Asahi Glass Company shatters the conventional image of glassmakers. The world's #1 maker of flat glass also claims the top spot in automotive glass, plasma display panel substrates, and fluorinated resins. Glass for construction, automotive, and other applications account for half of Asahi Glass' overall sales. The company's Electronics and Display division makes high-purity silicon carbide and synthetic quartz glass for semiconductors and glass substrates for LCDs, while its Chemicals unit manufactures soda ash, caustic soda, and other specialty chemicals. Subsidiaries include US-based AGC America and French glassmaker Glaverbel.

ABB Limited-Thailand (THABB) makes process control automatic. A subsidiary of Switzerland-based ABB, Ltd, THABB manufactures an array of industrial automation products for use in Thai industry. ABB company is comprised of five divisions: Power Products (voltage products and transformers); Power Systems (power generation and transmission); Automation Products (motors, power electronics, and drives); Process Automation (control and analytical systems, force measurement); and Robotics (industrial robots and software). In addition to its manufacturing center, THABB operates two electrical service workshops in neighboring Thailand provinces. Customers include state agencies and private companies.

Littelfuse company is the world's #1 fuse maker. In addition to its fuses, Littelfuse's other circuit protection devices include positive temperature coefficient devices that limit current when too much is being supplied and electrostatic discharge suppressors that redirect transient high voltage. Littelfuse company's thyristors protect telecommunications circuits from transient voltage caused by lightning strikes. Littelfuse's 4,000-plus customers include electronics manufacturers (Hewlett-Packard and Samsung), automakers (Ford, GM, Honda, and Toyota), and the automotive aftermarket (AutoZone and Pep Boys). Littelfuse company gets about two-thirds of its sales outside the US.

Trend Technologies manufactures metal and plastic enclosures and casings for the automotive, computer, medical, networking, and communications industries. It offers mold and die fabrication, soft tool metal fabrication, plastic injection molding, metal stamping, finishing, and assembly. The company has expertise in every part of the engineering process, including design, tooling, production, assembly and testing, quality control, and logistics. Trend Technologies has plants in North America (US and Mexico), Ireland, China, Malaysia, and Singapore, as well as a design office in India.

The more industries there are, the more MOGAS Industries is in demand. MOGAS Industries, Inc. company makes severe-service metal ball valves for mining, power, process, and special industrial applications. Serving industries where ball valves have to function well in harsh environments, MOGAS Industries has experience in working with abrasive particulates, acidic anhydride, corrosive media, heavy solids build-up, and viscous sludge. The company's engineers visit a client's site, tour the plant's valve boneyard, and discuss plant operations with end user personnel as part of its overall design and manufacturing package. MOGAS Industries, Inc. company, founded in 1973, has sales and service representation in more than 40 countries.

Komori America thinks you'd be hard-pressed to find a better printing equipment manufacturer. The US subsidiary of Japan-based Komori Corporation makes and sells such products as sheetfed and Web offset printing presses and precision printing machinery. Komori America has a sales force comprised of both direct and dealer representatives in North America. Komori America company maintains headquarters, a technical product center, and a national parts center (stocking more than 260,000 parts) in Illinois, with additional regional sales, service, and parts distribution centers in California, Georgia, New Jersey, and Ohio. It offers financing on its printing systems through subsidiary Komori Leasing, Inc.

Fu Sheng Industrial makes industrial air compressors, golf club heads, and lead frames for integrated circuits. Its Fu Sheng Machinery division, founded in 1953, makes air compressors, refrigerant compressors, and air dryers. A top manufacturer of golf club heads, Fu Sheng Sporting Goods sells to every premium golf club maker in the world. Its US-based FS-Precision Tech subsidiary makes titanium and alloy investment castings such as orthopedic implants, turbochargers, jet engine diffusers, and other parts. The company operates globally through subsidiaries in China, Germany, Taiwan, Vietnam, and the US. Oaktree Capital Management acquired control of Fu Sheng in 2007 for about $850 million.

Servotronics, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets control components and consumer products in the United States and internationally. Servotronics company operates in two business segments, Advanced Technology Group and Consumer Products Group. The Advanced Technology Group segment designs, manufactures, and markets various servo-control components, which convert an electrical current into a mechanical force or movement and other related products. It offers torque motors, electromagnetic actuators, hydraulic valves, and pneumatic valves primarily to the commercial aerospace, missile, aircraft, and government related industries, as well as to medical and industrial markets. This segment also produces metallic seals of various cross-sectional configurations, which fit between two surfaces to produce leak-proof joint, as well as to close tolerances from alloy steels. It markets its products to the United States Government, government prime contractors, government subcontractors, commercial manufacturers, and end users through Servotronics's professional staff. The Consumer Products Group segment designs, manufactures, and sells various cutlery products, including kitchen knives, such as steak, carving, bread, butcher, and paring knives for household use, as well as for use in restaurants, institutions, and private industries; and pocket and other types of knives for hunting, fishing, and camping.

Bodycote plc applies heat treatment and metal joining, and thermal processing, to improve the wear, resistance, and strength of metals, such as those used in jet engine turbine blades and auto engines. Other services are materials testing and hot isostatic pressing -- a process that utilizes high-pressure inert gas and high temperatures to improve the performance of metals and other materials. Through a global network of plants, Bodycote serves a diverse group of OEMs in the aerospace, defense, power generation, and oil and gas industries, as well as automotive, construction, machine building, medical, and transportation.

Work at Advanced Drainage Systems (ADS) isn't going down the drain, it is the drain. ADS manufactures high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes for storm and sanitary sewers, agricultural drainage, road and highway construction, and residential and commercial development. The corrugated HDPE lineup runs from culverts to drains, fittings, grates, grease interceptors, and leaching chambers. ADS even offers a mix of green building products. Customers are mining and timber operators as well as engineers in highway construction and waste management systems. ADS products lie under fabled US athletic turf and recreation sites, such as Augusta National, Dodger Stadium, and Lambeau Field. ADS is an employee-owned company.

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