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Various Air Force facilities to be upgraded or newly constructed. MILWAUKEE, April 7, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson Controls, (NYSE:JCI) , the global, multi-industrial leader in creating smart environments, announced today that a joint venture between Versar, Inc., and Johnson Controls Federal Systems, a subsidiary of Johnson Controls, Inc., will be awarded one of approximately 12 large business contracts by...

MADISON - The project to digitize the University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives' complete collection of materials from conservationist Aldo Leopold has made its first installment of online materials available to the public. The digitization is being done under a grant awarded to the Aldo Leopold Foundation, in Baraboo, Wis., the holders of the intellectual property rights of the materials, by...

EVANSVILLE – Governor Jim Doyle today announced $4 million for the construction of the first soybean crushing facility in the state that will create the soybean oil that will eventually become biodiesel.   Landmark Services Cooperative, a farmer-owned cooperative, was awarded the grant to build a plant with the capacity to process 20 million bushels of soybeans annually.   “The soybeans Wisconsin...

Wisconsin Department of Transportation unveils new work zone safety campaign Governor Jim Doyle has proclaimed the week of April 7-11 as Work Zone Awareness Week in Wisconsin. It coincides with National Work Zone Awareness Week. In his proclamation, Governor Doyle noted that on average, Wisconsin annually suffers nearly 2,000 crashes in work zones that injure 900 people and kill 11. "It...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MADISON - Sherwin Greenblatt calls it the “valley of death,” that high-risk gap between creating a company and either selling it or turning it into a profitable enterprise. Greenblatt, who runs MIT’s eight-year-old Venture Mentoring Service, says nascent firms need lots of help when they are starting out. That’s why the former president of Bose...

Dairyland Power Cooperative’s search for a landfill site to dump ash from its Genoa plant just keeps coming back as a hot issue. Now, it’s even made the movies. A 30-minute documentary about Vernon County residents’ fight against the proposed landfill was recently featured at the 10th annual Wisconsin Film Festival. The film, “Keeping the Lights On,” is by Gretta Wing...

By Brian E. Clark RISING High-tech industry The Badger State’s high-tech industry added 1,600 jobs in 2006 to reach a total of 81,400, 21st in the nation, according to a new report by the American Electronics Association, the nation's largest technology trade association. The 2006 data was the most current available for Wisconsin, AEA said in releasing its 11th annual "Cyberstates" report. The group doesn't cover biotech,...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- A subsidiary of Opto Circuits Ltd. of Bangalore, India, announced today it has completed its tender offer to acquire the outstanding shares of common stock of Waukesha-based Criticare Systems Inc. The offer expired Friday. Stockholders of Criticare have now tendered a total of approximately 11.5 million Criticare shares for $5.50 per share, representing approximately 93 percent...

WisBusiness.com The average workers compensation total cost per claim in Wisconsin grew rapidly from 2000 through 2005, according to a recent study, but remained among the lowest of the 14 states reviewed. The report by the Workers Compensation Research Institute showed that claims increased in four of the five years in the study, fueled primarily by an increase in...