Manufacturing

The Jor-Mac Company, a Lomira-based metal fabricator, has appointed Kelly Sayles as president.

Koss Corp., the Milwaukee-based inventor of world's first stereophone in 1958, said today it has revolutionized the design of the in-ear stereophone with the release of the Koss Interlocking in-ear stereophones.

Dorner Mfg. Corp. has partnered with Incline Equity Partners of Pittsburgh to assist in its growth plans. Rich Ryan, former COO of Dorner, has also been named the CEO of the company.

Milwaukee Area Technical College graduated 12 dislocated workers from an accelerated bilingual CNC program last week.

Dozens of plant workers at Milwaukee-based Palermo's Pizza are on strike and say the company has engaged in union-busting tactics as employees tried to form a union, according to Voces De La Frontera, an immigrant rights group and low wage worker center that is working with the Palermo's employees. The workers walked off the job 15 days ago.

Menomonee Falls-based ZBB Energy Corp., a developer of intelligent, renewable energy power platforms, announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 31.6 million shares of its common stock at a price to the public of 38 cents per share.

The Milwaukee office of Baker Tilly Capital, LLC, a mergers and acquisitions advisory firm and subsidiary of Baker Tilly Virchow Krause LLP, has completed the sale of Milwaukee-based Nature’s Protein Inc. to J. Strickland Company of Olive Branch, Miss.

The board of directors of Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation Inc. authorized the company to expend up to an additional $1 billion to repurchase shares of the company's common stock.

Wixon, a St. Francis flavorings manufacturer, will host its 20th annual Wixon Open on Saturday, July 14 at 7:30 a.m. at the Bristol Oaks Country Club in Bristol.

Johnson Controls Inc., the world's leading supplier of automotive batteries, participated in a signing ceremony in Tianjin, China, to announce a planned $200 million automotive battery plant, pending final approval.