For more than four decades, ACH Foam Technologies in Fond du Lac has been an industry leader in providing expanded polystyrene (EPS) products for the construction, geotechnical and packaging industries. The company’s focus on sustainability is reflected in environmentally friendly products that […]
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ACH Foam Technologies Finds Energy Savings
- Business Outcome: Cost and Efficiency
- June 03, 2011
- Author: WMEP
Lanair focus on marketing, employee culture pays big dividends
- Business Outcome: Cost and Efficiency
- April 11, 2011
- Author: WMEP
Lanair focus on marketing and employee culture pays big dividends In October of 2009 when Barry Brandt purchased the family-owned and operated Lanair Products, LLC of Janesville, he knew he had a winner. The popularity of the company’s waste oil […]
Sadoff and Rudoy Scraps Waste and Gets Lean
- Business Outcome: Growth
- March 11, 2011
- Author: WMEP
Goal: Increase Production by 30% Sadoff & Rudoy Industries LLP (SRI) has been at the leading edge of its industry – recycling scrap metal – since its founding in 1947. The family-owned company became known for its innovations in handling […]
Marsh Electronics Surges with Enterprise Business Transformation
- Business Outcome: Cost and Efficiency
- January 11, 2011
- Author: WMEP
Enterprise Business Transformation (EBT) Prepares Marsh Electronics for Post-Recession Growth In early 2009, Marsh Electronics of Milwaukee was feeling the full effects of the recession. Like many distributors and assembly firms, Marsh Electronics went in survival mode – instituting layoffs, […]
Bock Rethinks its Business and Fires Up Growth
- Business Outcome: Cost and Efficiency
- December 29, 2010
- Author: WMEP
For 77 years, Bock Water Heaters Inc., has thrived as an employee-owned company with plants in Princeton (subsidiary, Tank Technology, Inc.) and Madison and employs 90. Bock has manufactured branded, oil-fired water heaters for homes. “We are the market leader […]
Strategic Planning Sets Course for Bachhuber
- Business Outcome: Cost and Efficiency
- December 22, 2010
- Author: WMEP
Strategic Business Planning and Lean Reveal Profit Bachhuber Manufacturing Corp., a Mayville company employing 25, is a contract manufacturer and maker of press automation equipment. The Issue They wanted to grow their press business while maintaining the contract side and […]
Bernsten Reaches New Summit with Strategic Planning
- Business Outcome: Growth
- December 22, 2010
- Author: WMEP
Bernsten International Reaches New Summit At the summit of Mount McKinley, there’s a survey marker made by Berntsen International. Placed there by an 8-man expedition team in June 1989, the brass disk marks the summit’s true elevation, 20,320 feet above […]
Fox Valley Metal Tech: Lean Achieves 64% Reduction in Cycle Time
- Business Outcome: Cost and Efficiency
- August 24, 2010
- Author: WMEP
Fox Valley Metal Tech Accelerates Turn-Around Time 64% John West, president of Fox Valley Metal Tech, was enthusiastic when his customer, a major defense contractor, asked him to participate in WMEP’s Accelerate program. Over the past few years, the company […]
Dutchland Plastics Corporation: Strategic Planning Promotes Growth & Efficiency
- Business Outcome: Cost and Efficiency
- August 24, 2010
- Author: WMEP
Dutchland Plastics Spurs Growth Strategic planning builds a solid foundation for growth Dutchland Plastics Corporation, based in Oostburg, Wisconsin, was established in 1967 and continues today as a family-owned business with 200 employees and revenue of $25 million annually. The […]
