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MEP Success Stories from Minnesota

Peer Council Assists in Overcoming Leadership Challenges

Reported Year
2025
Dan Ortloff had been serving as General Manager and Chief Financial Officer of Falls Fabricating when the company's president unexpectedly passed away. With the sudden loss of the previous president, Dan found himself in a leadership role without a mentor and had to quickly learn the ropes. He had previous experience working with Enterprise

Website Improvements Boost Sales and Jobs

Reported Year
2025
The owners of ZTECH Precision knew that to keep growing, they needed to enhance their online presence. Their website was outdated and failed to showcase the high quality and full range of capabilities ZTECH offered to the market. Being busy owners, they didn’t have time for a website redesign and build project and understood they needed trusted

Worth the Investment

Reported Year
2024
Excelsior Tool had a desire to smooth out the vagaries and ups and downs in their customer demand, which was very hard to predict. The leadership team wanted to become ISO 9001:2015 certified in part to help better understand their key customers and processes and create a more consistent workload. They also saw ISO certification as an important

An Eye to the Future

Reported Year
2024
When Ultra Durable Technologies launched in 2008, they contracted out their product manufacturing, focusing instead on sales and distribution. In 2021, the Ultra Durable leadership purchased a building with the intention of bringing all manufacturing of their product in-house. As part of the transition to manufacturing, they sought support for

A Leadership Development Roadmap

Reported Year
2024
As part of their strategic business planning, Blow Molded Specialties identified that one of their key risks to growth and profitability is the availability of workers. In their area of the state, it is a challenge to hire for open positions and BMS leadership understands how important it is to have enough of the right people in the right positions

Bringing in an Outside View

Reported Year
2024
Pride Solutions experienced significant revenue growth in just a few short years. This business success caused production bottlenecks and storage challenges, so the leadership team decided that they needed more square footage to keep growing. Through a new buildout on their existing property, Pride wanted to increase throughput and inventory

An Eye-Opening Experience

Reported Year
2023
Several years ago, President Joe Plunger recognized the need to incorporate more colleagues into the business planning process and to help prepare organizational leadership successors. Those future leaders determined the business had a strategy, but it was mostly in Joe’s head, and everyone wanted to get that vision out and bring the organization

Fantastic Plastic

Reported Year
2023
Federal Package continually looks for ways to make their plastic container offering environmentally friendly for their clients. Finding options for recycled resins to solve for reduction of virgin use while remaining recyclable as well as options for being biodegradable was a challenge. They finally found their solution with an organic additive

Half as Many Touches

Reported Year
2022
As B&D Rollers made its pivot from printing rollers to industrial and agricultural rollers, Dan Ostrander was facing strong competition for skilled workers and made a strategic decision to automate his processes when possible and invest in the skills and equipment of his workers. Today, B&D Rollers employs eight staff, but each worker operates 1-3

Capturing New Markets

Reported Year
2022
Galaxy Precision has built a strong reputation with its customers and maintains a history of quality products and attention to detail. Business was going well, and they were growing, but as they sought new customers, the leadership team found that being ISO 9001:2015 certified gave Galaxy Precision more opportunities at new projects and customers
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