The Colorado Summit of the Ultimate Frisbee Association (UFA) announced live broadcast partnership with MTN TV and MTN Sports to broadcast matches for the 2024 season. Starting Saturday, May 4, viewers across Colorado will have the opportunity to watch all Colorado Summit matches from the comfort of their homes for free.
The Colorado Summit, founded with a mission to promote the sport of ultimate frisbee and foster a community of passionate players and fans, has quickly risen to prominence on the ultimate frisbee scene. In the team’s first two seasons in the UFA, the Summit has made the playoffs both seasons and led the league in attendance while amassing a 77% winning record over that time.
The team plays its home games at Marv Kay Stadium at Colorado School of Mines in Golden. The collaboration between the Colorado Summit and MTN TV stands to bring the sport of ultimate frisbee to a wider audience, fostering greater engagement and support within the community.
MTN TV, which reaches more than 2 million households in Colorado, is the state’s only outdoor and local sports network and committed to delivering top-tier sports content to viewers as part of its MTN Sports programming.
Fans can catch the Summit in action starting May 4 at 4:30 p.m. MT as it hosts the Seattle Cascades. The match will be accessible on MTN TV with an antenna on the Front Range on channel 28.1, on Xfinity in select mountain towns and throughout Colorado on the free MTN TV Roku, AppleTV and FireTV apps. Fans can also stream the Colorado Summit and all the UFA games live via watchUFA.tv.
For more information about the Colorado Summit and to stay up to date on news and events, visit watchufa.com/summit.
Learn more about how to watch MTN TV at mtn-tv.com.The live broadcast schedule can be found at mtn-tv.com/sports.
The International Franchise Association (IFA) named Tyler Fuss, owner of LIME Painting in Northern Colorado as a 2023 Franchisee of the Year. Fuss was honored at the 63rd IFA Annual Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, for being an outstanding franchise establishment owner-operator.
“Franchisee of the Year recipients represent the best in franchising,” said Matthew Haller, president and CEO of the International Franchise Association. “This is the highest honor IFA awards to individual franchisees, and local business owners like Tyler Fuss exemplify the power of franchising and its positive contributions to communities around the world.”
The Franchisee of the Year Award, sponsored by IFA’s partner Paychex, recognizes leading franchise owners from IFA member brands whose outstanding performance and contributions help protect, enhance, and promote the franchise business model. Nominated by their parent company, individuals are selected for their service to their communities, fostering a strong and vibrant workforce, opening the doors for career growth and entrepreneurship, and supporting their fellow franchisees.
“I am grateful and humbled to accept this award given by an incredible organization. Each day, our team focuses on how to better serve our clients, employees, each other and artisans. We strive for excellence by being intentional and focusing on the activities that will yield the best results. And, we have fun doing it through the LIME way,” said Tyler Fuss. “I’d like to offer our gratitude to God, to the IFA, Nick, our CEO, my parents, wife, employees, artisans, suppliers/vendors, and everyone else who has contributed to our success. Thank you for guiding our team along the way and making it possible. We will continue to work hard to serve others to the best of our ability and be a small part of keeping LIME as a world-class organization.”
LIME Painting offers 40 different painting, coating, and surface restoration services, but the brand is much more than that. LIME’s values of love, integrity, mission, and excellence motivate them to provide the best service possible using the highest quality products to maintain the aesthetic and structure of luxury properties. Whether it’s a standard repaint or a custom restoration job for a heavily distressed home, LIME is prepared to take on tasks and exceed customers’ expectations.
There are approximately 800,000 franchised businesses across the U.S., providing over 8.4 million direct jobs and generating over $800 billion in economic output. According to Oxford Economics, franchising on average provides higher wages and better benefits than non-franchised businesses, as well as greater entrepreneurial opportunities to minorities, women, veterans, and other underrepresented communities.
Celebrating over 60 years of excellence, education, and advocacy, the International Franchise Association (IFA) is the world’s oldest and largest organization representing franchising worldwide. IFA works through its government relations and public policy, media relations, and educational programs to protect, enhance and promote franchising and the approximately 790,492 franchise establishments that support nearly 8.4 million direct jobs, $825.4 billion of economic output for the U.S. economy, and almost 3 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). IFA members include franchise companies in over 300 different business format categories, individual franchisees, and companies that support the industry in marketing, law, technology, and business development.
