We’re in the business of protecting what’s valued and important to people – a.k.a. the insurance business. We serve individuals and businesses with a breadth of services and coverage, including business and personal insurance, employee benefits, surety and everything in between.

Loenbro actually operates several companies under our name. They include: Loenbro Industrial Construction, Loenbro Inspection Services, Loenbro Insulation, Loenbro Pipeline, Loenbro Oilfield Services, Loenbro Plumbing and Heating, Loenbro Instrumentation and Electrical, RDS Industrial Coatings.

NorthWestern Energy President and CEO Bob Rowe and team hosted 75 leaders in high-tech and manufacturing from across the state in their beautiful new building in Uptown Butte for the Montana High Tech Business Alliance’s reception and CEO Roundtable on June 20, 2016. This was the Alliance’s tenth event but our first in Butte.

Recruiting skilled workers is the #1 barrier to growth for Montana high-tech and manufacturing companies. At the Montana High Tech Business Alliance CEO Roundtable hosted by Yellowstone Bank in Billings, leaders emphasized the role of company culture in finding good people and keeping turnover low.

Yellowstone Bank hosted more than 70 guests for the Montana High Tech Business Alliance's reception and CEO Roundtable in Billings on April 21, 2016.

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Blackstone provides a community for young entrepreneurs to bounce their ideas off others to get feedback and to create workable, real-world strategies for success. The program offers services including coaching, tools, and grants.

A little over a year ago, Montana State University’s TechLink helped saved the lives of two American medical missionaries who were infected with the Ebola virus during the western Africa outbreak in 2014.

The high-tech sector expects to add 940-plus net new jobs in 2016 that pay average annual salaries of $57,000 – more than twice the median earning per Montana worker, according to the study.BBER Director Patrick Barkey said that the second annual study, commissioned by the Montana High Tech Business Alliance, serves as an important assessment of one of Montana’s fastest-growing and highest-paying industry clusters.

Few Montanans know that Israel – a country of around eight million people beset by frequent terrorist attacks and wars - is a global high-tech powerhouse. Israel is second only to Silicon Valley in the number of start-ups and venture capital investment.

Hallway conversations and “accidental meetings” happen frequently at the Montana Technology Enterprise Center (MonTEC) in Missoula, and that is one of the best parts of being located at the business and technology incubator across from the University of Montana on the Clark Fork River, according to Elke Govertsen, founder and publisher of Mamalode.Bumping into her colleagues at MonTEC -- who are making impacts in renewable chemistry, oil and gas analytical services, big data/e-discovery, pharmaceuticals, health care data analytics, publishing, and online video delivery – always inspires Govertsen.

At the Montana High Tech Business Alliance the stories we’re excited to tell in 2016 – about the state of the industry, high-growth companies, and scores of new employees hired - all point to a state on the rise.Here’s a sneak peek at five positive trends I see in the year ahead for Montana businesses.

There is often a mindset that technology companies thrive in major metropolitan centers – not in rural areas. But Doug Schust, the chief operating officer of Hagadone Digital, has found the opposite to be true.In 2013, Hagadone Digital, a powerhouse for digital marketing in the U.S. and Canada, expanded its operation to Kalispell, a town with a population of just over 20,000 located in northwestern Montana near Flathead Lake and Glacier National Park.

2015 has been a landmark year for high tech and manufacturing in Montana. It has also been a period of significant growth for the Montana High Tech Business Alliance. Here's a look back at six reasons to feel great about the state of Montana this year.

Five months ago, a Bozeman-based couple launched what is probably the most successful Kickstarter campaign in Montana history. Their goal was to raise $70,000 to take their desktop computer-driven mill into production. In the first hour they surpassed that goal.

Access to capital is one of the biggest barriers to growth for Montana’s high tech and manufacturing firms. As we learned from the Alliance's CEO Roundtable on financing business growth, finding money isn't always easy and often involves using multiple resources over the life of a company.

Access to capital is the second biggest barrier to growth for Montana’s high tech and manufacturing firms, according to a Montana High Tech Business Alliance survey conducted in February 2015.

Montana’s business community got a huge boost in May when Next Frontier Capital, a Bozeman-based venture capital firm, announced the initial closing of its inaugural $20 million fund.Founder and Managing Partner Will Price spoke on the Montana High Tech Business Alliance’s Big Sky Innovation panel at the Montana High Tech Jobs Summit in September.