Mortara Named "Manufacturer of the Year"

March 03, 2005

Company receives grand award for high technology and special award for healthcare innovation.

 

Company receives grand award for high technology and special award for healthcare innovation.

March 3, 2005

Mortara Instrument was honored during the Manufacturer of the Year awards banquet with double honors, winning both the grand award for high-technology and a special award recognizing innovation in health care innovation. The annual Manufacturer of the Year competition is sponsored by Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, the state's largest business trade group, and the law firm Michael Best & Friedrich and accounting firm Virchow, Krause & Co.  A total of 16 Wisconsin manufacturers were recognized at the event. Mortara received the grand award for its new product platform development including the X12+ telemetry transmitter and the ELI 250 electrocardiograph.  The special award for health care innovation was given for Mortara's development of an ECG warehouse to be used by the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. On receiving the award, Dr. Justin Mortara, Vice president noted, "It is a great honor to be recognized for the accomplishments of both our engineering and operations groups.  Mortara Instrument is growing globally, while developing and manufacturing locally.  We look forward introducing more new products and to begin production use of the ECG Warehouse later this year."

About Mortara Mortara Instrument's headquarters are located in Milwaukee, Wis., with European operations based in Bologna, Italy . Mortara Instrument is distinguished in the field of non-invasive cardiology innovations that are the core of the company's complete line of ECG products including electrocardiographs, stress exercise systems, Holter systems, data warehousing solutions, and cardiology monitoring systems. The company's website is www.mortara.com