilot Unit in Laramie  LARAMIE, Wyoming, May 19 ¬ River Basin Energy, Inc., announced it has successfully produced torrefied biomass at its Laramie, Wyoming, pilot facility. With U.S. Department of Energy support provided through the National Energy Technology

DOE Selects WRI’s Innovative Hydrogen from Coal Separation Process The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Western Research Institute (WRI) and its commercial partners, Chart Energy and Chemicals of La Crosse, Wis., and Synkera Technologies