Proto Labs Named Manufacturer of the Year

Maple Plain, Minnesota – Proto Labs Inc., a digital manufacturing company, was named Manufacturer of the Year, Small Enterprise, at the 2015 Manufacturing Leadership Awards ceremony held recently in Carlsbad, California. The 11th-annual event – produced by corporate growth consulting firm Frost & Sullivan and its Manufacturing Leadership Council – celebrates industry leaders and companies that are pushing global manufacturing forward.

Alongside Proto Labs, Dow Chemical received top honors as Manufacturer of the Year, Large Enterprise; Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, General Electric, and The Campbell Soup Company were among other notable award winners. Large and Small Enterprise categories for Manufacturer of the Year were determined by companies with annual revenues of over and under $1 billion, respectively.

“The Manufacturing Leadership Awards are a broad representation of industry excellence as evident by the impressive field of honorees,” says Vicki Holt, president and CEO at Proto Labs. “We’re humbled to be included with such innovative forces within manufacturing, and graciously accept our award.”

Proto Labs’ Cool Idea! Award program, which provides gratis prototyping and low-volume production services to entrepreneurs bringing inventive products to market, was also recognized for Innovation Process Leadership during the ceremony on June 4.

“The award is further validation that our automated approach to Internet-based modern manufacturing – one that blends high-tech software with high-speed equipment – is positively impacting our advancing industry,” explains Rob Bodor, Proto Labs’ vice president and general manager of the Americas.

A complete list of winners can be found on Frost & Sullivan’s Manufacturing Leadership Awards page at http://mlawards.gilcommunity.com/winners/2015-winners.

Source: Proto Labs