Manufacturing

Seven Chippewa Valley start-up businesses are vying for cash and perhaps a low-interest loan as part of the Eau Claire Area Economic Development Corporation's "Create Your Own Business Plan" competition. The winner will be announced in September. ...

By the year 2025, Gov. Jim Doyle wants the state to produce 25 percent of its electricity and transportation fuel from renwewable sources. He outlined his goals in two campaign stops, including one at Virent Energy Systems in Madison....

What do you get when you combine a producer of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging products with an experienced distributor of medical instrumentation? With any luck, you find a way to capture a growing market in presurgical brain mapping applications. ...

The shareholders of Bruker BioSciences, the parent of Bruker AXS in Madison, have approved the purchase of its affiliate company, Bruker Optics, Inc. The move should allow Bruker BioSciences to expand its market reach into a number of scientific and medical fields....

With an eye toward paying down debt and future acquisitions, Milwaukee's Brady Corp. has raised $137 million in an offering of common stock. The company, which manufacutres signs and labels used in cell phones and PDAs, sold 4 million shares valued at $36 per share....

The next state budget and the ensuing legislative session will be a watershed for Wisconsin. The building blocks have been put in place to move the Wisconsin economy in the right direction; we cannot afford to stop now....