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With about 140,000 Coloradans working in manufacturing, there’s a lot to celebrate. On March 3, machinists, and welders, engineers and designers, sewers, painters, brewers, butchers and more, gathered for the 4th annual Made in Colorado manufacturer’s forum and awards program.
This year, ColoradoBiz focused on celebrating the human stories behind the skills and physical objects. With abilities to craft and create with such high precision, the makers in attendance and highlighted inside the pages of the magazine deem their work more than just a job, but rather a personality, a lifestyle, a calling.
Since offshoring accelerated in the 1990s, there’s been a growing disconnect between the education required and the necessary skills for these jobs. Such talent is in high demand in Colorado and beyond, and there’s an active push to close the gap.
That's why Made in Colorado exists – the business-to-business connections, the sharing of stories and commitments to products and processes. Putting that all under one roof for a collection of conversations is the way for ColoradoBiz to move the needle toward progress for the sector as a whole.
The day opened with a luncheon and B2B lounge where manufacturers were exclusively invited to talk about technology and software solutions within the industry.
To kickoff the afternoon program, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock spoke of the strength of the manufacturing sector in Colorado’s capital and beyond and pointed to companies the city’s population takes great pride in Thereafter, five Made in Colorado award categories were identified and one winner from each was selected:
Most Innovative Manufacturer
| 300 Days of Shine |
| 34 Degrees |
| Acme Neon |
| Action Publishing |
| AdamWorks |
| Advanced Circuits |
| AIA Industries |
| Airius |
| Alchemy Bicycle Co. |
| Aleph Objects |
| All American Seasonings |
| AlloSource |
| Alpen High Performance Products |
| Apogee Scientific Inc. |
| Ardent Mills |
| Arrow Sheet Metal |
| Atlas Pacific Engineering |
| Aurora Organic Dairy |
| Avago Technologies |
| Avalon Acoustics |
| Avery Brewing |
| Azure Furniture Co. |
| Ball Aerospace |
| Bear Creek Distillery |
| Bennett Forgeworks |
| Bhakti Chai |
| Big B's |
| Big Chill |
| Billings Artworks |
| Birdon America |
| Bison Innovative Products |
| Bloomin |
| Bobo's Oat Bars |
| Bold Lead Designs |
| Bonnies Balms Inc. |
| Borealis Fat Bikes |
| Boulder Amplifiers |
| Boulder Clean |
| Boulder Granola |
| Boulder Organic Foods |
| Brayden Automation Corp. |
| Breckenridge Brewery |
| Breckenridge Distillery |
| Brekhus Tile & Stone |
| Canino's Sausage Co. Inc. |
| Carlson Vineyards |
| Caroba Plastics |
| CEA |
| Celestial Seasonings |
| Circle Graphics |
| Clear Intentions |
| Climax Jerky |
| Codi Manufacturing Inc. |
| Colorado Aromatics |
| Colorado Automation and Design Inc |
| Colorado Cider Co. |
| Colorado Cylinder Stoves |
| Colorado Hardscapes |
| Colorado Malting Co. |
| Colorado Plastics |
| Columbine Label Co. |
| Community Power Corporation |
| ConcealFab Corp. |
| Confluence Energy |
| Connor Wood Bicycles LLC |
| Continental Sausage |
| Corvus Coffee |
| Coyote Gold Margaritas |
| Crescent Moon Snowshoes |
| Curt Mangan Guitar Strings |
| DadGear |
| Danny Cash Unlimited |
| David Rasmussen Designs |
| DaVinci Sign Systems Inc. |
| Decadence Gourmet |
| Deerhammer Distilling Co. |
| DeLine Box Co. |
| Denver Beer Co. |
| Denver Machine Shop |
| Denver Tent Co. |
| Display Devices |
