Manufacturing

Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation, a maker of software and products used in production and automation across several manufacturing industries, announced this week the promotion of Robin Saitz to chief marketing officer and vice president of global marketing.

Milwaukee-based Midwest Products & Engineering Inc. (MPE), a designer and contract manufacturer for medical and technology OEMs, named David Wierzbicki as chief financial officer Wednesday. Wierzbicki replaces Thomas Groble, who is retiring after being with the company since 2011.

Milwaukee-based Sensient Technologies Corp., a manufacturer of colors, flavors and other specialty ingredients, announced Wednesday its acquisition of Gebze, Turkey-based Endemix Dogal Maddeler A.Ş. (Endemix).  

Ghana-based Niche Cocoa is in the process of turning a 44,000-square-foot space at the Franklin Business Park into its first North American facility, local, state and national officials announced Tuesday.

Generac Power Systems has acquired Blue Pillar, an Indiana-based industrial IoT software company that designs and manages products to enable distributed energy generation monitoring and control.

Cudahy-based metal fabrication shop CR Industries Inc. has been acquired by a trio of investors, a group that includes two former leaders of Cudahy-based metal fabrication company Lucas-Milhaupt, Inc.

Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation, a maker of software and products used in production and automation across several manufacturing industries, will acquire Bronderslev, Denmark-based CUBIC, a manufacturer of enclosures for all types of electrical switchboards.

Chicago-based brewery incubator Pilot Project Brewing, which is in the midst of establishing operations in Milwaukee, has named Todd Haug as chief innovation officer.

After two down months, the southeastern Wisconsin manufacturing sector returned to growth in September, according to the latest Marquette-ISM Report on Manufacturing.

In an ideal world, manufacturing companies would see growth throughout the business. Revenues would grow, profits would increase and...