Published: July 6, 2010
Tags: Fire, plant, Uniroyal
STOUGHTON, Wis. (AP) — Firefighters from six departments battled a blaze at Uniroyal Engineered Products in Stoughton early Tuesday.
According to a Dane County communications center dispatcher, firefighters were called to the plant about 4 a.m. where smoke and fire was pouring from an exterior heating unit at the plant.
There are no reports of injuries.
The plant [...]
Published: June 6, 2010
Tags: AllianceFederated Energy, blog, electricity, energy, Hot Topics, Milwaukee, plant, plasma gasification, Project Apollo, RENEW Wisconsin, renewable energy, thompson, trash, Waukesha Environmental Action League
Comments: 3
By Chris Thompson
editor
The friction caused by the furious hand-wringing over plasma gasification could, in itself, be considered a form of renewable energy.
Published: May 21, 2010
Tags: jobs, Osceola, plant, Polaris
OSCEOLA, Wis. (AP) — Polaris Industries Inc. will shut down its parts plant in the western Wisconsin city of Osceola, according to the company.
The Medina, Minn.-based maker of snowmobiles, ATVs and Victory motorcycles is moving many of the operations to a new facility in the Monterrey-Saltillo area of Mexico.
Polaris will continue to make snowmobiles in [...]
Published: May 19, 2010
Tags: Energy Composites, jobs, mercury, plant, wind farms, wind turbines, Wisconsin Rapids
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state has approved $45 million in bond authority for a central Wisconsin factory that could eventually create 600 jobs.
Energy Composites plans to build a plant that will produce turbine blades for wind farms. The company already employs about 70 people in Wisconsin Rapids where it develops composite materials used by [...]
Published: May 17, 2010
Tags: jobs, plant, SPX, The SPX Corp., transformers, Waukesha, Waukesha Electric Systems
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — The SPX Corp. will invest $70 million in its Waukesha Electric Systems’ manufacturing plant in southeastern Wisconsin, the company announced Monday.
According to SPX, it will increase the size of the Waukesha facility by about 50 percent and provide the company with greater capability to make large, high-voltage [...]
Published: May 5, 2010
Tags: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, osha, plant, safety violations, Whitehall
WHITEHALL, Wis. (AP) — An Illinois milk-related company has agreed to pay $535,000 in fines stemming from safety violations at a Wisconsin plant, according to a federal safety organization.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the settlement Wednesday with Milk Specialties Co.
The company is based in Carpentersville, Ill. Its products include a protein supplements for [...]
Published: April 1, 2010
Tags: Aacer Flooring, Bamberger & Polsky SC, Bay Area Workforce Development Board, Beck, Chaet, debt, DWD, jobs, Peshtigo, plant, Polsky, receivership, Todd Braun, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Wolf River Lumber, Wolf River Lumber Inc.
By Paul Snyder
The possible closure of Peshtigo-based Aacer Flooring LLC and its affiliate, New London-based Wolf River Lumber Inc., does not mean the companies’ 222 employees will lose their jobs.
Michael Polsky, an attorney with Milwaukee-based Beck, Chaet, Bamberger & Polsky SC, is representing the companies, both of which went into receivership this week, and said [...]
Published: February 15, 2010
Tags: Barrett, Ingeteam, Menomonee Valley, Milwaukee, Obama, plant, State of the City, wind turbine
Comments: 1
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Spanish manufacturer of wind-turbine generators will build its first U.S. manufacturing plant in Milwaukee.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett made the announcement involving Ingeteam during his annual State of the City address Monday.
The Zamudio, Spain-based company will locate its North American headquarters and manufacturing facility in the Menomonee Valley.
Barrett’s spokesman, Pat Curley, said [...]
Published: January 19, 2010
Tags: Flambeau River Biofuels, green, green diesel, Miron Construction, plant, ThermoChem Recovery International, U.S. Department of Energy
Flambeau River Biofuels LLC, Park Falls, has drafted a letter of intent to engineer, procure and construct the largest second generation green diesel plant in the U.S. at an existing pulp and paper mill in Park Falls, a press release from the company said.
Park Falls/Flambeau River Biofuels Plant
The $250 million project, funded in part with [...]
By KAREN HAWKINS
Associated Press Writer
BELVIDERE, Ill. (AP) — A gas line exploded Monday at a technology plant in northern Illinois about 20 miles from the Wisconsin border, sending aloft debris that killed a man at a nearby highway rest area.
The explosion rocked the NDK America Inc. plant in Belvidere, about 70 miles northwest of Chicago, [...]
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