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FOND DU LAC - Fond du Lac County's contenders in the Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin contest have made it into the top eight. Marine engineering manufacturer Mercury Marine won over Stoughton Trailers, and Mayville Engineering Co. Outdoors, which makes shotshell reloaders and clay target machines, beat out Ki Mobility from Stevens Point, according to Monday's Facebook Live announcement from Wisconsin ...

GREEN BAY - Four of the eight finalists in the latest “Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin” contest are from Northeast Wisconsin. The entries with local ties are: Fond du Lac’s Mercury Marine, with its Bravo Four S Forward-Facing Drive Neenah’s Kimberly-Clark, with its Nano Preemie Diapers Appleton’s Boldt Company, with its STAAT Mod units Mayville’s MEC Outdoors, with its 600 Jr. ...

MADISON – Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) and Johnson Financial Group announced on Monday the Top 8 products moving on in the Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin contest. More than 50,000 votes have been cast since the beginning of the contest. The Top 8 products were announced via a livestream broadcast on Facebook, YouTube and MadeInWis.com. The announcement show can ...

MADISON - Voting continues this week for this year’s contenders of the “Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin.” Nick Novak of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce has been busy tabulating all the votes and explains all the details with WISC-TV's Christina Lorey. Watch the segment at Channel3000.com.

GREEN BAY - The top 16 have been decided. Voting for round two of the Coolest Thing Made In Wisconsin contest starts today. Five businesses from northeast Wisconsin have made the cut. Let's take a look at the bracket: Taking the number one seed out of Neenah is Plexus Corporation, with their Quidel Sofia 2 florescent immuno-assay analyzer. The product helps ...

MAYVILLE - Two Dodge County manufacturers have placed in the top 16 of the “Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin” contest. The fifth annual contest, hosted by the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce and Johnson Financial Group, showcases the top products of the state’s manufacturing industry. More than 18,000 votes were cast in the first round of the competition, whittling down the ...

MEQUON - Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) and Johnson Financial Group have begun their fifth annual search for the coolest thing being made in Wisconsin. The annual competition aims to highlight the state’s manufacturing industry - which employs one in six Wisconsinites and ultimately determine the “Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin.” MuL Technologies, of Mequon, has their Mobile Autonomous Robotics Cart ...

MADISON - Local library and school supply company Demco, Inc. has made it into the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce Top 16 of the Coolest Things Made in Wisconsin contest for its desk barriers. According to the Made in Wisconsin website, the competition aims to highlight the state’s “vibrant” manufacturing industry, bringing attention to cool things made in Wisconsin and the career ...

APPLETON - Five companies from the Fox Valley area made it to the second round of the “Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin” contest. Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce spokesman Nick Novak says they had nearly 150 nominees, and an online vote narrowed them to 16. Plexus in Neenah is the No. 1 seed, for a product that’s a diagnostic machine for COVID-19, ...

MILWAUKEE - Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) and Johnson Financial Group announced on Monday, Sept. 21 the Top 16 products moving on in the Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin contest. After more than 18,000 votes were cast, the top vote-getters will move on to the next round and compete in Manufacturing Madness, a head-to-head tournament-style bracket. The first round of Manufacturing ...