Manufacturing

Employers in the metropolitan Milwaukee area expect to hire at a vigorous pace in the third quarter, according to the latest ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey.

ZBB Energy Corp., a Menomonee Falls-based developer of intelligent, renewable energy power platforms and hybrid vehicle control systems, announced that president and chief executive officer Eric Apfelbach has been invited for the second consecutive year to serve the Clinton Global Initiative as a member of the Renewable & Distributed Energy Working Group, which met Friday.

Cudahy-based Roadrunner Transportation Systems Inc. has opened an outbound service center Kansas City, Mo., expanding the company’s footprint to include Kansas, Nebraska and western Missouri.

Rust-Oleum to plans to invest $1.3 million to upgrade its Pleasant Prairie plant expand its small batch spray paint production. The expansion will create 54 new jobs.

Employees at Caterpillar's South Milwaukee plant were notified Friday, June 14, that planned layoffs of 260 employees would go into effect on Monday, June 24.

Rust-Oleum to plans to invest $1.3 million to upgrade its Pleasant Prairie plant expand its small batch spray paint production.
The expansion will create 54 new jobs.

Milwaukee-based Rexnord Corp. today announced that its board of directors has determined that the firm’s best alternative is to remain as an independent, publicly traded company.

The United Steelworkers (USW) today said that members of Local 1343 ratified a new, six year contract at Caterpillar Inc.’s South Milwaukee plant.

The effort to establish Milwaukee as a global hub of freshwater research, technology and innovation received another boost today when Kikkoman Foods Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Kikkoman Corp., announced that it will make a $1 million contribution to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to, “advance the study of safe and sustainable drinking water.”

Husco International announced today it is embarking on a multi-year, $45 million capital expansion project at its Wisconsin facilities in Waukesha and Whitewater, an endeavor that is expected to create more than 150 permanent new jobs in the state by 2015.