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GE Healthcare, through its GE healthymagination Fund, has invested $20 million in Ornim Inc., an Israeli developer of a muscle and tissue monitor.

The Tammy-Tommy show in Wisconsin for the right to be the “51st U.S. senator” promises to be as defining as the Obama-Biden vs. Romney-Ryan run for the presidency. Both will be hard core fights about the ways and means of paying for different levels of federal government.

American Pasteurization Company, a Milwaukee-based high pressure processing company that serves the food manufacturing industry, will open a second facility in Sacramento, Calif.

The International Trade Administration (ITA) announced that Wisconsin merchandise exports increased 8 percent in the first half of 2012 compared with the same period in 2011, growing from $10.8 billion to $11.7 billion.

InnoWare Paper Company, a paper tableware manufacturer in Menomonee Falls, will close its doors on May 1. About 100 workers will be dislocated.

Sheboygan Falls-based Johnsonville Sausage is recalling select some packages of Johnsonville Turkey Sausage with Cheddar Cheese.

Glendale-based Johnson Controls Inc. on Friday welcomed the Chinese 1,000 Environment-Friendly Youth Ambassadors and the Center for Environmental Education and Protection.

Milwaukee frozen pizza manufacturer Palermo Villa Inc. on Friday expressed a desire to move forward with a stalled union election at the company.

The Oak Creek branch of PPG Industries, a Pennsylvania-based coatings manufacturing company, has contributed more than $45,000 in grants to community organizations and schools this year.

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