by Debbi Gardiner McCullough
CEO Lynn Paige strolls down her factory floor and smiles. While the rest of the economy is in turmoil, her Phoenix, AZ-based solar technology company, Perfect Power Inc., thrives. Annual sales of its leading products such as solar cells are steady and growing from $650,000 six years ago to $6.4 million last year and a projected $9 million in sales for 2009. The company is hiring, not firing, and next month moves to a bigger facility. Paige says it was projecting product demand that helped. “Because few anticipated the green building boom, many ran out of merchandise,” she says. “We had enough and now we can’t keep up.”
