Elster Group s, electricity, and water meters mainly to utility customers. Its products include both manual-read and smart meters equipped with software and network communications technology used to monitor and measure consumption and energy efficiency. The group has one of the most extensive installed meter bases in the world with operations in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Elster Group also sells heating equipment to furnace and boiler makers. Subsidiary Elster American Meter, sells gas meters and regulation equipment under the Elster American Meter brand in the US. Elster Group filed to go public in late 2010.

Emerson Electric company, generally known as just Emerson, makes a host of electrical, electromechanical, and electronic products, many of which are used to control gases, liquids, and electricity. Emerson pursues an active, aggressive acquisition strategy (with select divestitures along the way) in building up its global business with dozens of subsidiaries. Emerson Electric company gathers its 60-plus business units and divisions under eight Emerson Brands. It has more than 250 manufacturing locations, with about 165 locations outside of the US. Foreign operations make up more than half of Emerson's sales.

With CAT-like tread, Empire Southwest has created a heavy equipment sales, rental, and leasing empire in the US Southwest. One of the largest Caterpillar dealerships in the US, Empire Southwest operates through five divisions: hydraulic service, machinery, power systems, precision machining, and transport. Empire company's equipment includes backhoes, compactors, dozers, front shovels, loaders, pipelayers, telehandlers, and tractors. It also handles equipment used for mining and forestry projects. Empire Southwest also carries batteries, power generators, engines, and tools, and has a service department.

Endries company, a part of Ferguson Enterprises since 2005, offers vendor-managed inventory and distribution systems; engineering and technical support; and fasteners, pipes, pneumatics, valves, fittings, and other mechanical components to OEMs throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Endries company's vendor-managed inventory services are designed to ensure that inventory is replenished on demand and thus to reduce customers' costs. Endries was founded in 1970 as Bob Endries Auto Specialties.

ENGEL AUSTRIA GmbH company is one of the world's largest manufacturers of injection molding and plastics processing machines, with nine production plants in Europe, North America, and Asia, and subsidiaries in 27 countries. Among its products are machines designed to process elastomers or rubber compounds, which are used for sealing, sound proofing, and shock absorbing. ENGEL serves five main industries: automotive (instrument panels), packaging (buckets and CD/DVD cases), medical (syringe parts), teletronics (cell phone parts), and technical molding (screwdrivers, shower heads, and gardening tools). ENGEL AUSTRIA GmbH was founded in 1945 by Ludwig Engel and is still 100% family-owned.

Engman-Taylor Company (ETCO) has the right tool for the right job at the right time. The family-owned enterprise distributes tools (metal cutting tools, grinders, and saws) and other products such as adhesives and sealants, fasteners, material handling devices, and pneumatic and hydraulic equipment to manufacturing companies. ETCO also provides a comprehensive line of machine tools. ETCO's origin dates back to 1945, when brothers Carl and Joe Engman founded Engman Brothers in Milwaukee. It adapted its current name in 1956 after Bob Taylor acquired the company. Chairman Dick Star and Ed Melicher bought Engman-Taylor Company, Inc. in 1974, but kept its name.

EnPro company's Sealing Products segment offers gaskets, metal and non-metal seals, compression packing, rotary lip seals, elastomeric seals, hydraulic components, expansion joints, and PTFE parts. Its Engineered Products segment makes bearings, air compressors, vacuum pumps, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial tooling systems under GGB and Compressor Products International brands. EnPro company's Engine Products and Services segment makes heavy-duty, medium-speed diesel and natural gas engines under the Fairbanks Morse Engine brand name. EnPro Industries nets a little more than half of its sales in the US.

Enprotech Corp. company, a subsidiary of ITOCHU International, manufactures, upgrades, and retrofits production equipment used in a slew of businesses. Its lines range from automation and control products, beverage processing and refrigeration equipment (subsidiaries BevCorp and RDM Technologies) to industrial equipment, machinery repair, and rebuild (Enprotech Mechanical Services), steel production equipment manufacturing (Enprotech Steel Services), and, even construction of manufacturing plants (subsidiary Xytel). Enprotech's customer roster includes North American automobile, beverage processing, petrochemical, steel, and various heavy industries.

EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems has its eye on the laser-sintering systems business. EOS company's products are divided into three divisions: EOSING P, which creates models, prototypes, and end products from plastic; EOSINT M, which produces parts and tooling for injection molding from metal powders; and EOSINT S, which allows direct production of molds and cores in foundry sand for metal casting. Customers include companies in the aerospace, automotive, electronics, medical, and robotics industries. EOS was founded by CEO and majority shareholder Hans Langer in 1989.

ERIKS group distributes mechanical engineering components to more than 100,000 customers in the chemical, food, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, refining, and metal industries. The company sells some 600,000 components used in the manufacture of sealing technology, power transmission, flow technology, industrial plastics, and tools and maintenance products. Such products include O-rings, electrical and mechanical transmissions, valves, and plastic piping. ERIKS additionally provides technical and logistics services to buyers. While most of the company's sales come from Western Europe, its worldwide operations include branches in Central Europe, the Middle East, the US, and Southeast Asia (including China).

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