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Fewer manufacturers in the state expect their revenues, profits and spending to rise this year, according to a recent survey. The 2022 Wisconsin Manufacturing Report was commissioned by the Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing and Productivity in collaboration with WMEP...

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The Farwell Foundation today announced on Tuesday a $500,000 gift to the Urban League of Greater Madison in support of the Black Business Hub project. The Farwell Foundation is a charitable organization that is run by Samantha M. Weston, and funded by the unwavering...

A Middleton-based software company that makes an online survey platform for local governments has raised $14 million, according to a Monday announcement. The investment in Polco Inc. was led by Mercury Fund, an early-stage venture firm with locations in Houston and...

Wisconsin Medicine announced a new focus on overcoming national workforce shortages and building the healthcare workforce of the future. A significant donation from Verona-based Epic will kickstart the effort, allowing for the creation and expansion of programs to...

Generac Power Systems has acquired Blue Pillar, an Indiana-based industrial IoT software company that designs and manages products to enable distributed energy generation monitoring and control. Terms of the deal, which closed Monday, were not disclosed. In announcing...

Ghana-based Niche Cocoa is in the process of turning a 44,000-square-foot space at the Franklin Business Park into its first North American facility, local, state and national officials announced Tuesday. Niche will initially employ more than two dozen workers at the...

Scientists including UW-Madison researchers have developed a method for 3D printing a type of stainless steel that could help manufacturers reduce production costs. That’s according to an overview from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which...

Two of the top 16 finalists in this year's 'Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin' contest have connections to agriculture. The Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce and Johnson Financial Group are holding the competition for a sixth straight year to highlight the state's...

U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Marisa Lago joined Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation Secretary Missy Hughes and local officials today in welcoming Ghana-based Niche Cocoa to Wisconsin. The company is choosing to build its first North...

Venture Investors was part of a $30 million Series D financing round for Delphinus, the company announced today. The Detroit-based Delphinus, a medical imaging company, developed SoftVue, the first circular array transducer technology to help with dense breast...

Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), today announced the next cycle of funding from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) will provide more than $235 million for more than 150 local road and bridge projects in...

Lincolnshire, Illinois-based Nexus Pharmaceuticals, which opened a new facility in Pleasant Prairie last year, has a new president and CEO in Usman Ahmed. The manufacturer of specialty drugs announced Monday that Ahmed has replaced Mariam Darsot, who has been...

Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation, a maker of software and products used in production and automation across several manufacturing industries, will acquire Bronderslev, Denmark-based CUBIC, a manufacturer of enclosures for all types of electrical switchboards....

Dr. Nick Turkal, former CEO and president of Aurora Health Care and then Advocate Aurora Health, has taken on a new role as chief medical advisor at Pewaukee-based Lohman Technologies. Turkal left Advocate Aurora Health in 2019, a year after the merger of Downers...

DWD Chief Economist Dennis Winters expects manufacturing employment in Wisconsin to exceed pre-pandemic levels in the near future. In an interview Friday, Winters said it “might be a couple months” before that occurs. “The outstanding thing that we don’t know about...

Until recently, the University of Wisconsin-Madison had a successful program to compost discarded food. Starting in 2009, the university collected food scraps at campus cafeterias to send to the West Madison Agricultural Research Station for composting. In 2018, the...