B2B Partners

Martin Hood is dedicated to providing practical advice and excellent service to businesses, organizations and individuals. Learn how you can benefit from our collaborative approach and direct your financial future toward success.

CLA exists to create opportunities for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. With more than 8,500 people, nearly 130 U.S. locations, and a global vision, we promise to know you and help you. For more information, visit CLAconnect.com. CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen LLP) is an independent network member of CLA Global. See CLAglobal.com/disclaimer. Investment advisory services are offered through CliftonLarsonAllen Wealth Advisors, LLC, an SEC-registered investment advisor. 

Business today is more fluid than ever. Helping manufacturers achieve their goals takes imagination, discipline and a process that delivers results today while anticipating tomorrow’s demands. That’s Wipfli. With more than 7,500 manufacturing, retail and distribution clients, Wipfli ranks among the top 20 accounting and business consulting firms in the nation. From operational improvements and performance enhancements to large-scale digital transformation, we help clients achieve lasting results and set their sights on new goals. Learn more: https://www.wipfli.com/manufacturing

Better Drives Us
We get things done. Immersing ourselves in the communities, industries and businesses that we serve. Striving always to deliver more and do better for our clients.
That’s our promise.

Having the information you need at your fingertips is vital when making business decisions. At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, we are committed to providing the resources, tools and information you need to help you make the best choices for your employees and your business.

BMO is a leading bank driven by a single purpose: to Boldly Grow the Good in business and life. Everywhere we do business, we’re focused on building, investing and transforming how we work to drive performance and continue growing the good.

As a manufacturer in a challenging marketplace, you strive to keep your plant efficient, competitive and profitable. Your facility, equipment breakdowns, supplier or distributor problems, product transmission or liability or employee safety: Nearly everything in the industry carries risk.

At U.S. Bank, we believe your company can reach its goals, no matter how ambitious, and we have the products and services to help you reach them. Start making your possible happen today. Member FDIC.

State Farm is a mutual company that makes its primary focus its policyholders. Our more than 58,000 employees and more than 19,000 independent contractor agents service 83 million policies and accounts throughout the U.S.

Amerisure is an insurance organization charged with creating exceptional value for its Partners for Success^® agencies, employees and policyholders.

At Sentry—because we are a mutual insurance company—our business is built on a foundation of service to our policyholders. Although we’ve grown and changed a lot over the past 110 years, one thing hasn’t changed. We still work to serve our policyholders, and to help their businesses thrive.

Project Financing for Innovative Organizations

For generations, we’ve been helping people go further. From exchanging gold coins for paper checks to enabling online transactions, we’re continually innovating so our customers can get ahead.

Assurance, a Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC, company, is a full-service brokerage providing business insurance, employee benefits, private client insurance, and retirement services to businesses and individuals across the country. Assurance operates as Marsh & McLennan Agency’s Midwest regional headquarters.

Founded in 1911, EMC Insurance Companies is in the top 60 property/casualty organizations in the United States. We have been serving our policyholders and independent agents for more than 110 years and plan to continue serving them for 110 more. Today, EMC employs approximately 2,200 employees and sells its products solely through independent insurance agencies in more than 40 states. We believe our partnership with independent agents brings a superior level of personalized service to the insurance process.

Zurich has over 148 years of experience managing risk and supporting resilience. Founded in Switzerland in 1872, Zurich expanded to North America in 1912 and grew into a leading provider of commercial property-casualty insurance solutions and services in the U.S. and Canada. Today, we serve more than 25 industries, from agriculture to technology. In rapidly changing times, our people remain committed to protect you, inspire confidence and help you reach your full potential.

Sebold Capital provides a unique vantage on wealth management. By focusing on the distinct needs of manufacturing business owners, leaders and their families, Sebold is able to guide the client through life decisions that bridge the gap between wealth and quality of life.

The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) protects people from life’s uncertainties with more than 113 million proprietary policies. Allstate offers a broad array of protection products through multiple brands and diverse distribution channels, including auto, home, life and other insurance offered through its Allstate, Esurance, Encompass, SquareTrade and Answer Financial brands. Allstate is widely known from the slogan “You’re in Good Hands with Allstate.”

First American Equipment Finance is one of the country’s largest and most respected equipment finance companies that helps organizations grow and achieve their goals. The firm provides project financing to sophisticated commercial borrowers throughout the U.S. First American cultivates an award-winning culture, regularly named a top workplace locally and nationally. The firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of Los Angeles, California-based City National Bank (an RBC Company).

