CORPORATE OVERVIEW

Innovance is a 100% employee-owned ESOP holding company with four operating companies. We have more than one-half century of experience operating and/or funding customer-focused, middle-market manufacturing companies.

We acquire and operate manufacturing companies with long-term growth potential.
We offer strategy and operational expertise with a scaled support to enable strong management teams to do their best work.
We build sustainable value with excellent customer experiences, using innovation to drive performance, and valuing continuous improvement over a long-term investment horizon.
We passionately live our culture as a caring family of empowered employee-owners dedicated to growing our operating companies by creating value for customers.

Innovance manages shared administrative services in the following areas, so our operating companies can focus solely on making great products for our customers.

Human
Resources

Marketing

Finance

Information
Technology

Safety, Environmental & Security

CORE VALUES

“Innovation DRIVEs Performance”

Diversity

We value and respect our differences to create and maintain a competitive advantage.

Resilience

We recognize that perseverance, adaptability, and competency will help overcome our challenges.

We value learning and building rewarding careers by evolving employees’ knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Integrity

We do what we say and what is right.

We are accountable for our assigned responsibilities, commitments, and obligations.

We respect one another in all we do.

Virtue

We ensure a friendly, safe, and secure working environment.

We provide a healthy work-life balance and are socially and environmentally responsible.

We are concerned about the well-being of others.

Excellence

We embrace and value creativity, innovation, teamwork, and performance to do our best work.

EMPLOYEE-OWNED ADVANTAGE

Headquartered in Albert Lea, Minnesota, Innovance is 100% employee owned. Our team is passionate, knowledgeable, and absolute experts at what they do.

At Innovance, we believe that when employees are owners, that makes everything in the customer experience better. While we are proud of the equipment and capabilities inside our facilities, our greatest asset, and the reason our customers trust Innovance companies, will always be our people.