Business: Custom developer and manufacturer of wire and cable assemblies.
Founded: 1968
Headquarters: St. Paul
Website: www.mnwire.com
Executives: Paul Wagner, chairman and CEO; Eric Wagner, president; Joan Thompson, executive vice president and chief financial officer, and Chip Laingen director of communications.
Employees: 252
2007 revenue: $25 million
Strategy: Pursue commercial markets for stretchy wire and other products developed through R&D grants, apply for additional grants that will benefit core business activities.
Just as Lawrence Kazmerski, a top official at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was about to give the keynote address at the University of Minnesota's annual E3 conference at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, the lights went out, bathing the audience in darkness and a deep sense of irony.
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