Development

Business and Economic Development

COOL THINGS MADE HERE

The high quality of life in Beaver Dam is sustained by an excellent local economy with a diverse mix of businesses and a favorable business climate. Beaver Dam has a healthy mix of food processing, printing, distribution and manufacturing businesses. The Beaver Dam Area Development Corporation (BDADC) facilitates economic development for the city aided by the City of Beaver Dam and Beaver Dam Area Chamber of Commerce. With revitalization efforts in the downtown, quality workforce, local amenities and shopping, Beaver Dam is positioned for continued positive growth. Interested in opening a business here, give us a call!

The Beaver Dam area is home to some of the world’s most innovative companies who make products and parts and serve some of the biggest brands we know. Here is just a taste of the “cool things made around here.”

Photograph by Breuer Metal Craftsmen

BEAVER DAM COMMERCE PARK ALLIANT ENERGY GROWTH SITE

Alliant Energy serves thousands of large industrial customers and has developed Alliant Energy Growth Sites that are large areas and are served by Alliant Energy electric and/or natural gas and are development ready. One of the largest available business properties in Wisconsin, the Beaver Dam Commerce park totals 520 contiguous acres adjacent to the four-lane Highway 151. It is centrally located, allowing one day hauls from destinations, such as Twin Cities, Des Moines, Indianapolis and Detroit.

APACHE STAINLESS EQUIPMENT CORPORATION

A manufacturer that supplies large commercial equipment to critical industries, including food production, pharmaceutical development and manufacturing, and energy processing and refinement. The employee-owned company provides highly customized engineering services and equipment products to processors across North America.

Fun Fact: Annually, Apache Stainless turns 2.5 million pounds of stainless and high-alloy steel into large tanks, small vessels and food processing equipment for commercial manufacturers.

BUSSE/SJI, RANDOLPH, WI - A DIVISION OF ARROWHEAD SYSTEMS, INC.

Manufactures high-speed palletizing and depalletizing equipment for the food, beverage and container manufacturing industries. The Viper Palletizers are used around the world in the production of aluminum beverage cans and steel food cans. The Alpha Turbo Depalletizers are utilized by food/beverage producers to deliver empty containers into the filling lines.

Fun Fact: The Viper Palletizers can align and place empty aluminum beverage cans onto pallets at rates over 4,000 cans per minute.

BREUER METAL CRAFTSMEN

The origins of Breuer Metal Craftsmen are rooted in Germany and France during the early 1900s. They have called Beaver Dam home since the 1940s and are now transitioning to that rare 4th generation of family ownership. Their stairs, railings and miscellaneous metals are designed and fabricated by the area’s most talented and experienced metalworkers. These custom fabrications can be found across the U.S. and beyond.

Burgess-Norton Manufacturing Company is the world’s largest manufacturer of piston pins. For over a century, they have specialized in the development and manufacturing of piston pins to serve the internal combustion market. They are also the world’s leading producer of awardwinning precision powder metal components.

Fun Fact: Burgess-Norton Manufacturing Company powers over 150 million vehicles globally every day.

JOHN DEERE

John Deere Horicon Works makes premium riding lawn equipment (X300, X500, X700 Series tractors) and premium utility vehicles for John Deere customers worldwide. The factory also makes some attachments for those products, as well as golf course management cutting systems for high-accuracy turf management.

Fun Fact: The John Deere Horicon Works factory is here because of the activities of a bird called the passenger pigeon. Seems this bird would follow farmers seeding the fields and eat much of the seed that was distributed. The Van Brunt brothers saw this happening and designed a machine to plant the seed in the ground to protect it from the birds. These machines increased yields significantly for the farmers. John Deere partnered with the Van Brunt family in 1911, and the equipment, known as the Grain Drill, became part of the John Deere product family.

Photograph provided by John Deere Horicon Works

KIRSH FOUNDRY

Is a manufacturer of high-quality, engineered iron castings ranging in size from ounces to sixty pounds. The foundry is dedicated to staying safe, clean and productive. Constant investment in state-of-the-art equipment through the years has kept Kirsh on the forefront of the industry. Having long been committed to upgrading their capabilities, each year they take another step forward in developing innovative ways to serve their customers.

Philadelphia Cream Cheese was first produced in Beaver Dam in 1924 by the Phenix Cheese Company. J.L. Kraft purchased Phenix Cheese Company in 1928. The Beaver Dam food plant is one of the original Kraft plants and employs just over 250 employees, runs 3 shifts, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Kraft and Heinz merged in 2015 to form Kraft Heinz.