| Distortions Unlimited |
| Diversified Machine Systems |
| Donek Snowboards Inc. |
| dPix |
| Dry Dock Brewing |
| Eagle Claw |
| Earthroamer |
| Ed Dwight / foundry |
| Eddyline Brewing |
| Ela Family Farms |
| Eldon James |
| Eldorado Climbing Walls |
| Elevation Beer Co. |
| Entegris |
| Epocs Manufacturing Inc. |
| Feisty Spirits |
| fiberlok |
| Finishing Professionals LLC |
| Fire Within |
| Frame Your Story |
| Freeride |
| Freeride Systems/Fulsus |
| FridgeWize |
| Fusion Specialties |
| Gamma 2 Robotics |
| Geotech |
| Grateful Bread |
| Great Divide Brewing |
| Hach Co. |
| Hacienda Maize |
| Hammond's Candies |
| Helliemae's |
| Henry Bergeson Kaleidoscopes |
| High Performance Engineering |
| Honey House Distillery |
| I P Automation |
| Ice-O-Matic (ALI Group) |
| Ink Monstr |
| Innovative Water Technologies |
| Intertech Plastics |
| Intrex Aerospace |
| ISH Limited |
| Jackson's Honest Potato Chips |
| Janska LLC |
| Jeff Rowland Design Group |
| jeffreezz |
| JK Concepts |
| Johnson & Held |
| Kannah Creek Brewing Co. |
| Knotty Tie Co. |
| Kuni Furniture |
| Laws Whiskey House |
| Lemongrass Spa Products |
| Lenz Sport |
| Leprino Foods |
| Leptron Systems |
| Lifeloc Technologies |
| Little Colorado Inc. |
| Lockheed Martin Space Systems |
| Luna Gourmet Coffee & Tea Co. |
| Mary's Medicinals |
| Maxey Trailers |
| Meier Skis |
| Melanzana Mountain Gear |
| Merritt |
| Micro Metals |
| Mile High Orthotics Lab |
| Milstein's Pure |
| Modular Robotics |
| Molson Coors |
| Montanya Rum |
| Moots |
| MouCo Cheese Co. |
| Mount Sopris Instrument Co. |
| Mountain Racing Products |
| Mountainside Medical |
| Mullen Guitars |
| Munro Companies |
| NamJet |
| Natural Food Works |
| Never Summer Industries |
| New Belgium Brewing |
| NFT |
| Odell Brewing |
| Oliver Manufacturing |
| OME Banjos |
| Omerica Organic |
| OZ Snowboards |
| Paleo Meals to Go |
| Panasonic |
| Paradox Beer Co. |
| Peach Street Distillers |
| pewag chain |
| Pewag Traction Chain |
| Pikes Peak Brewing Co. |
| Phunkshun Wear |
| Playtime LLC |
| Prescient |
| Primeflex |
| Primus Metals |
| Pure Cultures |
| PureVision Technology |
| Rainbow Plastics |
| Raquelita's Tortillas |
| RavenBrick |
| Reata Engineering |
| Redstone Meadery |
| REO |
| Reynolds Polymer |
| Ross Reels |
| RPC Manufacturing Solutions |
| Rubadue Wire |
| S&H Products |
| Savante Wine Cellars |
| Schacht Spindle Co. Inc |
| Schlosser Signs Inc. |
| ScottyBob Skis |
| Shotcrete |
| Sierra Nevada Corp. Space Systems |
| Sigma Metals |
| Ska Brewing Co. |
| SOM Footwear |
| SoundTraxx |
| SparkFun |
| Spirit Hound Distillers |
| Stacy Machine & Tooling Inc. |
| Steelhead Composites |
| Sticker Giant |
| Sundolier |
| Sutcliffe Vineyards |
| Sweet & Saucy |
| TALON Grips |
| Talon Wine Brands |
| Telluride Brewing Co. |
| Tender Belly |
| Terry Ludwig Pastels LLC |
| TerumoBCT |
| The Dough Source |
| The Real Dill |
| The Whole Works |
| Titan Robotics Ltd |
| Tonix |
| Topo Designs |
| Tribologix |
| Trine Aerospace & Defense |
| Trumark |
| Tuff Shed |
| Unique Natural Products |
| Universal Plastics Inc. |
| UpSki |
| Value Plastics |
| VAIREX air systems |
| Vestas |
| Wadsworth Controls |
| Wagner Custom Skis |
| Walker Manufacturing |
| Wana Brands |
| Westone |
| What we Love the winery |
| Wild Goose Canning |
| Wild Zora |
| Winter Session |
| Wisdom Rides |
| Wolf Robotics |
| Women's Bean Project |
| Wood's High Mountain Distillery |
| Woodward |
| Wren Industries |
| Zeon Corp. |
| Zometool |
| Zybek Advenced Products |