Small and midsize manufacturers need and want cool tech, too. Since founding St. Paul-based ManufacturingPower.com in 2017, industrial supply veteran Mike Franz has been helping these makers connect with supply sources for more than 10 million industrial components. In 2023, he’ll be introducing a mobile app called iNSUPPLi, which will make these connections even easier to make. It’s intended to help industrial supply users find local distributors that typically don’t appear high up in Google searches but can offer greater convenience and better pricing, thus boosting their competitiveness.

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