About LIME Painting
After discovering his passion for home improvement while owning his first painting LLC, Nick Lopez founded LIME Painting in 2013 to set the standard of excellence in painting high-end residential and commercial properties. Five years later, he put his perfected business model to the test and began franchising to provide high-quality interior and exterior painting, coating, and other restoration services to maintain the aesthetic and integrity of luxury properties across the country. LIME Painting currently serves luxury home and business owners in all 78 locations in 19 states. For more information, go tohttps://limepainting.com/.
All Made In Colorado’s winners and finalists have at least one thing in common: They all make products in Colorado.
It underlines the sheer breadth of the products made in Colorado. While the Colorado manufacturing base is not as established as places like the Rust Belt and the Southeast, it is also unconstrained by tradition and underpinned by innovation.
And that might be exactly what the domestic industry needs as it rides a winning streak fueled by the return of manufacturing from China and other overseas locales — no matter whether it lands in Detroit or Kremmling, Colorado.
Hatmaker Trent Johnson is the fourth owner of Greeley Hat Works in its 113-year history.
After apprenticing at the shop, he bought the business in 1996, when it made 120 cowboy hats for the year. The annual output has since increased to more than 6,000.
Now 25 employees, Greeley Hat Works operates from a hybrid showroom/hattery that’s about 10,000 square feet — and counting. “We’re working on a new space just to the south of us as well,” says Johnson.
Good cowboy hats start with good raw materials. Greeley Hat Works sources hat bodies made from high-quality hare and beaver fur from suppliers in Europe. “We are right up there at the top importers of pure beaver and beaver-hare hat bodies,” says Johnson.
The company’s hats have made appearances in the Yellowstone TV show as well as an upcoming production from filmmaker David Lynch and “Zombieland: Double Tab.” “Even zombie killers need quality products,” laughs Johnson.
Regardless of screen time, Johnson says he is focused on serving everyday people from his home base in Weld County. “It’s real here. It isn’t Hollywood.”
It all started when co-founder Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski wanted a better place to store his bikes. The company started building stylish sheds in 2008 and has since moved into accessory dwelling units (ADUs). As of October 2022, Studio Shed had shipped roughly 80,000 square feet of product for the year.
Founder Jason Rider came up with C-BITEs to hold up tomato plants in his own garden, then realized he might have a product for the mass market. After selling more than 1 million C-BITEs in 2021, the company now makes the patented products in-house after working with a contract manufacturer.
Denver-based writer Eric Peterson is the author of Frommer’s Colorado, Frommer’s Montana & Wyoming, Frommer’s Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks and the Ramble series of guidebooks, featuring first-person travelogues covering everything from atomic landmarks in New Mexico to celebrity gone wrong in Hollywood. Peterson has also recently written about backpacking in Yosemite, cross-country skiing in Yellowstone and downhill skiing in Colorado for such publications as Denver’s Westword and The New York Daily News. He can be reached at [email protected]
Colorado is full of devoted entrepreneurs, business leaders and tech-savvy visionaries who are constantly taking the business world to new heights. It’s no secret that here, at ColoradoBiz, we love the Colorado business community. That’s why, every year, we spotlight the most impressive CEOs throughout our Centennial state and give credit where credit is due — to the forward-thinking minds constantly chasing the next great idea and upholding their business practices to the most purposeful ideals. We’re proud to introduce our finalists for CoBiz’s prestigious 2022 CEO of the Year award.
Bart Valdez is the visionary behind Ingenovis Health – parent company to healthcare staffing industry leaders such as Fastaff Travel Nursing, U.S. Nursing Corp. and Trustaff. Ingenovis was formed with the intention of bringing the best industry players together. Valdez’s strategy included merging five separate business units into one full-service business that doubled the operating margin in 12 months.
Valdez, a Navy veteran, initially assumed the role of CEO for Fastaff and U.S. Nursing in 2019, overseeing unprecedented revenue acceleration and implementing strategic measures for long-term growth. In mid-2021, Valdez, 59, was named CEO for the newly formed Ingenovis Health, a healthcare talent platform formed by the acquisitions of Fastaff, U.S. Nursing, Trustaff, CardioSolution, and Stella.ai.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Valdez led Fastaff and U.S. Nursing through swift operational initiatives and investments that enabled the companies to fulfill an unprecedented surge in demand for experienced nurses in more than 400 facilities across 45 states.
