Manufacturing

What began as a seemingly simple labeling issue may lead to the closure of a popular Milwaukee-based small business.

Menomonee Falls-based Magenetek, Inc. today reported first quarter net income of $1 million, or 31 cents per share, up from $472,000, or 14 cents per share, in the first quarter of 2013.

Milwaukee-based Douglas Dynamics, Inc. today reported first quarter net income of $1.6 million, or 7 cents per share, up from a first quarter 2013 net loss of $3.4 million, or a 15 cents loss per share.

Houston-based Tall Tree Foods has announced the acquisition of Milwaukee-based Klement Sausage Co. Inc.

Menomonee Falls-based MD Design & Automation is moving all of its operations to a new facility it is purchasing in West Bend.

Glendale-based Johnson Controls today announced a new partnership with the University of Wisconsin- Madison.

Wisconsin companies that export products or services globally or would like to learn how to export are invited to send executives to attend the Wisconsin International Trade Conference to be held on Tuesday, May 13, at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee.

Milwaukee-area manufacturing activity stalled in April after growing in March, according to a new report from the Institute for Supply Management-Milwaukee.

Spanish train manufacturer Talgo Inc. has notified the City of Milwaukee that it will be terminating its lease and moving out of its Century City facility on the north side, taking with it two trains built for the State of Wisconsin that the state has refused to pay for.

Waukesha-based Generac Holdings Inc. reported first quarter net income of $34.7 million, or 50 cents per share, down from $50.7 million, or 73 cents per share, for the same period of 2013.