Ashland Inc. To Acquire Oak Creek’s Northwest Coatings
COVINGTON, Ky., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ashland Inc. (NYSE:ASH) announced today that it signed a definitive agreement on Friday, Oct. 27, to purchase the assets of Northwest Coatings of Oak Creek, Wis., a formulator and manufacturer of adhesives and coatings employing ultraviolet and electron beam (UV/EB) polymerization technologies. Northwest Coatings is a holding of Caltius Equity Partners. The transaction,...
State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference Starts Wednesday in Milwaukee
CHICAGO (Oct. 27, 2006) -- The biennial State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference (SOLEC) provides a science-based assessment of the state of the Great Lakes basin. What: SOLEC was established by the governments of the U.S. and Canada in
1992 to provide coordinated and consistent reporting on the state of the
health of the Great...
Orion Receives $500,000 Equity Investment from Capvest
PLYMOUTH, Wis. -- Orion Energy Systems, an award-winning designer and manufacturer of energy management products and services, announced that Technology Transformation Venture Fund and Capvest® Venture Fund of New Albany, Ohio, with offices in Madison and Sussex, Wisconsin, have made a $500,000 Series C investment in Orion. Capvest participated in the $5 million financing along with the Clean Technology...
Briggs & Stratton Corporation Elects New Director
MILWAUKEE, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Briggs & Stratton Corporation (NYSE:BGG) :
The Board of Directors of Briggs & Stratton Corporation has unanimously elected Keith R. McLoughlin a director of the company effective January 17, 2007. Mr. McLoughlin succeeds Jay H. Baker, who recently retired from the Board, and will serve as a member of the class of directors whose terms...
