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Elevate Sustainability as an Economic Driver
Schneider to become one of the largest battery-electric truck fleets in North
SCHNEIDER
GREEN BAY – Schneider (NYSE: SNDR), a premier provider of transportation, intermodal and logistics services, announced today a major battery-electric truck (BEV) deployment as part of the carrier’s plan to reduce greenhouse emissions.
Beginning in 2022, Schneider will add 50 Freightliner eCascadias — the truck manufacturer’s first commercial Class 8 battery-electric truck— to its Southern California intermodal operations, making the organization one of the largest battery-electric truck fleets in North America. Schneider has plans for more BEVs and route options...
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Fostering Diversity-Equity-Inclusion-Belonging
Females on the frontlines: St. Norbert College graduate is debunking stereotypes and helping diversify the fire industry
NBC 26
WISCONSIN — Firefighter Emily Owens is a St. Norbert College graduate whose not only debunking stereotypes in her career field, but is part of the groundbreaking efforts to help diversify the fire industry.
"I didn't always get a lot of support as the only woman on a crew. There was a time when I was the only woman on a crew. There was a time when I was the only woman working on a prescribed fire and people didn't really bother learning my name. They just called me girl. That was really hard for me,” Owens said...
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Technology and Innovation
Tech tool from two Twin Cities companies helping solve supply chain issues (C.H. Robinson)
STAR TRIBUNE
A breakfast in winter of 2020 at the Original Pancake House in Eden Prairie between executives from SPS Commerce and C.H. Robinson led to a new collaborative logistics product that is even more important now as supply chain disruptions are holding up key deliveries for companies.
The companies serve clients in different but complementary areas of supply chain services. Both also serve retail and consumer product companies, so they shared similar insights on customer needs...
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Economic Development Feature
Port around Great Lakes on sidelines during shipping crisis
WBAY
GREEN BAY - With hundreds of ships stacked up off ports along the east and west coasts, ports around the Great Lakes can’t help alleviate the current supply chain crisis.
According to the Port of Green Bay’s director, Dean Haen, it’s due in part to a federal taxation policy on ships sailing the Great Lakes.
“There’s a 1,000 ports in the United States, including 25 fairly decent size ones in the Great Lakes that can’t help in this situation without some changes in legislative policy,” says Haen.
The policy Haen is referring to is the Harbor Maintenance Tax established in the early 1980.
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Promoting the Regional Brand
NEW Manufacturing Alliance announces 2021 Excellence in Manufacturing/K-12 Partnership Awards
WIS BUSINESS
GREEN BAY -- The Northeast Wisconsin (NEW) Manufacturing Alliance’s 10th annual “Excellence in Manufacturing/K-12 Partnerships Awards” will be held on Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at the KI Convention Center in Green Bay. The event will spotlight best practices of manufacturing and education collaborations throughout northeast Wisconsin as well as showcasing top talent from local manufacturing companies.
Jeff Anderson is president of Precision Paper Converters and Board Chair of the NEW Manufacturing Alliance. He stated, “The awards dinner is a celebration of the strong partnerships that have formed between manufacturers and education.” Anderson added, “The evening will showcase best practices and provide other schools and manufacturers a roadmap they can replicate.”...
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Leadership in the New North
WEC Energy names next CEO; Klappa remains executive chair
MILWAUKEE BUSINESS JOURNAL
Gale Klappa will continue serving as executive chairman at Wisconsin’s largest public utility company WEC Energy Group Inc. until May 2024 while CEO Kevin Fletcher will retire in February 2022 and be replaced by chief operating officer Scott Lauber.
Milwaukee-based WEC Energy (NYSE: WEC) on Monday called the moves “the next steps in the company's succession planning process providing continuity and senior leadership for the next chapter of the company's growth, development and service to customers.”...
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