You may have read the popular Farming Fort Collins Blog turned online farm and ranch directory, turned e-zine, The Pig & The Plow: From the Field, but have you stopped by the Pig & Plow Farmstead Bakery and met the woman behind it all?
Erica Glaze has been busy. After growing up in the fresh, local food scene of New England, she saw a need when she moved to this area back in 2003. “I worked for the Federal government for 3 years and the State for 10 years, but I’m not a good office person, I was ready for a change.” Her desire to connect people to good, local food was the catalyst behind the Farming Fort Collins Blog. The blog turned into an online farm and ranch directory in 2014, then the e-zine evolved to explore the local food scene more. In 2017 she bought her first oven and launched The Pig & The Plow Bakery out of a converted shipping container on her Farmstead.
Erica connected with the Small Business Development Center through word of mouth and a mutual connection to an SBDC Consultant. “I took a start-up class and continued to move forward to figure out what was needed to take each next step.” She utilized the resources from the beginning and found a network of mentors. “I’m not afraid to raise my hand and ask for help. There are things you’re good at and things that don’t come naturally. With mentors it wasn’t just me, I had a huge network.”
The business consistently outgrew space after space. COVID could have devastated the business, but luckily Erica set it up right. “When COVID hit we had to stop our NOCO Meat Collective classes, the restaurants we supplied closed, and the Farmer’s Markets were halted. Luckily, we were already online and had a following. Within 24 hours we added other market partners to our website and continued selling.” COVID didn’t stop them from thinking about the future. In June of 2021, after outgrowing yet another space, they moved into the Colorado Feed & Grain in Timnath.
The opportunity to move into their newest location at 140 Boardwalk Dr. in Fort Collins presented itself earlier this year and within two months was a done deal. The space was formerly a bakery but also includes a great area for retail. “My husband was always really supportive and handy. He bought me that first oven and built the shipping container. When we decided to move to our new location we knew he needed to be more involved, so he officially became part owner.” It only took three days to move and set up the shop. They opened on November 15th.
The unique thing about the business is the attention to how they do things. “We’re not the only bakery in town, but we use local, organic ingredients to create a new twist on old classics.” One of Erica and her staff’s favorite parts of the business is exploring and blending food and culture to bring something new into the fold. No day is the same when you get to experiment and create.
The future for The Pig & The Plow Bakery looks bright. She’s focusing on continuing to develop the community around the business. She loves building opportunities for collaboration and creating a place for people to come and grow. One thing she looks forward to is continuing to be a part of people’s special things, whether it’s baking goods for an occasion or as a treat. “We had a woman at the farmer’s market who saw our Danish bread and cried. She was homesick and so happy to see and experience something familiar.”
Her advice for budding entrepreneurs is this: “Don’t waste your time figuring it all out on your own. Learn from other people’s mistakes. Find the experts and be open to expanding your network.” She also advises connecting with people in your industry, and not seeing them as just competition. “There’s room for everyone, the more we connect and help each other’s growth, it’s an awesome experience.”
She’s most proud of the business she built that continues to move forward. From a converted shipping container to having a great new space with the right equipment and a great team (The Pig & The Plow Bakery employs1 full-time employee and 2 seasonal contractors), not to mention the people they’ve connected with along the way.
Since 1989, the Larimer Small Business Development Center Network (SBDC) has been dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and businesses start, grow and prosper through street-smart business education and assistance throughout Larimer County.
We support the growth and resiliency of small businesses by providing free confidential business consulting, practical workshops & events, and connection to resources. Our consulting experts work in partnership to provide entrepreneurs with crucial information that can mean the difference between success and failure. Our vision is to be your premier, trusted choice for business consulting, training, and resources.
The outpouring of applications for this year’s Top Company awards is a testament to the resilience and adaptability of enterprises that do business in the state. Applications for the 35th annual awards numbered in the hundreds, and it was particularly encouraging to see so many companies rebounding from two years of COVID restrictions, with most posting revenue and employee gains approaching—and in some cases, exceeding—pre-pandemic numbers.
