2020 Winners

This family-owned mine contracting company is best known for developing the unique Alimak system used in stope mining. Over 34 years, Manroc has worked on projects around the globe, all while embracing innovative new technology.

Sunwire provides residential and business internet and telephone services to clients in Greater Sudbury and throughout Ontario. This rapidly expanding company has landed a spot on the list of Canada’s Fastest Growing Companies for two consecutive years.

A farm-to-table enterprise, Sunnynook Farms produces meat, produce, and preserves on 200 acres in Echo Bay, just east of Sault Ste. Marie. Products are sold at the farmgate, the local farmers market, and to restaurants throughout the area.

At the onset of COVID-19 last spring, Champagne and his team at North Bay Plastic Molders quickly pivoted from producing parts for the mining sector to address PPE shortages in the medical industry.

At Bright Spot Therapy Services, Rachel Pessah leads a team of professionals providing speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, reading intervention, and autism assessment services for clients in Timmins, Sudbury and remote fly-in communities.

Flosonics Medical's proprietary technology, the FloPatch, helps monitor a patient’s blood flow in real time, with results sent directly to a physician’s smartphone or tablet.

Unprecedented for its size and scope, the $1.6-billion Wataynikaneyap (Watay) Power project will connect 17 remote Indigenous communities to the provincial power grid for the first time.

A regional chiefs council representing five member First Nations, Wabun Tribal Council has led the way in creating a unique template for negotiating resource development projects taking place in its members’ traditional territories.

Rheault Distillery has been producing its award-winning vodka, whisky, rum, and liqueurs since opening in 2014. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, the distillery switched to producing hand sanitizer.