Manufacturing

After five employees at the Palermo’s pizza plant in Milwaukee tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, Palermo Villa Inc. president and chief executive officer Giacomo Fallucca announced Friday that the company is closing the plant temporarily.

So far, 85 employees at the Patrick Cudahy plant in Cudahy have tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, according to the city of Cudahy Health Department.

New Berlin-based robotics integrator IAS Inc. plans to expand its headquarters at 5125 S. Towne Drive to meet increased customer demand.

ECM Industries acquired Ohio-based electrical connector manufacturer ILSCO, the company announced this week.

MaskForce can now manufacturer personal protective equipment at scale with the goal of producing as many as 10,000 masks a day, the organization recently announced.

Nearly half of the supply chain experts surveyed in the latest Marquette-ISM Report on Manufacturing expect business conditions to get worse in the next six months.

In another world, without a global pandemic, the late-February mass shooting at Molson Coors’ Milwaukee brewery might have been a major topic on the company’s first quarter earnings call.

Molson Coors Beverage Co. says the cost of reimbursing bars for untapped kegs and not being able to sell finished kegs soon enough will cost it around $50 million.

Dan Sinykin, president of Janesville-based Monterey Mills, decided his company had to act fast once he saw reports of nationwide PPE shortages as the fight against COVID-19 ramped up in mid-March. 

The City of Cudahy Health Department on Wednesday said that 503 people have been tested for COVID-19 from April 24 to 28 as part of an investigation of the coronavirus outbreak at the Patrick Cudahy meatpacking plant.