{"id":709,"date":"2020-09-17T12:57:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T12:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackrockengineering.ca\/?p=709"},"modified":"2020-09-17T12:57:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T12:57:57","slug":"sudbury-chamber-celebrates-business-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackrockengineering.ca\/sudbury-chamber-celebrates-business-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudbury chamber celebrates business excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1790\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ionicmechatronics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/scc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" \/>\u201cInnovation is of no use if there\u2019s no one to use it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andr\u00e9 Dumais invoked those words from Ionic Mechatronics founder Steve Matusch on Tuesday night as he accepted the Innovation Award on behalf of the company during the 2020 Bell Business Excellence Awards, presented by the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p>Matusch died in March before he could witness the company\u2019s achievement.<\/p>\n<p>But his passion for innovation shines through as the mining-industry automation company moves forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to dedicate this award to the memory of Steve, the founder of our organization, and I really hope to keep his memory alive over the next 20 years,\u201d Dumais said.<\/p>\n<p>The Innovation Award recognizes a company that has demonstrated product research and prototype development, or the marketing of new innovations in science, technology, special needs, or the environmental field.<\/p>\n<p>Ionic has come up with a number of innovations for the mining industry, including the SafeBox, an energy isolation system that \u201csignificantly increases safety while increasing production,\u201d Dumais said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Ionic, one of the things we really try to do is make sure that the market is ready for a particular innovation,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause ideas are a dime a dozen, and you can come up with the greatest idea, but if no one\u2019s going to buy it, it\u2019s not really an innovation and it doesn\u2019t bring any value to the organization or to industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ionic was one of 10 recipients to be recognized at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Other winners include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Business Startup: Ivey Group<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Service Excellence: Total Nursing Care Inc.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Small Enterprise: Exceptional Painting Inc.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Entrepreneur of the Year: Gabrielle Roy, owner, Stitch and Stone<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Young Entrepreneur of the Year: Ashley Kirwan, cofounder, CEO, and principal geologist at Orix Geoscience<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Best Place to Work: MIC Canadian Eatery and Whiskey Pub<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Company of the Year: Cambrian Ford Sales Inc.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Not-for-profit Charity Excellence: Northern Ontario Families of Children with Cancer<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Executive of the Year: Ray Jambakhsh, chief technical advisor and senior principal at  DST Consulting Engineers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666; font-size: 13px;\">Source: <a style=\"color: #666;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sudbury.com\/local-news\/sudbury-chamber-celebrates-business-excellence-2718977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.Sudbury.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cInnovation is of no use if there\u2019s no one to use it.\u201d Andr\u00e9 Dumais invoked those words from Ionic Mechatronics founder Steve Matusch on Tuesday night as he accepted the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sudbury chamber celebrates business excellence - Black Rock Engineering Consultants | 705.222.2000<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Black Rock Engineering located in Sudbury, Ontario, offers Mechanical, Electrical, Automation, and Energy Solutions. 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