Aberdeen Fabrication (A-Fab) is steel going strong in the Granite City. Aberdeen Fabrication founded in 1983, fabricates steel components and pipe work and provides services such as installation, maintenance, and welding. A-Fab primarily serves the offshore oil and gas, marine, and steel fabrication industries. Its list of clients includes GlobalSantaFe, OBC Shipping, Technip Coflexip, Stena Drilling, and Transocean SedcoForex. The company has manufactured parts including submarine structures and skidding systems for offshore drilling rigs.

Acertec Limited (formerly Acertec plc) produces large body parts for car manufacturers, and provides engineering services to the mining and construction industries. Acertec's two divisions include: Stadco (automotive stampings/assemblies) and Acertec Construction Products (formerly BRC; engineering services for mining, civil engineering, building, security industries). In addition to the UK, Acertec has operations in Germany, East Asia, and Russia. Customers include Bentley, Jaguar, Landrover, Aston Martin, BMW, and Ford. Candover Investments owns more than 20% of the company. Acertec delisted its stock and became a private company in 2009.

Acme Alliance, a subsidiary of Lovejoy Industries, specializes in die casting parts (aluminum, magnesium, and zinc), thxomolding (metal casting and plastic injection molding), permanent moldings, aluminum extrusions, and sheet metal stampings. The company touts its capabilities as a one-stop-shop for metal machining and gasketing, to finishing, and mechanical assembly, as well as logistics and resource services. Positioned as a strategic alliance of international companies, Acme Alliance claims a competitive edge in streamlining all aspects of component development and production.

ADF Group designs, engineers, manufactures, and installs structural steel elements for non-residential construction applications such as skyscrapers, as well as provides engineering services. ADF has built commercial and sports complexes and public infrastructures, including the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum and the Columbus Center and the Freedom Tower in New York. The company also makes bolt and metal fasteners, provides metal surface treatment, and rents heavy construction equipment. Customers include general contractors and engineering firms, mainly in North America. The Paschini family owns the company.

Advanced Cast Products is not a challenging series of performances from a drama class, but it is a class act when it comes to iron products. The subsidiary of Neenah Foundry makes molds and assembles ductile iron products at its single foundry and production facility. The company makes ductile iron, austempered ductile iron, finished, machined, painted, and assembled cast products. Its 15,000-sq.-ft. machining facility houses state-of-the-art CNC machining centers, including double spindled lathes, horizontal machining centers, vertical machining centers, and custom-built lathes. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February 2010 and emerged later that year along with parent Neenah Foundry.

Ahresty Wilmington is a subsidiary of Japan-based Ahresty Corporation with operations that include die castings, machining, and parts assembly. It primarily makes aluminum die castings used as component parts for the automotive industry. The company has a monthly output of about 1,500 tons and uses advanced alpha core pin, gas-free casting, and pore-free casting technologies to make bearing caps, oil pump covers, oil pans, camshaft cases, engine blocks, and transmission control valve housings, among other products. Customers include Magna Powertrain, Nissan North America, Saturn Corporation, and Honda of America.

Aircom Manufacturing is a contract manufacturer with a diverse customer base in the automotive, industrial, medical, and telecommunications markets. The company prides itself in providing a comprehensive range of services to its customers, offering everything from initial product design and prototyping to production and distribution. Its manufacturing services include injection molding, sheet metal fabrication, welding, wire harnesses, precision stamping, tool making, engineering services, assembly, and decorating. It offers supply chain management and distribution. Aircom Manufacturing also makes intricate magnets and subassemblies for individual applications.

Ajax Metal Processing is cleaning up the market when it comes to hardening and protecting small metal parts, such as nuts and bolts, primarily for customers in the automobile manufacturing industry. Services include heat treating, plating, adhesive and sealant application, annealing, cleaning, and coating. The company's wire rod annealing and pickling equipment includes four surface combustion batch-type furnaces with a total annealing capacity of 130 tons per day, and a continuous eight-zone furnace with an annealing capacity of 100 tons per day. Ajax Metal Processing operates two plants in Michigan and one in Indiana.

Allied Holdings is hanging on to a group of electrical and metals processing and distribution companies on behalf of its parent, Tyco International. Its electrical and infrastructure segment makes conduits and cables and cable management and metal framing systems. The pipe and tube segments makes, you guessed it, pipes and tubes as well as fence framework and structural steel sheets; all are available in a range of sizes. Allied Holdings offers its products through home improvement retailers, electrical and plumbing distributors, OEMs, and general contractors in North America, Brazil, the UK, France, Australia, and New Zealand. Tyco plans to spin off Allied Holdings to its shareholders in early 2011.

Allied Tube and Conduit, a subsidiary of Tyco International, manufactures over 400,000 tons of galvanized steel tubing a year for electrical conduit, mechanical tubing, fire sprinkler pipe, and chain-link fencing. Products include aluminum conduit, elbows/couplings, and PVC conduit and fittings. Allied builds metal framing, cable trays, and such products as garage storage systems, sold under the Off the Floor brand. The one-stop-shop company offers contract manufacturing and steel coil processing services, along with tube and pipe fabrication. Allied caters to commercial and residential construction, as well as to electrical, fire, and government security.

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