Following six months cultivating a supplier relationship with W.W. Grainger, SentryLight's innovative products launched this past week on the W.W. Grainger website (www.Grainger.com). SentryLight opened its Research & Development offices in the Tech Garden just eight months ago.

Invented by a firefighter Brian Corbett to save lives, SentryLight's concealed emergency lighting products offer the world's first emergency lights designed for installation below the smoke, providing critical time for building occupants to exit during an emergency.

With 2007 sales of $6.4 billion, Grainger helps building managers save time and money by providing them the right products to keep their facilities up and running. With more than 600 branches, their customers are 1.8 million businesses and institutions in 150 countries.

Heading up business development efforts for SentryLight, Michael Lilien approached Grainger back in the summer of 2008: "Their reactions to our designs were immediate. As a distributor of emergency lighting products, their reaction echoed what architects and engineers tell us all of the time. 'Why didn't someone think of this before.'?"

SentryLight's current product line is protected by patents encompassing 22 claims. With new patents filed recently to expand the product line, efforts at The Tech Garden are destined to continue the company's growth into the future.

After being away from Syracuse for 30 years leading international marketing efforts for Fortune 50 companies, SentryLight's Chief Marketing Officer, Adam Lilien, located the company's Research & Development offices in Syracuse to take advantage of the diverse resources of The Tech Garden combined with the intellectual talent in Central New York. Mr. Lilien explains: "My parents were physicians, researchers and educators at three of the area's hospitals. The wealth of scientific knowledge here, combined with Syracuse University, ESF and the military research facilities makes Central New York one of the greatest R&D secrets in the U.S., if not the world. Add to that the natural resources for fishing in the summer and skiing in the winter, and a solid real estate market, Syracuse is a great place to grow a business." Case in point: native Syracusan Yong Zhang recently joined the team to head up operations and business development in Asia.