Business View Magazine | December 2019

132 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2019 AT A GLANCE THE IKONICS CORPORATION WHAT: An international leader in the development of imaging technologies WHERE: Duluth, Minnesota WEBSITE: www.ikonics.com screen printers to this day,” says Chief Operations Officer, Ken Hegman. “It’s a large part of our business and we have many loyal distributors that sell our products in countries around the world.” Over the years, the company continued to innovate and expand its product lines. In the early ‘90s, it began offering ultraviolet, light- sensitive film and sand carving products for the decorative engraving industry. In 2002, I KONICS Corporation, based in Duluth, Minnesota, was originally founded in 1952 as a screen print company called ChromaGlo that printed labels for manufacturer’s lawn equipment. In 1982, ChromaGlo changed its name to Chromaline after developing novel photo-chemical products for screen printers. Chromaline added the manufacturing of photo emulsions and photochemistry for other screen printers in the marketplace. “We continue to supply