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Husco International announced today it is embarking on a multi-year, $45 million capital expansion project at its Wisconsin facilities in Waukesha and Whitewater, an endeavor that is expected to create more than 150 permanent new jobs in the state by 2015.

National innovation speaker Adam Hartung will host an innovation workshop for manufacturing executives on Wednesday, June 26 from 9...

A Sheboygan man has been charged with stealing money from his employer, Kohler Co.
 

Orange City, Iowa-based Diamond Vogel Paints recently purchased a 48,000-square-foot building in Sheboygan Falls for $1.15 million.

The UWM Real Estate Foundation Inc. will receive a $205,850 Brownfield Program award from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) to assist in the environmental remediation at the site of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's new Innovation Campus in Wauwatosa.
 

Curtis Industries, a Milwaukee-based division of Powers Holdings, announced it has acquired Tri-Mag, Inc., which manufactures standard and customized power supplies.
 

A partnership with the U.S.-China Chamber of Commerce, the Changzhou Municipal Government, Asia- America Chamber of Commerce, World Trade Center Wisconsin and the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce will present "Changzhou Meets The USA: A Seminar on Bilateral Trade & Investment."
 

Menomonee Falls-based Actuant Corp. announced that its board of directors has authorized a plan to sell the company's Electrical segment.
 

Sturtevant metal fabrication company Racine Metal-Fab Ltd. unveiled its new 75,000-square-foot facility at an open house on Thursday, June 6.

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