It's Baton Rouge: Out To Lunch

In 2000, an LSU engineering professor named Kevin Kelly got an idea to build compact, efficient heat exchangers that would help engines perform better. Today, Mezzo is one of the leading companies in the country in the area of micro tube heat exchanger technology, and the company s products are used in dozens of applications and across industries from aerospace to oil and gas to, believe it or not, high performance auto racing. It s not the kind of technology you think of when you think of Louisiana, which is what makes the story of Mezzo such a great one. On this edition of Out to Lunch Mezzo co founder and company President Kevin Kelly tells host Stephanie Riegel about the growth of Mezzo and the market for its products. Mezzo got its start in the Bon Carre business incubator more than a decade ago. Another impressive Baton Rouge tech company that also started out in an incubator the LSU business and technology center is CAP Technologies. The company is providing an invaluable service to big industry and to