Manufacturing

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett’s Manufacturing Partnership celebrated 10 new graduates of a training program at Herker Industries in Menomonee Falls last week.

David York has been named southeast regional account manager at the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership. He has worked at...

Johnson Controls hosted a Green Jobs Day event on Friday at the company's headquarters, 5757 N. Green Bay Ave. in Glendale.

The Metal Service Center Institute and the organization’s Wisconsin chapter will host “A Manufacturing Summit: Closing the Divide Between Jobs, Policy and Growth,” on Wednesday, August 8, starting at 5 p.m. at Hilton Garden Inn Milwaukee Park Place, 11600 West Park Place in Milwaukee.

Harley-Davidson Inc. has eliminated 125 positions in its IT department as it outsources some information technology work to Infosys Inc.

Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation Inc. reported fiscal third quarter profit of $190.7 million, up 6 percent compared to $179.5 million in the previous fiscal third quarter.

Evansville, Ind.-based Accuride Corp. announced that its Gunite business unit is consolidating North American production into the Rockford, Ill., facility where the unit is based.

Defense spending continues to bolster Oshkosh Corp. The company reported that its fiscal third quarter net income was up 10.3 percent to $75.7 million and that its net sales for the quarter were up 7.6 percent to $2.176 billion.

Racine-based Modine Manufacturing Co. announced that it has completed the acquisition of Surrey, B.C.-based Geofinity Manufacturing. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Neenah-based Bemis Company Inc. reported that its net income fell 24 percent to $42.3 million and its net sales fell 3.5 percent to $1.32 billion during its fiscal second quarter.