Fun Fact: In the 1940s, an employee from the Beaver Dam plant by the name of Oscar J. Link developed new technology to improve the cream cheese production process. That same technology is still the industry standard for cream cheese production today.

MAYVILLE ENGINEERING CORP (MEC)

Mayville Engineering Company, Inc. (MEC) was founded in 1945 by Ted Bachhuber and his Uncle Leo. Today, MEC is a leading U.S.-based value-added manufacturing partner that provides a broad range of prototyping and tooling, production fabrication, coating, assembly and aftermarket components. Their customers operate in diverse end markets, including heavy- and medium-duty commercial vehicles, construction, powersports, agriculture, military and other end markets. MEC has developed long-standing relationships with bluechip customers based upon a high level of experience, trust and confidence.

Fun Fact: In 2011, MEC was named the “#1 Largest Fabricator in the U.S.” by The Fabricator magazine; a title that the company has now held for ten consecutive years serving a growing list of diversified and market leading OEMs.

METALCRAFT OF MAYVILLE

Headquartered in Mayville, WI, Metalcraft of Mayville Inc. (MOM) has become a leading metal fabricator and manufacturer for OEM customers across the United States. MOM serves automation, agriculture, commercial lawn care (Scag Power Equipment), construction, equipment transport, industrial, military, and mining markets. MOM, an ISO 9001:2015 registered company, manufactures products in its five facilities, totaling over 1,000,000 square feet, located in Mayville, WI; Beaver Dam, WI; New Berlin, WI; Watertown, WI; and West Bend, WI.

Fun Fact: Metalcraft of Mayville is proud to celebrate 100 Years of Heritage during the year 2020. Metalcraft of Mayville can trace its heritage to the Peerless Traveling Goods Company, which was founded in Mayville in 1920. Peerless would manufacture various types of luggage products until the company ceased operations and was sold in 1958.

Photograph provided by Mittera Wisconsin, LLC

MITTERA WISCONSIN, LLC

Is a high-volume commercial printer with web, sheetfed, saddle-stitching and perfect-binding expertise. They produce both commercial and publication pieces, such as magazines, catalogs, sales flyers and self-mailers, and employ approximately 120 people year round. Mittera Wisconsin is a proud part of Mittera Group, with headquarters in Des Moines and plants located in ten states.

Fun Fact: Mittera Wisconsin has its own detached post office in the building and sends out over 85 million pieces of mail a year. Mittera use nearly 28 million pounds of paper each year, all sustainably produced. Their typical roll weighs 2,000 pounds and takes us around 30 minutes to use.

NORTHWOODS CASKET COMPANY,

INC. Handcrafts fine wooden caskets and cremation urns in a manner that preserves and protects precious natural resources and the Earth’s beautiful landscapes. While they ship nationwide, much of their business is here in Wisconsin, serving more than 300 funeral home locations in Wisconsin and Minnesota with next-day delivery guaranteed. The distribution arm of their business, Casket Builder Supply, ships specialty parts, hardware and upholstery to other boutique casket companies and independent builders worldwide. They serve more than 1,600 casket builders regularly.

Fun Fact: They plant 100 trees in Wisconsin for every casket they build and 10 trees for every cremation urn built.

A full-service private-label manufacturer for private-label frozen pizzas, dressings and sauces. Their Beaver Dam plant specifically runs only private-label frozen pizzas.

Fun Fact: Up until a little more than ten years ago, Richelieu Foods produced different types of foods, including potato salads and meatloaf! A little over a decade ago, the company shifted its focus to be private-label frozen pizza.

SUPREME MANUFACTURING

A full-service metal fabrication facility with forty full-time employees and two shifts. In Beaver Dam since 2004, they are a family owned business with a combined 127 years of experience in the metalworking and machinery building industry. They use state-of-the-art equipment to fabricate products and complete assemblies for Original Equipment Manufactures (OEM) in the transportation, refrigeration, food manufacturing, snow removal and pharmaceutical industries and many more. You may see some of their work at the local grocery stores in refrigerators and freezers or on the back of a city truck or snowplow.

Fun Fact: Some of the ovens they manufacture for a company in Pennsylvania are used in the construction of the ventilators that we heard so much about recently.

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