Salem businesses making tortillas, leading the future of robotics and helping agricultural companies process their products earned top honors at an economic development awards ceremony last week.

The annual awards given by the Strategic Economic Development Corporation, better known as SEDCOR, recognized manufacturing, agriculture and entrepreneurship across Marion, Polk and Yamhill counties.

The awards are part of SEDCOR’s work to make the mid-Willamette Valley “a region known as a great place to start or grow a business, an equitable and inclusive business community and a region with unique strengths in agriculture, food production, manufacturing and technology,” said Erik Andersson, SEDCOR’s president, at the Sept. 12 event.

Here are the local winners.

West Coast Companies – Agri-Bu

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