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Medical manufacturer’s products likely made for someone you love BY SARA MARIE MOORE EDITOR
It turns out the bits of adhesive material manufactured beyond her lobby desk will save her niece’s life. Kari Ennulat, sales and marketing assistant at Innovize, a medical manufacturing company in Vadnais Heights, was shocked to fi nd out that the electrical insulator fi lm in her 19-year-old niece’s cardioverter-defibrillator came from the place where she works every day. The medical manufacturing company produces materials that are used by major medical device companies, said Dave Jessen, co-owner and vice president of sales and marketing. Ennulat discovered Innovize produces the adhesive used in the batteries of her niece’s defibrillator to prevent the battery from shorting out, she explained. Her niece, a pre-med student at Butler University in Indiana, was found passed out at a health club last year. Doctors discovered an electrical issue with her heart. The implanted cardioverter-defibrillator will shock it back, should it malfunction again. “So, it will save her life,” Ennulat said. The products made by the company are used in all Minnesota hospitals and across the country. “We do a lot of component parts and we also make a lot of finished devices,” Jessen said. The products are sold to internationally known medical device companies that in turn supply medical providers. Examples of products include patient and personal care products used for wound care, eye patches, breathing tube adhesives and wearable sensors. Innovize produces a sensor that monitors blood glucose and displays the levels on an iPhone. It also
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The Innovize Executive Team, University of Minnesota and Philips Lighting representatives at the presentation of the Innovize Room to the U of M’s Masonic Children’s Hospital.
continues to manufacture the components that stick to the skin for traditional blood glucose monitoring. It is working on a new product that will help detect breast cancer without requiring a mammogram. It also produces wound care products for veterinary care. Innovize often works directly with its clients to
engineer their designs in order to reduce costs and create innovation, Jessen said. Many of Innovize’s supplies for production come from 3M nearby. A $2 million production of items that test for water purity was moved from Mexico to Vadnais SEE INNOVIZE, PAGE 10
Curling league comes to the east metro BY ELIZABETH CALLEN STAFF WRITER
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St. Croix Curling Club co-founder Jim Honsvall (left) poses with friends.
St. Croix Valley curling enthusiasts once needed to travel across the metro to get their fi x of the sport, but thanks to the St. Croix Curling Center, that has recently changed. Started by a group of local curlers, the league launched in November, bringing the ice-based sport to the east metro. Stillwater resident Jim Hosvall is among the league’s founding members. He calls himself a “lifelong curler” and learned the sport from his parents while growing up in North Dakota. Since moving to Minnesota, he has been a regular presence at the St. Paul Curling Club but long wished
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for a closer facility. “There isn’t any curling club in between St. Paul, Rice Lake and Eau Claire. There’s nothing in the St. Croix Valley, so there’s a definite need,” Hosvall said. It’s a need that he and four of his friends are working to fulfi ll. “We’re building interest. We’re starting this club to see if there’s enough interest and demand, and if there is, at some point, we hope to maybe build a club out here,” he said. Every Sunday afternoon, the St. Croix Curling Center holds two games on Sunday afternoons at the St. Mary’s Point Ice Arena in Lakeland. SEE CURLING, PAGE 10
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