DULUTH, Minn., Feb. 14, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- IKONICS Corporation (Nasdaq:IKNX), a Duluth based imaging technology company, announced record sales for 2010 of $16,517,000, a 9% increase over 2009 and earnings of $1,114,000 or $0.56 per share compared to a loss of $0.16 per share in 2009. The 2009 loss was caused by the write-off of an investment in Imaging Technologies International in the third quarter of 2009.