MCSB Michigan 50 Companies to Watch award winner, Ultimation Industries, LLC
In a lead-up to the 2022 Michigan Celebrates Small Business Gala Celebration Jeffrey Mosher spoke with several winning companies from this cycle. This year’s gala will take place at the Breslin Center in East Lansing, MI, on May 3rd! Please visit michigancelebrates.org/
Here, Jeffrey Mosher speaks with Kali Crescent, E-Commerce Business Unit Manager, Ultimation Industries LLC, Roseville, MI, a Michigan 50 Companies to Watch award winner for 2022.
To listen to their full interview please click on the embedded SoundCloud PodCast shared below!
About Ultimation Industries, LLC
CONVEYOR TECHNOLOGIES AND AUTOMATION
Ultimation Industries LLC has been a leader in the conveyor technologies and automation business for nearly 30 years and has grown to become one of the major conveyor manufacturers in the USA. The core of the company’s capability is built around conveyor technologies and automation systems. Ultimation was founded in 1988, and the company has a long and successful history of servicing customers in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Ultimation’s executive leadership team are conveyor technologies experts. We have decades of experience designing and building assembly line equipment that never stops working. Click on these links for more information on our different products:
- Conveyors – learn more about what types of conveyors to use for different applications
- Automation equipment
- Specialty machines for tire and wheel mounting and inflation
- Online sales of conveyors and conveyor parts
COMPANY HISTORY AND KEY EVENTS
- Our first tire processing line supplied in 1990 for Volvo
- Exports began to Nissan in Mexico in 1992, followed by Goodyear (Europe)
- Expanded relationship with GM as preferred supplier – 1998
- Added extension and additional floor space to Roseville, MI facility in 2000
- Acquired in 2011 by Jacqueline Canny, name changed to Ultimation Industries LLC; WBENC certified as women-owned business
- Entered into strategic alliance with Daifuku Webb and expansion to South America in 2012 with major Ford Motor Company contract for overhead conveyor systems
- Diversification to military business with supply of conveyor system to US Navy – 2013
- Recognized in 2013 by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder as one of Michigan’s fastest-growing exporters
- Acquired larger facilities and expanded in Roseville, Michigan in 2015
- Expanded light duty conveyor systems range and commenced online “quick ship” e-commerce sales in 2016
- Diversification into indoor vertical farming overhead conveyors and food safe grade systems – 2018
- Expanded with additional nearby Roseville facility space – 2019
- Recognized as one of Metro Detroit’s “Best and Brightest” Places to Work and Finalist for Amazon Small Business of the Year (women-owned) – 2019
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About Michigan Celebrates Small Businesses
Michigan Celebrates Small Businesses is a non-profit (501c3) organization that is composed of statewide founding organizations that provide small businesses with resources to help their company grow. MCSB has Since 2005, their awards gala has celebrated and honored the impact small businesses have on our communities and state. MCSB makes small businesses their priority and will continue to support, connect, and celebrate small businesses in Michigan.
Michigan Celebrates Small Business is a partnership of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, Edward Lowe Foundation, Small Business Association of Michigan, U.S. Small Business Administration, Michigan Business Network, and the Michigan Small Business Development Center.
Kinexus Group is the Managing Partner of the 2022 Michigan Celebrates Small Business gala.
Information about Michigan Celebrates Small Business can be found at www.MichiganCelebrates.org
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