Article: Mattracks grows with government export help; Small firm testifies at Senate hearing.(News)

Byline: Miles Moore

A small rubber vehicle track manufacturer has boosted its business enormously by taking advantage of the export guidance offered by the federal government, witnesses told a Senate subcommittee.

Karlstad, Minn.-based Mattracks Inc. began in 1992 with six employees and incorporated three years later, said Tom J. Wollin, Mattracks director of international and government sales. He testified at the Oct. 6 hearing reviewing export opportunities for small and medium-sized U.S. companies.

The firm employs about 50 and offers more than 40 different types of rubber track conversion systems to four-wheel-drive vehicles ranging from ...

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