April 15, 2009
RJLG Meets with Congressman Tim Murphy, Representative for the 18th District of Pennsylvania to U.S. House of Representatives
Congressman Tim Murphy visited RJ Lee Group, Inc. (RJLG)
headquarters in Monroeville, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, April 15,
for a tour of the laboratories, a chili cook-off, and a discussion
of the company's current initiatives and his priorities in
Congress. The Congressman was wrapping up his Spring District
Work Period by spending time with businesses located in his
district. Dr. Richard J. Lee, President of RJLG, along with
several other company representatives, congressional staffers, and
representatives from the Pittsburgh Technology Council, held a
wide-ranging discussion with the Congressman that touched on
several of RJLG's developing initiatives and on the Congressman's
top priorities: they discussed healthcare, clean energy production,
resource recovery, infrastructure, consumer product safety,
nanotechnology, and education.
RJLG's Delta-Energy waste tire resource recovery project was
discussed at great length as the process produces a number of
high-value products including fuels and emission control agents for
use in coal fired power plants. The Congressman compared
Pittsburgh to the Cape Canaveral of the energy technology movement
because of its natural resources and the strong history the region
has in the energy industry.
They also discussed RJLG's work on sustainable infrastructure
modeling, which accurately predicts corrosion and degradation of
bridges, roadways, and other concrete structures based on the
particular composition of the building materials used and specific
chemical conditions.
During the discussion on healthcare, Dr. Lee presented the
company's service lines relating to USP 797 compliance, monitoring
healthcare facilities for hazardous drug contamination, and
hospital construction oversight. The Congressman discussed
his concern over the growing cost of healthcare and the lack of
support for chronic conditions.
While discussing education and the importance of reestablishing
technology development and high technology manufacturing in the
United States, Dr. Lee touched on RJLEducation's current programs
whose aim is to attract more students to the fields of scientific
research. The programs currently provide web-based microscope
simulators to a few public schools in Southeastern Pennsylvania
which are enrolled in their RJLEducation's pilot
program. RJLEducation hopes to expand its offerings to
incorporate mobile laboratories and personal scanning electron
microscopes for students K-12 and at community colleges and
universities. The microscopes and laboratories would be
manufactured in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
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