Wisconsin

 

 

Major industries in Wisconsin are agriculture, manufacturing, printing, and life sciences. Top ten exported product categories in 2006 were industrial machinery ($5.5. bil) electrical machinery($2.5 bil), instruments($2 bil), transportation equipment($1.4 bil), paper products($800 mil), cereals($569 mil), printer matter($258 mil), iron/steel products($242 mil), furniture &bedding ($217 mil).

 

AGRICULTURE

 

Wisconsin is the leading state in the production of cheese as well as the second largest milk producer (after California).  Major crops in the state are corn, hay, soybeans, potatoes, cranberries, sweet corn, peas, and oats, snap beets. Food processing and beer are also significant parts of the economy. Wisconsin is home to over 1,000 food processing firms. Food processing giants such as Ore-Ida, Oscar Mayer, Kraft, Kikkoman Foods, Sargento, Ocean Spray Cranberries and Nabisco opened up production facilities in the state.

 

Wisconsin Ranks

1st in beans for processing, corn for silage, cheese, cranberries, and ginseng

3rd in carrots, green peas for processing, potatoes, and sweet corn for processing

4th in maple syrup, oats and tart cherries

5th in cucumbers for pickles and mint for oil

 

MANUFACTURING

 

Major manufactured products include motor vehicles and equipment, furniture, paper products, and plastics.

Paper

Wisconsin ranks second among the 47 paper-producing states with more than 5.3 million tons of paper and over 1.1 million tons of paperboard produced annually.

 

Plastics

Wisconsin is a leader in the plastics industry nationally in terms of employment and total number of manufacturers.

 

Metal Fabrication

Wisconsin ranks third in the country for value added by the fabricated metal industry per $100 of Gross Domestic Product. The industry produces architectural and structural metal, cutlery and hand tools, hardware, machine shops, turned products, screws, nuts, and bolts, and tanks.

 

Automotive

Wisconsin automotive industry produces specialty trucks and truck bodies for the military, and construction, SUVs, truck-bodies, stainless-steel tank trailers, heat exchangers and HVAC systems, etc. Some of the US biggest auto makers and suppliers with plants in Wisconsin include Oshkosh Truck Corp, GM, DaimlerChrysler, Johnson Refrigerated Truck Bodies, Delphi Corp. and Dana Corp., Johnson Controls, etc.

 

MINERALS

 

The state's mines produce copper, iron ore, lead, and zinc. Sand and gravel, stone, and lime are other valuable mineral resources.

 

LIFE SCIENCES

 

Bioscience in Wisconsin contributes over $6.9 billion to the state's economy. Wisconsin bioscience industry, comprised of 338 companies throughout the state, had revenues of $6.4 billion in 2005. Wisconsin's companies are active in medical imaging, diagnostics and medical devices - and food and agricultural biosciences. Wisconsin bioscience industry is young and growing. Half of the companies in the sector are less than 10 years old. Two-thirds are less than 15 years old and employ 22,372 people in the state. Most of the bioscience companies in Wisconsin developed from scientific discoveries made in Wisconsin's academic research laboratories.

 

UW-Madison ranks third among American public universities for research expenditures. Marshfield Clinic and Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation is one of the largest private medical research facilities in the nation.

 

Some of the main Wisconsin Life Science companies are Promega Corporation, TomoTherapy Incorporated, Perfecseal, Inc., Bruker AXS, Hillestad Pharmaceuticals and others.

 

PRINTING

 

The Wisconsin printing industry annually rolls $7.4 billion in product off its presses and employs 46,000 people. Wisconsin’s 1,040 printing plants place it 11th in the country. Many of the Illinois printers moved to Wisconsin because of the union laws. Major printing markets that Wisconsin printers serve include general commercial, packaging printing, newspaper, magazine, book printing, labels & wrapper, etc.

 

 

 

LOGISTICS/TRANSPORTATION

 

Wisconsin has numerous ports on the Great Lakes capable of accommodating oceangoing vessels. The superb harbor at Superior (shared with Duluth, Minn.) has sizable shipyards and coal and ore docks that are among the nation's largest.

 

GAMBLING

Several Native American groups operate gambling casinos in the state; through casino enterprises the Winnebago tribe has become one of the state's larger employers.

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