USI Insurance Services is one of the largest insurance consulting and brokerage firms in the country, serving thousands of employer clients in the Manufacturing and Industrial sectors.  Their locally-focused, nationally-networked team of subject matter experts provide support and consultation in the areas of Employee Benefits, Property & Casualty, Retirement and Personal Lines insurance.  USI has been an IMA partner since 2021 and continues to expand their dedicated Manufacturing Consulting Practice in Illinois and throughout the United States.

Fifth Third Bank has been serving businesses for over 160 years supporting retail, commercial, corporate and investment clients along with  a strong community commitment. Fifth Third Bank has always been, and always will be, a relationship bank focused on keeping our customers at the center of all we do. We deliver custom solutions to meet the specific goals of your business.

Whether your legal needs are local, national or international, we invite you to discover the advantages of working with Barnes & Thornburg.

HeplerBroom handles cases in a wide variety of areas, primarily representing defendants in civil law suits including class action, pharmaceutical & medical devices, products liability, personal injury, asbestos & toxic tort, labor & employment, medical & professional liability, nursing home law, insurance law, commercial & antitrust litigation as well as white collar criminal defense.

Horwood Marcus & Berk combines the resources and diversity of a sophisticated commercial law practice with the entrepreneurial atmosphere and creativity of a boutique law firm. We provide world-class resources to clients by drawing on the firm’s demonstrated capabilities and relationships to build a team of professionals with proven experience.

Taft Chicago is immersed in the city’s numerous business and cultural offerings. Our Chicago attorneys are equipped to serve clients from Fortune 500 corporations to small businesses. The office concentrates on matters involving real estate, zoning, gaming, government relations and public finance, as well as litigation of all types including employment and intellectual property.

Our national client base relies on the firm’s attorneys in practice areas including mergers and acquisitions, litigation, financial services, real estate, employee benefits, tax planning, trusts and estates, arbitration and mediation.

Since 1852, Miller Canfield’s collaborative approach, deep resources and network of local, regional and worldwide relationships have helped our lawyers get work done quickly, efficiently and successfully for our clients.

At Amundsen Davis’s core, you’ll find a full service law firm built on a foundation of integrity, tenacity, shared values and commitment to our clients. Our attorneys are prepared to handle a multitude of diverse legal services from the inception of business, to labor and employment issues, and litigation.

With the combined heft and power of a multinational firm and the predictability and project management attention of a boutique, we are our clients’ most trusted business advisors. We offer top-flight counsel, educational resources and programming, and determination to exceed expectations in pursuit of their goals.

Faegre Drinker is a top 50 firm designed for clients. We opened our doors on February 1, 2020, uniting Faegre Baker Daniels and Drinker Biddle & Reath, two firms known for exceptional legal and consulting capabilities and a commitment to service excellence. Clients are at the start — and the heart — of everything we do.

Vedder Price is a thriving, business-focused law firm with a global reach. With 300 attorneys and growing, we serve clients of all sizes and industries from our strategically located offices in Chicago, New York, Washington, DC, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Singapore and Dallas. We provide high-value legal counsel to manufacturers in labor and employment, real estate, environmental and litigation matters, as well as in corporate finance and transactions.

Understand. Innovate. Solve. These three values have inspired our work for clients since our founding in 1895. Likewise, they have helped fuel our growth from a local firm to one serving clients on a regional, national and international scale.

HMB is a mid-sized law firm that punches above its weight class. In short, we are known for the sophisticated legal work and business counsel we provide, akin to that found in larger law firms, while maintaining the personalized relationships, value and services found in boutique law firms. We often serve as “outside, in-house” counsel to clients ranging from entrepreneurs, to middle-marked companies, to Fortune 500 companies. We have a significant number of clients within and adjacent to the manufacturing industry, and we help them with issues ranging from employment matters, contracts and contract disputes, transactions, financing and more. Please feel free to reach out to a member of our team to learn more www.HMBLAW.com.

Clark Hill is an international team of legal advisors focused on delivering exceptional growth for your business. Our attorneys and professionals have led manufacturing and engineering businesses, and clients partner with us in labor and employment law, government regulations, risk management, real estate, contract preparation, corporate governance, succession planning, finance, litigation, mergers, and sales.

Founded by entrepreneurially-minded alumni of some of the country’s largest law firms and most powerful government agencies, Croke Fairchild Duarte & Beres (CFDB) is setting a new standard for excellence in client service and legal acumen. Driven to create a firm that would meet the needs of the modern business enterprise, we’ve built CFDB with a focus on anticipating threats, navigating complexity, delivering pragmatic solutions, and advancing our client’s long-term interests.

