Manufacturing

Menomonee Falls-based Actuant Corp. reported fiscal third quarter net earnings of $50.6 million, or 70 cents per share, up from a loss of $93 million, or $1.24 lost per share, in the third quarter of 2013.

Gardner Denver Inc., which is in the process of moving its corporate headquarters from suburban Philadelphia to Milwaukee, is already considering future expansion plans here, according to Luis de Leon, chief executive officer of the firm's Industrials Group.

Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson Motor Co. has introduced its first electric motorcycle, Project LiveWire.

Spanish wind and solar product manufacturer Ingeteam Inc. hasn't created jobs in Milwaukee at the pace it expected, which is due in part to slow growth in the renewable markets it targeted.

Ingeteam Inc. is seeking five more years to create the 275 jobs it promised in return for a loan from the City of Milwaukee.

Sussex-based The Industrial Controls Co. has acquired the assets of Downers Grove, Ill.-based Control Masters Inc.

For the third year in a row, manufacturers that make everything from plastics coatings and steel tubes to custom hardware and interactive kiosks hold the most spots – 15 – on Council of Small Business Executives Future 50 list for 2014.

Chicago-based MillerCoors LLC, which brews much of its beer in Milwaukee, reported it reduced water usage by 9.1 percent per barrel in 2013.

Fontarome Chemical Inc., a flavor, fragrance and pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer that had operated in St. Francis, has been cited for 23 safety and health violations—including seven willful, one repeat and 15 serious—by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The company has been placed in OSHA's Severe Violator Enforcement Program, and the citations carry proposed penalties of $449,680, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Wednesday.

Milwaukee-based Joy Global Inc., a manufacturer of mining equipment and the parent company of P&H Mining Equipment Inc., has announced its plans to establish a warehouse and distribution center operation in a 300,000-square-foot building in Oak Creek.