This year’s Wisconsin Manufacturer of the Year award winner in the mega category, Neenah-based Plexus Corp., is looking to step away from its former identity as the Fox Cities’ best-kept secret. This week Plexus CEO Todd Kelsey, a 31-year company veteran, joins co-hosts Kate Bruns of Insight on Manufacturing and Ann Franz of the NEW Manufacturing Alliance on the NEW Manufacturing Insights podcast to talk more about the company.
This week’s episode, like all April episodes of NEW Manufacturing Insights, is sponsored by Werner Electric Supply.
Plexus, which markets no products under its corporate name, creates world-bettering innovations for three key manufacturing sectors: health care and life sciences, aerospace and defense, and industrial products. In 2023, the Bevi Bottleless Water Dispenser manufactured by Plexus in Appleton won WMC’s “Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin” award.
On this week’s episode, Kelsey shares more about Plexus’ innovations, which include things like robotic-assisted surgery systems, semiconductor testing equipment and mission critical avionics, to name just a few.
Kelsey tells the co-hosts it was an honor to receive the Manufacturer of the Year award and that the company, which employs 20,000 globally and 2,000 in Wisconsin, is committed to its home base in the Fox Cities, where it is positioned for long-term growth and success.
“We’re really excited about the trajectory of our business,” Kelsey tells the co-hosts on this week’s episode. “If we look at our fiscal 2024 we had a little bit of a slow start, as our markets were a bit soft, particularly around health care and industrial, but we saw that improve over the course of the year and we finished fiscal 2024 very strong, positioning us for a good 2025,” he says.
Listen to this week’s full podcast episode, produced by B.J. DeGroot of Woodward Community Media, on Spreaker or anywhere you listen to podcasts. New episodes are released on Thursdays.
