{"id":14669,"date":"2025-01-09T17:58:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T18:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=14669"},"modified":"2025-01-09T20:16:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:16:29","slug":"wisconsin-manufacturer-of-the-year-finalists-announced-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=14669","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Manufacturer of the Year Finalists Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wisconsin-manufacturer-of-the-year-finalists-announced-2\/\">https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wisconsin-manufacturer-of-the-year-finalists-announced-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MADISON<\/strong> \u2013 Nearly two dozen Wisconsin manufacturers have been selected as finalists for the 36th Annual Manufacturer of the Year (MOTY) Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The MOTY program, sponsored by Baker Tilly, Michael Best &amp; Fredrich LLP, and Wisconsin Manufacturers &amp; Commerce (WMC), recognizes the state\u2019s top manufacturers of all sectors and sizes for innovations, philanthropy, technological advances, commitment to customer satisfaction and the quality jobs they create.<\/p>\n<p>The program highlights manufacturing as the state\u2019s top industry, employing 1 in 6 Wisconsin workers and producing nearly $72 billion in economic output each year. The finalists represent the diversity and power of Wisconsin\u2019s manufacturing industry and its wide-reaching impact.<\/p>\n<p>A total of four Grand Award winners will be selected \u2013 one for each size category (Small, Medium, Large, Mega). The judges may also decide to honor a company with a Special Award for excelling in an outstanding area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>The 36th Annual Manufacturer of the Year Award finalists:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Small Category (1-99 employees)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>JR Machine LLC<\/li>\n<li>Lemke Industrial Machine LLE<\/li>\n<li>Omnia Wood Products LLC (Smokey Woods<\/li>\n<li>Pindel Global Precision<\/li>\n<li>Saco Foods, LLC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Medium Category (100-249 employees)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>EK Machine Co., Inc.<\/li>\n<li>N.E.W. Plastics Corp.<\/li>\n<li>Plas-Tech Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Radius Packaging<\/li>\n<li>Redline Plastics, LLC<\/li>\n<li>Winsert, LLC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Large Category (250-499 employees)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Custom Fabricating &amp; Repair Inc.<\/li>\n<li>Gamber-Johnson<\/li>\n<li>Inland Label and Marketing Services LLC<\/li>\n<li>Weinbrenner Shoe Company<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mega Category (500+ employees)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ANGI Energy Systems LLC<\/li>\n<li>Crystal Finishing<\/li>\n<li>Essity Professional Hygiene North America LLC<\/li>\n<li>Lawton Standard Co.<\/li>\n<li>Plexus Corp.<\/li>\n<li>VARC, Inc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Baker Tilly, Michael Best &amp; Friedrich LLP and Wisconsin Manufacturers &amp; Commerce partner each year to host the annual MOTY awards program. These partners will celebrate the finalists and reveal the winners at a black tie awards program on Feb. 20 at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee. Additional information can be found online at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wimoty.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.wimoty.com<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wisconsin-manufacturer-of-the-year-finalists-announced-2\/\">Wisconsin Manufacturer of the Year Finalists Announced<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\">WMC Wisconsin&#8217;s Chamber <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wisconsin-manufacturer-of-the-year-finalists-announced-2\/ MADISON \u2013 Nearly two dozen Wisconsin manufacturers have been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14670,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14669\/revisions\/14670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}