This year’s Top Company winners and finalists represent 13 industry categories, plus a startup category for companies in business less than four years. Entrants were judged on three criteria: outstanding achievement, financial performance and community involvement. The judging panel was made up of ColoradoBiz magazine’s editorial board and two representatives from the business community.
Since 2015, Barber-Nichols has grown more than twofold – in terms both of revenue and its workforce, as the company has expanded from 72 employees to 180 in the past seven years.
The Arvada-based firm provides pumps, compressors, turbine systems, rocket engine turbo pumps, motors and thermal management solutions across aerospace, cryogenics, defense and energy sectors. Barber-Nichols has been at the forefront of aerospace innovation for 50 years and is showing no signs of stopping.
“BN continues to experience rapid growth in current business industries including undersea power and propulsion systems, thermal management systems, space-based applications and advanced power generation and energy storage,” the company says.
To facilitate expansion, the company acquired property adjacent to its current campus. The new facility will improve manufacturing efficiency by consolidating BN’s machining, quality control and manufacturing support operations. By designing, manufacturing, and testing turbomachinery, Barber-Nichols continues to push the envelope of integrated engineering.
Among the company’s goals: Continue 15% year-over-year growth in four product group areas; maintain a top-notch employee-centric culture with a 4.9 out of 5 Glassdoor score; and manufacture mission-critical products that impact the world.
Meanwhile, the company is helping to develop the next generation of aerospace technicians, as it offers an apprenticeship program with Red Rocks Community College.
The outpouring of applications for this year’s Top Company awards is a testament to the resilience and adaptability of enterprises that do business in the state. Applications for the 35th annual awards numbered in the hundreds, and it was particularly encouraging to see so many companies rebounding from two years of COVID restrictions, with most posting revenue and employee gains approaching—and in some cases, exceeding—pre-pandemic numbers.
This year’s Top Company winners and finalists represent 13 industry categories, plus a startup category for companies in business less than four years. Entrants were judged on three criteria: outstanding achievement, financial performance and community involvement. The judging panel was made up of ColoradoBiz magazine’s editorial board and two representatives from the business community.
National Valuation Consultants provides a broad range of appraisal, consultation and real estate advisory services. In 2021, NVC served nearly 600 clients and completed valuation and advisory assignments on commercial properties with an aggregate value exceeding $500 billion.
To retain its top talent, NVC offers opportunities for personal and professional growth, such as having staff mentor and review other appraisers. For those demonstrating strong managerial skills, there is the prospect of leading a practice group or regional office.
NVC’s motto is “Thinking Big to Better Our Community.” Employees held a fundraiser for Marshall Fire victims and, with the help of NVC’s corporate match, raised more than $12,000 to help the cause. Employees are also involved with Food for Thought, and helped to pack PowerSacks filled with nonperishable food to help fill the weekend hunger gap for school children and their families in the Denver area. In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic caused the cancellation of the X-Drive Classic golf tournament fundraiser for Joshua School and Treeline Pass, NVC employees created an in-office, socially distanced miniature golf tournament with holes designed and sponsored by employees, raising $10,000.
To simplify many business processes and procedures, NVC has invested in technological solutions that enable employees to perform their jobs more efficiently and with greater accuracy. Among the solutions are Keystone, a web-based valuation data management system, and Velocity, a cloud-based proprietary appraisal management tool. NVC also developed appraisal report templates that reduce the time required for data entry.
Named for founder Holly Steele’s late brother Gavin Heath Whitrock, GavinHeath is a search and solutions firm. It is dual-certified as a Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) and a Women Business Enterprise (WBE) through the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council. The firm has a mission to provide unparalleled and inclusive staffing solutions, connecting people, businesses and communities, while equally fulfilling the diverse needs of its customers.
In 2019 the company adapted quickly to market changes. GavinHeath shifted from primarily supporting contract, IT-related staffing solutions in specific business verticals to expanding the company’s offerings outside of IT, placing more permanent candidates and offering fee flexibility.
GavinHeath has a commitment to expanding Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) initiatives within staffing. The firm strives to deliver exceptional professionals who can diversify and grow their clients’ ecosystems while simultaneously providing new opportunity to nurture and broaden one’s own career. In 2021, the firm initiated a DEI Committee to develop an overall DEI strategy for the company, accelerate DEI initiatives with dedicated focus, create accountability for results, and set key milestones.
