Annual award winners

Kate Fischer, CWMF Marketing Coordinator, Les Engel, CMMA President, and Luke Vossen, CWMF Director of Operations

Central Minnesota Manufacturers Association (CMMA) recognizes, encourages, supports and celebrates excellence. To that end we recognize two outstanding members for their significant and long-standing support of, investments in, and contributions to CMMA in 2023.

These awards were created to celebrate the strong work, extra effort, and valuable outcomes achieved by our members. These awards set the bar high for our group and for these reasons we proclaim:

• Manufacturer of the Year 2023: CWMF Corporation
• Collaborator of the Year 2023: Clint Nelson

The Manufacturer of the Year award is presented to a member company to celebrate not only the company’s commitment to CMMA, but the betterment of manufacturing overall.

CWMF Corporation of Waite Park is a fourteen-year member of CMMA. This outstanding company has added value to CMMA and the manufacturing community in several ways:

• Actively attend and participate in CMMA meetings, fundraisers, and events
• Hosted in-person tours during Central MN Tour of Manufacturing in 2016, 2021, 2022, and 2023.

Clint Nelson, 2023 Collaborator of the Year, with Les Engel, CMMA President.

CWMF Corporation, led by CEO/President Carmie Mick, manufactures asphalt plant equipment, parts, service and solutions.

• Actively attends and participates in CMMA meetings and events
• Hosted in-person tours during Central MN Tour of Manufacturing in 2016, 2017, 2020, and 2021.
• Significant investors in and supporters of local FIRST Robotics and VEX Robotics programs, Cloud Technical & Community College (SCTCC) welding program and scholarships, St. Cloud Area Chamber of Commerce, and EPIC.

CMMA named Clint Nelson the 2023 CMMA Collaborator of the Year. CMMA President Les Engel recently presented Nelson with this well-earned award to celebrate not only his commitment to CMMA, but to the CMMA Golf Social, a project he has chaired for 12 years.

Nelson is a Certified Financial Planner and retirement plan advisor with Qualified Plan Advisors of Wayzata. Qualified Plan Advisors has been a member of CMMA since 2012.