Manufacturing

Over three years after initially unveiling plans to spin off GE HealthCare as a standalone company, parent company General Electric Co. announced this week a new timeline for the separation.

At the BizTimes Media Next Generation Manufacturing Summit, manufacturing company leaders will talk about the challenges they have faced in recent years and how they diagnosed the issues, identified what was within their control, and found solutions to move forward.

The Kohler Co. board of directors has elected chief executive officer and president David Kohler to serve as board chair and CEO.

Utah-based freeze-dried food company Thrive Foods has leased a new 341,000-square-foot industrial building in Oak Creek and plans to establish operations there.

Mooresville, North Carolina-based Pink Energy, an energy efficiency company providing customers with solar panels, has filed a lawsuit against Town of Genesee-based Generac Power Systems, alleging Generac has been providing the company with failing parts that have malfunctioned and burned or melted.

Herb Kohler, who died Saturday, was a man of many dimensions, a genius businessman who grew his company’s revenues...

As a tribute to Herb Kohler's incredible career and life, the vision he had for Kohler Co. and the impact he made on the state, here are portions of that 2007 interview:

Herbert V. Kohler Jr., one of Wisconsin’s most iconic business leaders who led and transformed the Kohler Co., founded by his grandfather, into a global giant and developed golf courses in Sheboygan County that established the state as an internationally-known golf destination died Saturday in Kohler at the age of 83, the company announced today.

Milwaukee-based J. Jeffers & Co. has dropped plans to purchase the corporate headquarters of Racine-based Twin Disc.

Construction and warehouse equipment manufacturer Wildeck Inc. has submitted plans to the city of Waukesha to repurpose the 13.89-acre former Eaton Corp. manufacturing site at 1900 E. North Ave.