Holly and her husband, COO Dan Steele, are actively involved in charitable work such as helping at Project C.U.R.E. To support employees’ volunteer activities, leadership established a Volunteer Time Off (VTO) program. In lieu of traditional holiday gifts for clients, GavinHeath reallocates those funds to selected charities, which in 2021 represented local (Denver Kids), statewide (Food Bank of the Rockies), national (SHIFTai) and global (Solar Buddy) communities.
Buehler Companies specializes in household goods moving, office moving, warehousing and storage. The company offers installation services and offers customers a “One-Stop Shop” to serve all their moving needs. From packing, to moving, to unpacking and putting it all away, the company handles every move big or small. Over the years, Buehler Companies has diversified its business model and purchased additional equipment to cover different types of jobs, including flatbed services, hazardous materials, hotel projects, libraries and larger exhibits.
For community work, Buehler Companies makes good use of its trucks and warehouse space.
The mover picks up food from Food Bank of the Rockies each week and delivers to local schools in need. For Fill The Mayflower, it stages a truck outside a Safeway to gather non-perishable items for troops at Buckley AFB, for families of service members serving overseas. With Cops Fighting Cancer, police officers from all over the state gather in the warehouse and hold a donut eating contest, host a silent auction, and gather donations for Children’s Hospital Colorado.
Buehler Companies’ core values are, “We’re in this together,” “Be part of the solution,” “Do the right thing,” and “Attitude is everything.” These are written on a wall and on cards for employees. Leadership speaks about the core values at company meetings and at training at Buehler University, which was established to help educate the incoming staff to find and create career paths so they can grow professionally and personally within the company.
Griffiths Law is a mid-size, full-service family law and civil litigation firm. The team of attorneys can assist with any aspect of family law, including divorce, child custody, child support, and maintenance. The civil litigation attorneys handle cases involving construction defects, insurance, real estate corporate and partnership matters. The attorneys have earned numerous awards and recognitions for achievements in law as well as business management.
In 2021–2022, the firm and its attorneys prevailed at the Colorado Court of Appeals and Colorado Supreme Court, several times changing the law and advancing their clients’ interests in cases that involved nonparent rights, property division, maintenance, and child support.
Attorneys actively take part in legal education, author legal scholarship and articles, teach legal education courses, and serve on boards. The firm is involved in pro bono commitments and volunteer work, and employees are engaged in everything from fighting breast cancer to providing pro bono legal services to human trafficking survivors to ensuring that programs like CASA (court-appointed special advocates) are funded and thriving.
Griffiths Law provides training to up and coming legal professionals. The Pathfinders Program, which pairs aspiring attorneys with mentors, contributes toward tuition for those Pathfinders who continue working at the firm while attending law school. The firm also has a culture that who empowers women. Over 70% of the firm’s attorneys at present are women, in roles varying from president (Suzanne Griffiths) to legal assistants starting their careers, and leadership structured the firm to encourage women to grow through the ranks.
For more than 100 years, Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP has served clients nationally and internationally, with a strong focus on corporate finance and governance, mergers and acquisitions, natural resources, environmental law, real estate, intellectual property, and complex litigation. The lawyers, who operate out of a single office in Denver, have extensive experience working with companies in the energy, mining, technology, hospitality, private equity, and asset management industries.
DGS is the exclusive Colorado member firm for Lex Mundi, a network of top-tier independent law firms across the U.S. and in more than 125 countries. With 145 attorneys and a 1:1 partner-to-associate ratio, the firm represents both Fortune 500 companies and startups.
As a firm, DGS has been consistently recognized for its commitment to fostering a culture that empowers diversity, equity, and inclusion. Half of the firm’s executive committee members are women, and in 2021, DGS ranked 12th in Law360’s 2021 Glass Ceiling Report. In partnership with the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS), DGS and four other law firms formed the Denver Law Firm Coalition for Racial Equity. The Coalition’s mission is to make the Denver legal community a desirable place for attorneys of color – with an initial focus on African American attorneys – from across the country.
In 2021, DGS completed 20,153 hours of legal pro bono work and community service. In 2024 the firm will relocate to the top three floors of Paradigm River North, a state-of-the-art office development in RiNo.