Heritage-Crystal Clean is a provider of Parts Cleaning, Used Oil Pick-up, Re-Refining Hazardous & Non-Hazardous Waste. HCC also offers Waste Drum services, Vacuum Services and Absorbent Services.

Link Logistics is the largest U.S.-only owner and operator of last-mile industrial real estate. With more than 500 million square feet in key markets nationwide, we use our scale to drive value for our customers and stakeholders.

Regardless of your company’s size or industry we can create a custom waste pickup program that meets your needs and helps protect the environment.

Bright Sky is your single-source maintenance, security and staffing partner, with a comprehensive approach that eliminates multiple service contracts.  We offer clients a complete range of services for the commercial, industrial and logistics markets on local, regional and national levels.

Family owned and operated since 1968, Alarm Detection Systems, Inc. (ADS) understands that nothing is more important than the safety of your family and the protection of your business.

Every day, Ameren is working hard to provide more reliable energy, reduce outages and restore power faster than ever before. It’s all part of our ongoing commitment to keep pace with future energy needs, as we proudly continue to serve, support and invest in the communities we call home.

Bornquist, Inc. is your source for Fluid Handling Products and Services, from basic hydronic and plumbing equipment to high end, fully engineered systems and pre-packaged assemblies.

Our purpose is to provide science-based information about carpet and rugs – from health benefits to improved air quality to care and cleaning. If you’ve got questions, CRI is the place to find answers.

Peerless has been serving the needs of residents and businesses in Central Illinois since 1945. As your local cleaning experts, we are here to help you with all of your cleaning needs including dry cleaning, carpet cleaning, air duct cleaning, emergency restoration, sanitizing, and more for both residential and commercial properties. No matter your cleaning needs, Peerless is here for you.

We don’t wait for the future. We build it.

Founded in 1895, the Cary Company is the ultimate destination for containers, filtration products, temperature control products and more. With warehouses and salespeople across the U.S., we’re equipped to meet any requirement our customers have. Our huge product lineup and partnerships with top manufacturers set us apart from the competition. From competitive pricing to exceptional customer service, The Cary Company is synonymous with excellence—if you’re looking for a business partner who embodies innovation, look no further.

ILMO Products Company is a single-source provider of medical, industrial, and laboratory gases. Additionally, ILMO offers welding equipment, sales, service, and supply. The Floreth family started the company in 1913, and operations now encompass central and southern Illinois along with northeastern Missouri.

Vitco Steel Supply Corporation has been a dependable source of supply for high quality slit steel products since 1971. Today, through a continuing program of modernization and updating of processing equipment and handling methods, our quality and service is better than ever.

TRI Industries is a leading provider of remanufactured imaging supplies. We feature quality-tested AbilityOne products that are 100% satisfaction guaranteed. TRI’s high-performance, eco-friendly office supplies will support your business, budget, and environmental objectives. Our knowledgeable staff members are committed and eager to assist you with personalized office solutions and prompt delivery.

Providing outsourced logistics services to manufacturers and distributors.

Help your business stay connected, secure, and ready for what’s next

Neuco is the leading master distributor of HVACR controls in North America, providing replacement parts to wholesale distributors throughout the United States and Canada.

Achieving Equal Employment Opportunities for people with criminal records, thereby transforming communities and generations.

We take pride in helping our customers with solutions that will provide them with lowest cost to own compressed air systems.

Rootstock is a cloud-based ERP system built on the Salesforce Platform. Designed by and for manufacturers, Rootstock helps you accelerate your company’s digital transformation. By combining with Salesforce CRM, Rootstock offers one native platform with a singular customer view to grow your business.

SERVPRO TEAM ZUBRICKI provides local & national emergency cleaning and restoration services and can respond quickly to any large-scale disaster in all 50 states.

Disasters and emergencies strike without notice but we are prepared for the unpredictable.

Call Jennifer Levin 630.200.2551 and prepare an Emergency Response Profile unique to your property now.

It’s harder than ever to stay abreast of changing environmental compliance regulations. For busy manufacturing leaders with limited time and internal resources, SCS Engineers will help you understand and meet important environmental compliance regulations so you stay in compliance. We will help you anticipate your company’s changing needs and be the “Environmental” in your Environmental Health & Safety program for air, land and water.

With over 50 years of ERP experience, Epicor is the essential partner to the world’s most essential businesses. Our solutions are built with hands-on knowledge of the industries like yours that make, move, and sell the things everyone needs.

