Welcome New Investor-Members

BendTec, a 90+-year-old business, has been working to meet the power, mining, pipeline and structural industry needs. The company offers pipe fabrication and large dimension steel bending services along with welding, large component machining, blasting, heat-treating, stainless steel pickling and more. While located in Duluth, BendTec is recognized for their services all around the world.

Burns & McDonnell is an employee-owned firm that specializes in engineering, architecture, construction, and environmental and consulting solutions. The company goal, regardless of location, is to make their clients successful. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, with a location in Duluth, Burns & McDonnell is over 100 years old. In 2015, the company received Fortune Magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For Nationwide award, being their fourth consecutive year to receive that award.

IKONICS Corporation, an image technology developer, has offered products and process solutions for an array of imaging markets for more than 60 years. Typically, their strengths have been in photochemistry and coated films and their fundamental business is creation and transfer of physical and visual images. IKONICS Corporation’s outputs range from high-tech screen-printing to decorative and industrial etching and imaging. Headquartered in Duluth, the company offers services in 90 different countries.

For more than 80 years, Minnesota Energy Resources has been delivering natural gas to communities all across Minnesota. Today they serve 231,000 customers located in 52 counties in Minnesota. The company cares about keeping their customers safe and satisfied by being a reliable, urgent, and responsible business. The company also has a strong internal focus to ensure employees are satisfied, valued, and healthy.

Founded in 1995, WSB & Associates Inc. is a consulting and design firm offering engineering, planning, environmental and construction services to clients in the government, energy and commercial markets. The company currently has eight locations in Minnesota and North Dakota. Today, the company offers more than 20 different services including architecture, information systems, energy, structures, surveying and more. 

If you know of an organization that would be interested in APEX membership, please contact Brian Hanson at brian@apexgetsbusiness.com or 218-740-3667.