Company Profile: Kenosha, Wisconsin-based Birchwood Foods started in 1936 as a small meat packing business. The company, which operates four manufacturing facilities in three states, is a processor of made-to-order fresh and frozen ground beef products and fully cooked proteins […]
Category Archives: Sustainability
From Supply Chain to Recruitment, Sustainability Empowers Birchwood Foods
- Post Category Case Studies III
- March 29, 2022
- Author: Benny Syverson
Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport Becomes the First in the World to Obtain AWS Certification
- Post Category Case Studies III
- January 14, 2022
- Author: Rich Rovito, Industry Reporter, WMEP
COMPANY PROFILE: Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport (GRB) is a county-owned public-use airport in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, that serves Northeastern Wisconsin. Opened in 1948, it is the fourth busiest of eight commercial service airports in Wisconsin in terms of passengers […]
WSBC to Launch Membership Model in January
- Post Category News
- December 16, 2020
- Author: Rich Rovito, Industry Reporter, WMEP
By Rich Rovito The Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council will be shifting to a membership model beginning in January. “The WSBC has long offered value by gathering sustainability leaders and businesses together to learn from one another, collaborate and problem-solve,” WSBC […]
WMEP’s McDermid Elected to AWS Technical Committee
- Post Category News
- December 16, 2020
- Author: Rich Rovito, Industry Reporter, WMEP
By Rich Rovito Mark McDermid has been elected to serve a three-year term on the Alliance for Water Stewardship Technical Committee. In the role, McDermid, who serves as a senior consultant in sustainability for WMEP Manufacturing Solutions, will offer a […]
Dillman Equipment Makes Sustainable Culture Change
- Post Category Case Studies III
- May 27, 2020
- Author: Benny Syverson
May 21, 2020 Dillman Equipment of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and its 150 employees supply the asphalt industry with a complete line of asphalt plant equipment including asphalt storage silos, counterflow drum plants, coldfeed systems, recycle systems, baghouses, dust silos, air […]
Evaluating Food Processing Plant Water Use Leads to Increased ROI
- Post Category Blog III
- April 10, 2020
- Author: Guest Blog
April 8, 2020 By: Ohio Manufacturing Extension Partnership JTM is a multi-million dollar, multi-faceted food processing company that was founded in 1960 as a butcher shop named Maas Brothers. In 1980, the company was renamed to JTM Food Group to reflect the […]
Sustainability
- Post Category Human Capital
- April 09, 2020
- Author: Benny Syverson
WMEP has been helping manufacturers with resource efficiency, productivity and making sustainability profitable for businesses. Now, together with WSBC, our suite of sustainability services supports both manufacturers and non-manufacturers to advance sustainability programs, increase efficiency and get credentials needed to […]
Testimonials
- Post Category Certification and Compliance
- June 06, 2018
- Author: Benny Syverson
One of the best ways to communicate what WMEP is and what we do is to share real-world testimonials. Direct quotes from those we’ve been privileged to work shoulder-to-shoulder with solving challenges unique to them but shared by many. Here are […]
TPI – Transformational Productivity Initiative
- Post Category Cost and Efficiency
- May 17, 2018
- Author: Benny Syverson
Increasing the productivity of Wisconsin manufacturers The goal of the Total Productivity Initiative is to increase productivity at the company level, and to bring these improvements to scale where the aggregate gains drive economic expansion in the state of […]
