Ionic Technology Group is among 26 private Canadian businesses to be awarded for their overall business performance.
The Sudbury-based mining service firm has received a Canadian Business Excellence Award from Excellence Canada, a national corporation that assists private businesses in continuous quality improvement.
To be eligible, Canadian-owned and controlled companies must have been in operation for three years and have annual revenues of more than $1 million.
Applicants are then evaluated in three performance areas including customer service, employee engagement, and innovation.
Winners will be celebrated during a virtual awards ceremony on June 9.
Ionic, which is based in the Sudbury community of Lively, was the only business from Northern Ontario to be included on the list.
The company serves as the parent banner under which a number of companies operate: Ionic Mechatronics, Black Rock Engineering, Variant Mining Technologies, Synaptic Technologies, Ionic Automation, and Ionic Technologias in Chile.
Together, they provide various engineering services for clients in the metals processing, mining and mineral processing, oil and gas, pulp and paper, medical pharmaceutical, and automotive industries.