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Rugged design delivers energy, cost savings in all weather conditions MANITOWOC, Wis. -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark office today approved two design patents for Orion Energy Systems’ (Nasdaq: OESX) exterior lighting technology, which includes its streetlight and parking lot fixtures. The patents are numbers 24 and 25 for Orion, a leading power technology enterprise that designs, manufactures and deploys energy...

“Urban Wind” to generate electricity without typical transmission losses MANITOWOC, Wis. -- The Manitowoc Common Council on Monday, Dec. 21, approved Orion Energy Systems’ request to build a wind turbine at the power technology enterprises’ Woodland Drive world headquarters. Orion’s wind turbine is expected to generate 20 kilowatts of electricity that will be used to help power the company’s technology center...

Contact: Bill Rubin/Jacki Bradham St. Croix EDC 715-381-4383 Manufacturing Outreach Center Poised to Assist Local Manufacturers State grant funds are available to help Wisconsin manufacturers improve performance, stimulate growth, and respond to new challenges as the economy recovers from the recession. “Wisconsin manufacturers who adopt Next Generation Manufacturing principles can improve their competitiveness, win a greater share of global markets, and react quickly to...

Contact: Freda Briscoe (262) 472-3216 briscoef@uww.edu WHITEWATER – A summer program that offers incoming minority freshmen a personal introduction to business programs at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has won a prestigious diversity award from the UW System. The university’s Summer Business Institute will receive the 2010 Board of Regents Diversity Award in the institution category. The $5,000 award, one of three given...

Contact: Tom Bernd Marketing and Communications Manager DeWitt Ross & Stevens, S.C. 608-252-9356 tsb@dewittross.com MADISON, WI (January 4, 2010) — The national magazine Super Lawyers has selected Dennis P. Birke, for inclusion in the January issue of Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition, for his work in Environmental Litigation.  Only five percent of the lawyers in the state are named by Super Lawyers. Selection for Wisconsin...

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By Brian E. Clark For WisBusiness.com Dissatisfied with Wisconsin's shrinking tourism budget, industry leaders are seeking ways to raise millions of dollars to better promote the Badger State's $13 billion travel industry. One way to do that, they say, might be to break the Department of Tourism off from state government and set up something modeled on the independent Wisconsin Milk...