Public Tours—October 19 through Friday, October 21 Public Tours will be offered at a variety of manufacturing facilities. Tour Guidelines
People must register through the Chamber Office by calling 651-388-4719 or email frontdesk@redwingchamber.comto attend, prior to all tours.
Please arrive 15 minutes prior to tour time, to allow for check in at locations. Tours will begin on time!
All tours are limited to a maximum of 25 people.
Tours are FREE and open to the public.
Tours are one hour in length.
Closed toe shoes (no high heels) must be worn on all tours.
No cell phones and/or pictures or videos are allowed during the tours.
Photo ids may be required.
Must be at least 18 years of age.
You can go on as many tours as your schedule allows.
Wednesday, October 19—Public Tours 1PM-2PM Minnesota State College Southeast—Welding Lab & Future CNC/Industrial Maintenance Area 308 Pioneer Road Here’s your chance to tour the new welding labs and future CNC/Industrial Maintenance area. Classes will be in full swing and instructors will be available to answer questions and provide details.
1PM—2PM SCS Elevator Products 310 Cannon River Avenue North SCS is a leader in providing products to the Elevator Industry including design support, engineering, mold building and contract manufacturing. SCS utilizes a broad depth of manufacturing capabilities in Plastic Injection Molding, Die Casting, Metal Stamping, Decorating and Assembly.
Thursday, October 20—Public Tours 10AM—11AM ProAct 204 Mississippi Avenue ProAct is a nonprofit organization which provides individualized life enhancing vocational and personal growth opportunities for people with disabilities and other challenges. Partnering with businesses for over 40 years, they provide customized services to support employment needs, as well as product assembly and packaging via competitive pricing, quality assurance guarantee and exceptional customer service. ProAct ERecycling Services collects electronics and household items for disassembly and recycling for business and residential customers.
1PM—2PM MACTECH 4079 Pepin Avenue #4 MACTECH is the world's foremost provider of on-site machining services. Mactech provides both products and on-site services for major industries worldwide including petro-chemical, pulp and paper, power generation and ship-building.
1PM—2PM Minnesota State College Southeast—Welding Lab & Future CNC/Industrial Maintenance Area 308 Pioneer Road Here’s your chance to tour the new welding labs and future CNC/Industrial Maintenance area. Classes will be in full swing and instructors will be available to answer questions and provide details.
Friday, October 21—Public Tours 10AM—11AM Hobgoblin Music/Stoney End Harps 920 Highway 19 Boulevard Hobgoblin is a family-owned business based in a 1920’s barn that was restored in 2001. They’ve been making harps for 29+ years and over 7,500 instruments have found homes in every state and province and numerous foreign countries. Hobgoblin also has a retail store and hosts concerts, plays, weddings, and local community events in the barn, plus festivals and weddings.
10AM-11AM Red Wing Shoe Company—Plant 2 135 Cannon River Avenue For over a century Red Wing purpose-built footwear has been at the spearhead of innovation in the standard of excellence for work boots. Red Wing products are proven to perform and outlast. Behind each pair of shoes exists over a century of experience.
1PM-2PM Mayo Clinic Health System in Red Wing 701 Hewitt Boulevard Mayo Clinic Health System is dedicated to meeting the needs of patients by inspiring hope and contributing to their health and well-being by providing the best care to every patient and they do this through integrated clinical practice, education, and research. This tour focuses on technology and healthcare and highlights the lab, radiology department and inpatient ICU, including the teleICU with Mayo Clinic in Rochester if available (pending patient care). This is a rare opportunity to see what is behind the scenes and the high level technology that goes into taking care of our patients.
