The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Southeastern Wisconsin Chapter has announced the recipients of its 2012 National Philanthropy Day Awards.

Nashotah-based Dickten Masch Plastics (DMP), a thermoplastics and thermoset manufacturer with metal stamping and assembly capabilities, has acquired Nyloncraft Inc., a technical plastics manufacturer based in Mishawaka, Ind.

Merge Healthcare Inc., which operates dual headquarters in Hartland and Chicago, announced that its board of directors has retained Allen & Company LLC, a New York-based investment bank, to assist in exploring and evaluating a broad range of strategic alternatives, including, but not limited to, a sale of the company or a business combination.

Tailored Label Products Inc. of Menomonee Falls has acquired the label products division of Norcross, Ga.-based Stratix Corp.

Milwaukee's citywide approach to developing a sustainable solar market is being heralded this week as an international blueprint for success.

Richard Ryan, president and chief executive officer of Dorner Mfg. Corp. in Hartland, died in a motorcycle accident on Saturday, Sept. 8, while traveling in the western United States.

City officials vowed to keep hundreds of thousands of students safe when striking teachers hit the picket lines Monday and school district and teachers union leaders resumed negotiations on a contract that appeared close to being resolved over the weekend before the union announced both sides were too far apart to prevent the district's first strike in 25 years.

A stellar panel of executives from Milwaukee-area manufacturing companies will share their insights and best practices at the 2012 BizTimes Manufacturing Summit.

Open houses will be held in Milwaukee, Mequon and Racine to celebrate Manufacturing Day, a national event being held for the first time this year on Friday, Oct. 5.

Generac has acquired a former Briggs & Stratton facility in Jefferson.
The building is about 250,000 square feet and sits on an 18 acre lot at 900 N. Parkway.

Glendale-based Chameleon Brewing Company, subsidiary of Sprecher Brewing Company, has won an award for its Witty, a Belgian white wheat ale with spices.

One of my favorite pop quizzes for people outside Wisconsin, especially those who understand the tech-based economy, is to ask them to name the nation’s top five academic research universities. The answers invariably include the likes of Stanford, Yale and Harvard, but rarely does anyone outside the Midwest guess that UW-Madison is perennially on the list.