Manufacturing

President and CEO Jim Kettinger has become shareholder of Kenosha-based IEA Inc. and merged the firm into a new company called Engendren.

American Pasteurization Company, a Milwaukee food toll processor, has partnered with Livermore, Calif.-based The National Food Lab, a food and beverage consulting and testing company, to expand its capabilities.

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.

Modest gains were posted in metro area economic indicators for April as 12 of 23 monthly indicators tracked by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) improved from year-ago levels.

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.

Joe Schick of Quad/Graphics Inc. has some suggestions for how transform the U.S. Postal Service.