Industries

Menomonee Falls-based Actuant Corp. announced it has reached a definitive agreement to sell its Electrical Segment to Sentinel Capital Partners for $258 million in cash, subject to working capital and other closing adjustments.

Rockline Industries, one of the world's largest private-label manufacturers of consumer wet wipes and coffee filters, has announced that it will open a state-of-the-art Innovation and Technical Center adjacent to its corporate headquarters in Sheboygan.

Caterpillar Inc. has announced it will close its Kilgore, Texas, plant and move some of the work to South Milwaukee by the end of the year.

Speculators wondering about which companies are bidding to acquire Allen Edmonds Shoe Corp. can cross Milwaukee-based Weyco Group Inc. off of the list of potential suitors.
 

Milwaukee-area manufacturing activity continued to grow in October, according to the latest report from the Institute for Supply Management-Milwaukee.

L.T. Hampel Corp. has earned an award from the Society of Plastics Engineers for its Calf-Tel dairy calf housing product.

If Wisconsin, or any other state, wanted to adopt an over-arching strategy for the health care of its citizens, there is a proven one available.

The National Ace Hardware store building, located at 1303 N. 4th St. just north of the Park East corridor in downtown Milwaukee, is for sale.

Don’t forget to turn your clocks back an hour this weekend.

Milwaukee-based Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc. said today its public offering of 4.8 million Class A common shares has been priced at $56 per share.