MEDIA CENTER

   

Welcome journalists and editors. Here are links to interesting story possibilities
to engage your readers, including: environmentally friendly commercial metal
finishing (green) and details about our 90-year history.

Contact Eileen La Duke, at who will quickly provide
additional details on these and other stories and suggest contacts to interview depending
on your story needs.



PUBLISHED ARTICLES

October 19, 2008
The Racine Journal Times

Plating Success
Wisconsin Plating Works of Racine sees business grow 'by leaps and bounds'...
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October 20, 2008
BizTimes Manufacturing Weekly

Racine Plating Company Will Remediate Site
Wisconsin Plating was recently awarded a $165,000 state brownfield grant to help pay
for soil removal and remediation.  Cleanup work will begin...

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September 19, 2008
Small Business Times
Future 50 Share Their Key Strategies For Surviving The Economic Downturn
What is your company’s key strategy for surviving the economic downturn? Responses
follow ...
                                                                                                                                                   
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June 11, 2008
Small Business Times
MMAC Announces Future 50 Winners
MMAC/COSBE began the Future 50 program in 1980 to recognize privately owned
companies ...
                                                                                                                                                  
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2008
MMAC Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce Web Site
Future 50 Awards Program

Winners are honored at the annual Future 50 Luncheon, are highlighted in the MMAC’s
membership directory ...
                                                                                                                                                  
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NEWS RELEASES

December 15, 2009
Wisconsin Plating Works Earns ASO 9001:2008 Recertification
Wisconsin Plating Works of Racine, Inc. recently received the ISO 9001:2008
Certificate of Registration after Quality Management Systems were found ...
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November 2, 2009
Wisconsin Plating Works Celebrates 90 Years of Metal Finishing 
and Family Ownership
Wisconsin Plating Works is celebrating its 90th year as a family operated, regional 
commercial and industrial metal finisher. Owners Robert and Jeffrey Toeppe ...
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June 8, 2009
Wisconsin Plating Works Receives 2009 Best of Racine Award 
Wisconsin Plating Works has been selected for the 2009 Best of Racine Award in the
Electroplating Metals & Formed Products category by the U.S. Commerce ...

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November 4, 2008
Wisconsin Plating Works' Web Site Redesign Positions Company
for 90th Anniversary
New information, photos and a video are just a few of the new features on Wisconsin
Plating's new Web Site.  A new media page contains information of interest ...

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January 22, 2007
Wisconsin Plating Among Rare Few to Receive ISO Recertification
Every six months surveillance audits are conducted by auditors of Perry Johnson Registrars
of Southfield, Michigan. The term of certification ...

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July 28, 2005
Wisconsin Plating Buys Out Racine Plating Company
Wisconsin Plating Works of Racine acquires the assets and equipment of Racine Plating
Company. The combined companies will share over ...

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ARCHIVES

September, 2004
Enhanced Testing Capabilities Added with X-ray Technology

August 13, 2004
Wisconsin Plating Celebrates 85-Year Anniversary

October 1, 2003
Specialty Finishing Capabilities Expands

August 25, 2003
In the Top 1%, Wisconsin Plating Works Receives International Quality
Certification (ISO 9001:2000) 












AWARDS

Future 50 2008

Racine County Business
Person of the Year 2008



The State of Wisconsin Citation
by the Legislature 2007



Wisconsin Manufacturer of the
Year Award for Employee and
Environmental Stewardship 2006



HUBZone Certification 2004


Industrial Environmental
Achievement Award 2003