An open house to introduce the company to regional business, media and technology leaders is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 10 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the new offices, 4225 Lake Park Blvd., Suite 200, in West Valley City. The office phone is (801) 955-9800.

The new Salt Lake City operations will allow the Columbus, Ohio-based Battelle to work closely with the private industry, academic and government sectors in the region. Ray Bills, a Utah native, is managing the office and says he wants to broadly market Battelle's wide variety of technology skills in the Utah business arena.

"Battelle has had a presence in Utah for many years with an emphasis toward supporting the Department of Defense on a variety of projects here," Bills said. "However, our focus, in addition to military work, will be to build opportunities for technology partnerships with a broad range of clients capitalizing on Battelle's experience in many different fields."

Members of the news media are welcomed to attend the open house and are asked to contact Battelle's Media Relations Manager, Katy Delaney at (614) 424-5544 prior to the event. Ernie Shannon, (614) 424-7174, with handle media questions at the event.

Battelle is a global leader in technology development and technology commercialization. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Battelle has annual revenues of $1 billion and has operations at more than 70 locations and clients in 30 countries. Battelle counts as its successes the development of the office copier machine (Xerox), pioneering work on the compact disc, new technology for telecommunications and medical product breakthroughs. To learn more, visit www.battelle.org.