Manufacturing

Employment levels throughout greater Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the United States are expected to continue shifting positively during the second quarter of 2013, according to the newest employment outlook survey released by ManpowerGroup.

The Milwaukee Brewers and Johnson Controls Inc. announced a multi-year extension of their current marketing partnership, which includes the naming rights to the Johnson Controls Stadium Club, the fine dining area inside Miller Park formerly known as the NYCE Stadium Club.

Milwaukee-based mining equipment manufacturer Joy Global Inc. announced that Michael W. Sutherlin, president and chief executive officer, plans to retire at the end of this year.

The union representing workers at Caterpillar Inc.'s South Milwaukee plant has asked Milwaukee Area Technical College to stop training salaried and management personnel for production jobs.

As the heat of a fire started raising the temperatures on the computer systems at the Echo Lake Foods plant in Burlington on Jan. 30, technicians at Xenitel, a Waukesha information technology (IT) service company, took quick action to preserve the plant's data.

The Vollrath Co. LLC in Sheboygan is reshoring some of its production from China because it has become less expensive to manufacture one of its products here.

ZBB Energy Corp., a Menomonee Falls-based developer of intelligent, renewable energy power platforms and hybrid vehicle control systems, today announced it has entered into an agreement in which Aspire Capital Fund LLC, a Chicago-based limited liability company, has committed to purchasing up to $10 million of ZBB Energy common stock over the next two years.

As the heat of a fire started raising the temperatures on the computer systems at the Echo Lake Foods plant in Burlington on Jan. 30, technicians at Xenitel, a Waukesha information technology (IT) service company, took quick action to preserve the plant's data.

ABC Supply Holding Corp., the parent company of Beloit-based American Builders & Contractors Supply Co. Inc., has entered into a definitive agreement to redeem all of the shares held by its minority shareholders, an investor group led by Advent International.

Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce read with great interest the recent Milwaukee Biz Blog by History Professor Marc Levine from UW-Milwaukee.