O’Shea Builders is a leading commercial construction-services provider in Illinois. Founded in 1900, we provide General Contracting, Construction Management, Design Build, Civil Construction, and Building Maintenance services.

BluSky Restoration Contractors, LLC is a full-service national restoration contractor with locations coast to coast.  We provide residential, commercial, industrial, governmental, and multifamily mitigation, restoration, renovation, environmental, and roofing services for properties damaged by water, fire, storms, and other disasters across the country.

As a catalyst for transforming the state of manufacturing, IMEC helps organizations optimize operating capacity, implement advanced product and process innovations, increase sales and enter new markets, and improve profitability.

ADP is now powering HRIS solutions for IMA members.  Informed by data and designed for people, ADP offers unmatched expertise, insights, and solutions with over 70 years of experience.  But many Illinois manufacturers may need services that go beyond that of a standard HR software platform. ADP can help streamlining your processes with human resources information systems (HRIS) from ADP and tackle HR, payroll and talent with ease. In additional optional dedicated service relationships provide experienced professionals who can help you deliver ROI and efficiencies exactly where you need them. ADP’s solutions provide stability by adapting to your ever-changing needs of manufacturing.

The Overture Group is a leading search and compensation consulting firm specialized in executive and professional positions in Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Operations and Technology serving the middle market.

PLS Safety provides superior occupational safety and health services to employers throughout North America.  Since 2001, we have helped our customers eliminate the potential for work-related injury and maximize productivity, by reducing unsafe acts and workflow interruptions.  Our results-oriented safety training, consulting, staffing and standby rescue services are customized to provide your company with the expert resources needed for the work you do.

With nearly 3,000 Manufacturing clients nationwide, Paycor is the first industry specialized HCM company with technology built to help solve the complex challenges manufacturers face. We tout a best-in-class recruiting tool, learning management system, compliance by state and city, automated blended overtime, shift differential calculations and more. Paycor’s market differentiating implementation process is designed to meet the needs of manufacturers, from the first phase of understanding your requirements through ongoing support.

The professional consulting team at LP Management Services is dedicated to providing quality operational and safety consultation services at all levels in critical and mixed-use facilities, manufacturing plants or healthcare facilities. We partner with financial institutions, property management companies and electrical/mechanical contractors to develop comprehensive loss prevention programs.

Jesus Dominguez has over 12 years of TWI delivery experience across the United States and Mexico, spanning companies in manufacturing and food to healthcare. He is certified in TWI Job Instruction, Job Relations, Job Safety and Job Methods and has partnered with clients to provide TWI training in English and Spanish.

Through his career at TWI Training Solutions, The TWI Institute, IMEC (Illinois MEP) and Sloan Valve Company to his present role as Owner and Training Consultant of JD Leadership Training, Jesus has delivered the TWI methodology, driving training protocol, open communication, and consistent work standards that enable world-class practices across organizations.

Jesus emphasizes the strong partnerships he develops across business stakeholders as a key component in ensuring the sustained success of TWI within the organizations he has supported.

How do you help your employees win?

First by helping them cope with constraints and baggage like on-going family problems, finances, stress, illness, grief, care of aging parents, rebellious teenagers, conflicts with co-workers and many other personal problems they bring to work each day. Sometimes life throws everyone a curve ball and the sudden crisis event can also paralyze and immobilize people.

Our Chaplains, who visit over 4,100 worksites weekly, are finding more and more employees have no real relationships of trust and confidence. Remember: When your people Win, you Win! Why not explore how we help hundreds of thousands of employees Win in life every day? It could mean the difference of a Win, Draw or Loss next year in your company!

Hive Better is the first staffing firm to leverage community referrals. We know most hourly workers will get their next job through a personal connection. That’s why our technology transforms thousands of micro-communities into your recruiters.

All About Personnel is a leading agency specializing in recruiting and staffing services tailored specifically for the manufacturing industry. With a keen focus on understanding the unique needs and challenges of manufacturing businesses, we excel in sourcing top talent to meet production demands efficiently. Our expertise ensures that clients receive qualified candidates who possess the skills and experience necessary to thrive in manufacturing environments. From entry level to professional placements.

Inland is one of the nation’s largest commercial real estate and finance groups. As a business incubator, we specialize in creating, developing and supporting member companies that provide commercial real estate-related services and alternative investment funds, including limited partnerships, institutional funds and non-listed and listed REITs, and real estate services for both Inland member companies and third parties.

