Cummins Emissions Unit Sets Partnership; Will Close Wisconsin Plant

Cummins Inc. unit Cummins Emission Solutions said it will partner with a technology company for 2010 engine controls and that it will close a Wisconsin plant.

CES said late Tuesday it will partner with EMCON Technologies LLC to make emission controls systems for the 2010 on-highway truck market. EMCON will make CES’s diesel particulate filters.

It will continue to provide the particulate filter and selective catalytic reduction systems to meeting 2010 emission standards from its existing manufacturing base in Wisconsin.

CES also said it will shut down its Wautoma, Wis., plant, which employs about 180 people. It will close its doors by the end of March.

Other emission control and exhaust products currently manufactured in the Wautoma facility will be moved to other CES manufacturing locations in Wisconsin, Cummins said.