Manufacturing

Racine-based Modine Manufacturing Co. reported third quarter net earnings of $4.6 million, or 10 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $12.8 million, or 26 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

Menomonee Falls-based Actuant Corp. announced it has reached a definitive agreement to sell its Electrical Segment to Sentinel Capital Partners for $258 million in cash, subject to working capital and other closing adjustments.

Caterpillar Inc. has announced it will close its Kilgore, Texas, plant and move some of the work to South Milwaukee by the end of the year.

Speculators wondering about which companies are bidding to acquire Allen Edmonds Shoe Corp. can cross Milwaukee-based Weyco Group Inc. off of the list of potential suitors.
 

Milwaukee-area manufacturing activity continued to grow in October, according to the latest report from the Institute for Supply Management-Milwaukee.

With the end of the Iraq War and the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan defense contractor Oshkosh Corp. today reported third quarter net income of $36.3 million, or 41 cents per share, down from $78.9 million, or 86 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

Milwaukee-area manufacturing activity continued to grow in October, according to the latest report from the Institute for Supply Management-Milwaukee.

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Caterpillar Inc. announced it will close its Kilgore, Texas, plant and move some of the work to South Milwaukee by the end of the year.

Germantown-based Cambridge Major Laboratories Inc. (CML), a global leader in pharmaceutical API development and manufacturing, and AAIPharma Services Corp. today announced the appointment of Patrick Walsh as the chief executive officer of the merged company.