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of the city’s light manufacturing firms. “This city, very much like the State of Wisconsin, has manufacturing as its backbone,” declares May- or John David, before listing some of the com- panies that call Watertown home. “We have Eaton Corporation (a global technology leader in power management solutions that make electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical power op- erate more efficiently, reliably, safely, and sus- tainably); we have a company called Spuncast (provides centrifugal castings and stainless steel tubing products, such as hydraulic cylin- ders); we have Wisconsin Invest Cast (provides investment metal casting production for alu- minum, steel, iron, and other metal alloys and WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN metal prototypes molds); we have Baker-Rullman (a leader in the engineering, design, and fabrication of rotary drum dryers, modular steel bins & hoppers, struc- tural steel, feed and seed mill systems and custom metalwork); and we have Fisher Barton (agricultural components and assem- blies), that has been a very positive employer in this city.We have another com- pany that is thinking about expanding–Ad Tech Indus- tries (specializes in powder coating, custom assembling and electroless nickel plating services).We have a company who just recently expanded and built a new facility out in our industrial park, BASO Gas Products LLC (provides the highest quality gas valves, pilot burners, thermocouples, igniters, ignition controls, and accessories).” “We’ve got a really nice business in town in the food industry,” David contin- ues. “Clasen Quality Chocolate (a world-class manufacturer of confectionery coatings, fillings and chocolate.) They have been an excellent employer and have had some expansions in the city.We have another business – Johnsonville Sausage, LLC. They’ve got a processing plant in town and they make bratwurst, breakfast sausages, and various things like that. They just invested $37 million into their plant. And they are a large employer in the city with about 140 em-