DCC Marketing, is a women-owned, full-service integrated marketing and communications agency. Our marketing strategies drive sales by connecting our client’s brand value to the needs’ of their client’s target audience. We work with clients from building their brand strategy to delivering tactical marketing needs including, video, social and digital advertising. Our business model is centered on implementing strategies and ideas that drive business goals. We are an extension of our clients’ marketing teams and measure our success through their success.

Come to Prairie States and you’ll enjoy cutting edge health benefits administration with a human touch. It’s a difference you’ll notice the very first moment we start working together and one you’ll wonder how you ever did without.

As leaders in the EMC industry since 1954, we at Elite take pride in the capabilities of our chambers and equipment, as well as, pride in our staff’s depth of knowledge and dedication to our customers.

Cushman & Wakefield’s industrial real estate team has a deep understanding of the industry and the specific needs of industrial occupiers. They can help you navigate the complex process of leasing, buying, or developing industrial space, and they can work with you to develop a customized solution that meets your specific needs and budget.

TAG owns prime Champaign County land for development, lease, and sale, with a portfolio concentrated in residential, commercial, industrial, and farm holdings. Over the years, we’ve worked diligently to weather fluctuating markets and real-estate trends—always with our firm’s legacy, and our community’s success, in mind.

WCR Enterprises offers comprehensive consulting services focused on economic development incentives, government relations, business development, corporate site selection and bond financing.

Chris has over two decades of experience representing forward-thinking energy market participants, both individually and in coalitions, develop, defend and improve the structures for effective and efficient competition in the energy markets.

Sundog is the only technology firm in Northern Illinois having over 30 years of experience, with 100% of our engineers being industry certified, that delivers the fastest response times by answering our phones live, and who offers month to month contracts backed by a 30 day, no questions asked money back guarantee. Organizations that engage us are concerned about the reliability of their technology, they are frustrated with the response times of their current IT provider, they have doubts if their data really is secure, compliant or even backed up, and they don’t believe the money they are spending is helping give them a competitive edge.

Globant is a digitally native company that helps organizations reinvent themselves and unleash their potential. We are the place where innovation, design, and engineering meet scale. We have more than 27,500 employees and are present in 30 countries across 5 continents, working for companies like Google, Electronic Arts, and Santander, among others. We were named a Worldwide Leader in AI Services (2023) and Worldwide Leader in CX Improvement Services (2020) by IDC MarketScape report. We are the fastest-growing IT brand and the 5th strongest IT brand globally (2024), according to Brand Finance.

Our Company, based in Verona (Italy), has been operating since 2000 in the safety of industrial machinery. We support leading companies in all the export procedures regarding compliance and certification of their products. Over the years AC&E has built a strong expertise in technical and legal field.

We are present in the countries that are strategically important for our customers: USA, Canada, Brazil, Spain Russia and China to provide a customer focus service.

AC&E North America is one of the top 13 field evaluation body (F.E.B.)accredited by IAS and one of the top 9 Field Inspection body accredited by SCC in Canada.

ONE STOP SOLUTION: a dedicated partner to guarantee compliance and safety of your machinery all over the world.

Custom Direct, Inc. is a full-service marketing agency which provides small to medium-sized manufacturers with innovative, brand building strategies and solutions. Our team partners with you, ambitious manufacturers, to assess and address your most complex marketing challenges, delivering an iterative, collaborative approach, with proven results. Our work spans both digital and traditional marketing services, including strategy, website design, SEO, SEM, social media management, catalog design and production, public relations, and trade show marketing.

Thinking of relocating or expanding your business? The Rockford Region offers the workforce, industrial sites and logistics to support your business needs to succeed. Join other leading companies which have made the Rockford Region a hub of innovation.

At the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce, we are focused on transforming the economy of Sangamon County. We represent more than 1,600 organizations that care about the progress of our community.

Established on November 4, 1902, as the Fox River Valley Manufacturer’s Association, now known as the Valley Industrial Association was founded “for the benefit and advantage for all concerned” manufacturers in the Aurora area.

Located at the heart of the U.S. transportation network, with access to six Class-I railroads, two multi-modal harbors, 4 U.S. interstates, and home to over 75 manufacturers and freight intensive operators, America’s Central Port is one of the largest freight hubs in the Midwest.

Effingham County has a lot to offer to relocate and expanding businesses. We have a positive business environment with a diversified economic base.  A quality workforce, low-cost utilities, training options, quality healthcare, a growing retail base and an overall low cost of doing business are just a few reasons many companies call Effingham County home.