MotoMinded LLC, a small but efficient company with a passion for imaging, designing, and producing quality products for motorcycles, has announced its relocation from Colorado Springs to Mesa County.
MotoMinded specializes in manufacturing LED lighting and mounts for motorcycles. The company utilizes several advanced manufacturing techniques to produce products in-house along with outsourced billet CNC vendors. Their current capabilities include additive manufacturing, laser cutting and etching, and CNC routing. They are committed to sourcing as many materials as possible from U.S.-based suppliers and manufacturers and emphasize trail advocacy with donations to the Colorado Trails Preservation Alliance.
Chis Vestal, owner of MotoMinded, stated, “We chose Mesa County for several reasons. The most important reason is a better quality of life for us and our employees. Outside the shop we love to ride our bicycles and motorcycles, hike and look forward to getting into water recreation on the Colorado River. The local outdoor recreation economy has grown to a point we feel can support us and we look forward to getting involved and help to grow it further.”
MotoMinded has been working closely with the Grand Junction Economic Partnership throughout the process of relocating to Mesa County. Curtis Englehart, GJEP Executive Director stated, “We are very excited to announce the relocation of MotoMinded to the Grand Junction area! MotoMinded is a very impressive outdoor recreation manufacturing company that has a lot of potential to thrive in their new home. This relocation is a great example of GJEP’s vision to help create a strong and diverse economy in Mesa County.”
MotoMinded is working through the process of renovating its facility and will be utilizing the Enterprise Zone tax credit incentive gaining them incentives for job creation, employee training, and expenditures on capital investment.
As MotoMinded moves its operations to Mesa County, they plan to hire several positions. Currently, MotoMinded is seeking a full-time Production Operator. This position is responsible for assembling motorcycle accessories, performing quality control, and working closely with leadership on daily operations. For more information on this job posting, please contact [email protected].
About the Grand Junction Economic Partnership: The Grand Junction Economic Partnership (GJEP) works to enhance the economic vitality and quality of life in the Grand Junction area by supporting high-impact capital investment and job creation. GJEP is a single stop for businesses looking to relocate or expand in the cities of Grand Junction and Fruita, the Town of Palisade, and surrounding communities of Colorado’s Grand Valley (Mesa County). Operating as a 501(c)3, GJEP offers free services that connect businesses with realtors, developers, the workforce, local leadership, and more. Visit www.gjep.org for more information.
The outpouring of applications for this year’s Top Company awards is a testament to the resilience and adaptability of enterprises that do business in the state. Applications for the 35th annual awards numbered in the hundreds, and it was particularly encouraging to see so many companies rebounding from two years of COVID restrictions, with most posting revenue and employee gains approaching—and in some cases, exceeding—pre-pandemic numbers.
This year’s Top Company winners and finalists represent 13 industry categories, plus a startup category for companies in business less than four years. Entrants were judged on three criteria: outstanding achievement, financial performance and community involvement. The judging panel was made up of ColoradoBiz magazine’s editorial board and two representatives from the business community.
Gardeners in Colorado looking to grow year-round can turn to Growing Spaces, which manufactures and installs geodesic greenhouse kits. The greenhouse is 100% solar powered and utilizes a thermal mass in the form of an above-ground pond. The company supports customers through blogs, videos and Facebook groups offering help with gardening challenges.
Growing Spaces purchased a new manufacturing facility and has used the additional space to improve production efficiency. The manufacturer also added solar, so both shops are run off 100% renewable energy.
Each year Growing Spaces offers an Urban Farming Grant for an underserved community. In 2022 the grant winners were Harlem Grown in New York City, and Valor Point VA Domiciliary in Lakewood. The 26-foot Growing Dome for Valor Point, scheduled for September installation, will be used for both inpatient and outpatient education, and to help veterans learn a new skill and get back into the workforce.
Employees are active in the Pagosa Springs community, and volunteer at the local food hubs and Habitat For Humanity. Employees get first choice of the produce grown in the company’s own domes, and Growing Spaces also donates the food it produces to the local food hubs in Pagosa Springs and Golden. Growing Spaces is looking to expand its presence in the Front Range, and hopes to open a new office and manufacturing facility in Denver in 2023. It also wants to establish hubs in other states and countries through either expansion or partnerships.
