Manufacturing

Menomonee Falls-based ZBB Energy Corp. recently announced that Bradley Hansen has been appointed to the position of chief executive officer and president. Former CEO Eric Apfelbach, who had served in the role since 2010, will become the vice chairman of the board.

JACQUET Midwest has installed a dual head 5-axis Jet Edge EDGE X-5 waterjet cutting system at its Racine metal processing facility.

An administrative law judge from the International Trade Commission recently determined that technology company Garmin International Inc. violated section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 by importing and selling SideVü sonars, which the judge found infringe a Racine-based Johnson Outdoors Inc. side scan sonar patent used in certain Humminbird fishfinders.

From casserole delivery to malt vinegars fermented with craft beers, this year’s top food business concepts for the Hottest Kitchen Entrepreneur Challenge are all about adding a new twist to classic flavors.

Rexnord Corp. may receive $1.9 million from the city of Milwaukee to further assist in the relocation of its Zurn Industries LLC subsidiary from Pennsylvania to Milwaukee’s Reed Street Yards.

Milwaukee-based Metal Forms Corp. is seeking a $330,000 loan from the Milwaukee Economic Development Corp. The proposed loan, which is up for approval on Tuesday, would help the 106-year-old manufacturer purchase $825,000 worth of new robotic equipment to automate and expand its manufacturing processes.

Pewaukee-based TLX Technologies LLC has hired Jason Busalacchi as an inside sales representative. Busalacchi, a recent MBA graduate from Concordia University, brings experience in new business development and customer satisfaction in highly specialized markets.

In this blog, I’ve talked at various times about collaboration, risk and technology, but not together in the same thought.

ER Wagner Manufacturing Co. Inc. was established in 1900 after ER Wagner wrote a letter to A.O. Smith in 1899 offering to purchase the baby carriage business from him.

A Milwaukee area firm plans to move its corporate headquarters to a 158,000-square-foot industrial building that MSI General Corp. plans to build in Menomonee Falls.