Micromedical firm wins Minnesota Manufacturer of the Year prize

Intricon, a micromedical technology company that makes interventional, implantable, and body-worn medical devices, has been named a 2022 Minnesota Manufacturer of the Year by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. 

The Minnesota Manufacturing Awards program recognises manufacturing companies that drive the region's economy.

The Manufacturer of the Year award honours manufacturing excellence at private or public companies in various categories. Intricon won the award for large companies with more than 250 employees.

Business journalists from the Journal evaluated hundreds of companies, using the following criteria to select the winners: Excellent financial performance, effective business strategy, innovative approaches to internal operations, corporate training and manufacturing processes, job creation and retention, and sustainable business practices.

Intricon’s qualifications for earning the recognition included its global leadership in medical device manufacturing for products that enhance and save lives. Other highlights of its nomination included:

• Intricon’s recent Honour Roll recognition for gender diversity of executives and board members in the latest Minnesota Census of Women in Corporate Leadership 
• Winning the Medtronic Supplier Excellence Award -- one of 10 companies among 44,000+ suppliers 
• 2021 record sales and revenue, despite the pandemic, supply chain challenges, and tight labour market

“The award is timely, given we are celebrating Intricon’s 45^th anniversary this year,” said Scott Longval, CEO.

Intricon was started in a vacant auto body shop by engineer and board member Mark Gorder. Mark and three co-founders developed the commercial application of electron scattering at the subatomic level of matter and have greatly expanded the application of microelectronics and mircotechnologies in the medical device industry. Today, annual revenue exceeds $125 million with more than 800 employees across three offices and six manufacturing sites – from Arden Hills, California, Singapore, and Indonesia.