SUWANEE, Ga.— Entec Systems, based here, provides fire and life safety protection to a wide range of customers, but a lot of its work recently has been coming from two verticals, one of them new.

Entec Engineered Resins has stayed busy in the early part of 2003 by acquiring a smaller distributor in California and completing a 30,000-square-foot expansion of its compounding plant in ...