WisBusiness

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Jim Popp, president and CEO of Johnson Financial Group.  Popp offers his perspective on the state’s economic rebound, and touches on the impact of supply chain issues on businesses in Wisconsin. He says the financial service provider’s customers are “chugging along and doing well” amid...

Times are tough for international trade with snarled U.S. ports and, as Talking Trade hosts Ian Coxhead and Sandi Siegel learn from Kohler Co. trade coordinator Julie Pojar, a patchwork of changing tariffs poses continued trade barriers.

Rol-Tec has completed construction of a 15,700 s.f. addition to its Green Bay headquarters where it manufactures rubber covered rollers, metal roller bases, laser-engraved flexo sleeves, and tungsten carbide roller coatings for printing, industrial and converting operations throughout North America. The company is also a unique manufacturer of custom cast urethane parts for a variety of industrial...

Madison, Wis. – Today, the State of Wisconsin was awarded a $1 million Statewide Economic Development Planning grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration to chart a path toward electric vehicle adoption in Wisconsin. The grant, which is funded with federal dollars from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) is part of President Joe Biden’s Build Back...

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) is accepting public comments until October 28, 2021, for a proposed special pesticide registration to allow corn growers to use Avipel® Hopper Box (dry) corn seed treatment as a non-lethal repellant to prevent sandhill cranes from feeding on planted corn. Sandhill cranes dig in the soil...

MILWAUKEE — Dr. Brooke Mayer, associate professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering in Marquette University’s Opus College of Engineering, has received a $627,000 subaward as a partner in the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center – Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability (STEPS), a five-year, $25 million initiative led by North Carolina State University. Mayer...

MADISON – Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) – the combined state chamber and manufacturers’ association – announced on Thursday that Mallory Wipperman has been promoted to Director of Membership. Wipperman joined WMC in 2017 as Member Relations Coordinator and then served as Associate Director of Membership. Before joining WMC, Wipperman held numerous roles in...

ELKHORN, Wis., October 21, 2021 – Blackwell Capital Group, LLC, has acquired Advance Fittings Corp., an Elkhorn, Wis.-based manufacturer of stainless steel fittings and components for the bio-pharmaceutical and other process industries. “Advance Fittings has grown to become the only U.S. company that manufactures a complete line of bio-processing equipment fittings with quality that...

MADISON, Wis. – October 21, 2021 – Seven food banks are receiving a total of $400,000 from the annual Drive Out Hunger golf event held by Alliant Energy’s Foundation. These funds will purchase 1.2 million meals to fight hunger and provide food for local families.  “We are truly proud of the support our Drive Out Hunger event has raised to combat hunger over...

(Eau Claire, WI) — The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Foundation has received a $10 million gift, the largest investment in an endowed fund in the university’s history. This lead gift is helping launch the public phase of the Foundation’s Sustaining Human Innovation capital campaign. An anonymous donor on the Foundation’s board of directors announced...

Milwaukee – The Historic King Drive BID #8 today announced Raynetta “Ray” Hill as the new Executive Director, following a local and national search. Hill will step into the new role following Deshea Agee’s departure in June earlier this year. “It is an honor to return to the BID to continue the incredible and important...

Menomonie, Wis. – Andrew Smith enjoys color and science, asking questions like, what causes color? How is color formed? How are pigments made? Combining his interests in graduate school at Oregon State University gave him a new perspective. “I started to understand what color was and how to manipulate it, which was no trivial...