Alpen High Performance Products custom manufactures super-insulating, thermally efficient residential and commercial windows and doors. The company uses a proprietary combination of component products including lightweight suspended-film technology, ultra-thin glass, and either fiberglass or fiberglass-reinforced uPVC framing systems.
Alpen’s new product, WinSert, is a high performance secondary window insert to improve existing single-glazed or lower-performing double-pane windows. The new product was recognized as a BuildingGreen Top 10 Product for 2022. Also, the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Green Proving Ground (GPG) Program conducted nearly year-long testing and evaluation of WinSert secondary window inserts and reported that the inserts demonstrated up to 18% whole-building energy savings based on energy modeling.
After the December 2021 Marshall Fire, Alpen employees assisted with the relief efforts for neighbors in Louisville and Superior by collecting donated goods and supplies. Alpen is further helping with the long-term relief efforts by developing a specific window product line to assist with rebuilding homes. This product will make it more accessible for homeowners to rebuild with high efficiency window components, helping the fight against climate change.
Alpen hosts quarterly meetings to recognize employees and show appreciation for the hard work that goes into manufacturing this product. The company is a sustaining sponsor for the Colorado Green Building Guild (CGBG), helping make high performance building more accessible for all, and looks to become a major influencer in the retrofitting and upgrading of existing older building stock to bring it up to today’s energy performance standards.
Agri-Inject manufactures chemical and fertilizer injection systems that connect to irrigation systems. The equipment allows the irrigation systems to do double or triple duty by applying both water and fertilizers, chemicals, or other helpful products simultaneously. The system promotes environmental benefits, user safety, timely and precision application as well as cost savings for growers.
Since 2013, Agri-Inject has been undergoing an operational transformation. Beginning with a digital 3D model, the company reorganized the entire factory to promote efficient movement of people, product and information. It removed walls, installed lighting, polished old concrete, and designed and installed new storage and production cells. It expanded the facility by 40% and recently broke ground to add another 25%. There is also a one-piece flow production line for a product line that is about 60% of total business volume, switching from an outmoded batch philosophy and reducing assembly time by over 70%.
Among the company’s product innovations is ReflexCONNECT. The Reflex product line is centered around sophisticated controls to operate injection pumps featuring PLC control and touchscreen interfaces. ReflexCONNECT takes that step to the age of IoT (Internet of Things), bringing the control features to the web, allowing remote control and monitoring of equipment from a computer, tablet or smartphone.
Agri-Inject works with schools to educate students about manufacturing, and holds a Manufacturing Day event, bringing in students from nearby schools for a tour of the facility, and discussion of products, markets and processes.
Matt Barnett is the co-founder of The Basketball Social House in Centennial, Colorado. The 21,000 sq. ft. venue has a variety of basketball courts, private suites, digital games, gourmet kitchen, a full bar, and an upscale lounge. The first of its kind, the facility is dedicated to bringing families and friends together to enjoy the game of basketball through unique and innovative experiences.
Barnett graduated from Douglas County High School in Castle Rock, Colorado, where he played basketball and baseball. He earned three letters in basketball and two in baseball. He was a two-time all-state selection in basketball and an all-conference baseball player. He signed his National letter of Intent to attend Colorado State University after receiving multiple offers to many Division I schools.
At Colorado State, Barnett was a four-year starter under Coach Stew Morrill and played his way into the record books where he is third all-time in rebounds and fourth all time is assists. He earned his BA from Colorado State University in Liberal Arts with a concentration in Social Sciences.
After completing his college career, Barnett played professionally in Auckland, New Zealand for one season where he averaged twenty points and ten rebounds a game. Upon returning to Colorado, Mr. Barnett accepted a position as a recreation coordinator for the City of Greenwood Village, and he started his own business, Hoops4You LLC, training professional/college and youth basketball players.
In 2012, Barnett started a competitive youth basketball club called Elevation Flyers. His club is one of the longest standing and most-respected youth basketball clubs in the state of Colorado where they have successfully competed on a local and national level. While still operating the Elevation Flyers Basketball club, Barnett was the Director of Basketball for the Panorama Sports Institute from 2016-2020 under the direction of former NBA strength and conditioning coach Steve Hess and NBA Finals MVP Chauncey Billups.
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