Local entrepreneur Rick Peters is a devoted Indianapolis Colts fan, but he jumped out of his living room recliner on the evening of Nov. 13 when he saw an ESPN report on Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning’s bad ankle. Manning hurt the ankle in a loss to Indianapolis and aggravated it in the subsequent two games.

Standing in front of his television, Peters, founder of Carmel-based Ultra Athlete LLC—a small manufacturing firm with a growing reputation for state-of-the-art ankle braces—figured he could do for Manning what he had done for numerous athletes before.

Not only are Ultra Athlete’s products designed and developed in Carmel, the injection molding for the plastic shells are done at Noblesville-based Metro Plastics Technologies Inc. and they are manufactured by Fortville-based Genesis Plastics Welding.

“Making the product locally helps us better handle quality control,” Peters said. “Supporting other Indiana companies also feels like the right thing to do.”

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