Manufacturing

The Kenosha Area Business Alliance (KABA) and the Kenosha Area Chamber of Commerce will recognize seven local companies and one individual for their success on Thursday, Nov. 7.

Milwaukee-based solar panel manufacturer Helios USA has closed, and about 24 employees have been laid off.

Glendale-based Johnson Controls Inc., a diversified global industrial company in the building and automotive industries, today held a signing ceremony with the Shanghai Hongqiao Linkong Economic Zone for its new China corporate headquarters.

For the second consecutive year, industrial employment in Wisconsin posted a gain, according to the 2014 Wisconsin Manufacturers Register, an industrial directory published annually by Manufacturers' News Inc. (MNI) of Evanston, Ill. MNI reports Wisconsin gained 3,010 manufacturing jobs from July 2012 to July 2013, or about 1 percent.

3-D printing is the next disruptive technology.

U.S. employers are more optimistic about the final quarter of 2013 than they have been in any fourth quarter since the start of the Great Recession, but Wisconsin employers are lagging behind their national counterparts in the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.

Economic indicators in metro Milwaukee posted a solid July performance, according to a monthly report by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce.

Tesla Motors will install a supercharging station for electric vehicles at the Pleasant Prairie Premium Outlets as part of its nationwide rollout of charging stations for its car owners.

It wasn't easy, but Keith Wandell has turned the tide at Harley-Davidson.

Glendale-based Johnson Controls Inc. has named William Jackson executive vice president of the company's newly created Corporate Development function.