Ibstock Brick has literally helped build Great Britain (and its own bottom line) brick by brick. Ibstock Brick company, which started as Ibstock Collieries in 1899 to quarry clay and mine coal for brick manufacturers, is now the largest brick manufacturer in the UK, ahead of #2 Hanson and #3 Wienerberger. With nearly two dozen brick and paver manufacturing plants located throughout the UK, Ibstock has an annual capacity of more than 900 million bricks -- about 15 per UK resident. Rather than doling it out to the populace, however, its brick is used primarily in residential housing construction. Construction giant CRH plc acquired Ibstock in 1999.

Marzotto's reputation is made out of whole cloth. Manifattura Lane Gaetano Marzotto & Figli and its affiliates are returning to their roots and concentrating on the textile side of the company's business, after having spun off Italian haute couture fashion house Valentino and other apparel-related operations into a separate company, called Valentino Fashion Group, in 2005. Textile operations remaining under the Marzotto flag include production of woolen and linen fabrics, yarns, and linens and blankets. Some of Marzotto's companies include Fratelli Tallia di Delfina, Estethia, and Lanificio G.B. Conte. The Marzotto family controls the company, which Luigi Marzotto founded in 1836.

Econolite company now manufactures and distributes much more sophisticated traffic control equipment. Its products including loop traffic control systems, vehicle detection systems, traffic control cabinets, and signal display equipment. Econolite boasts about 5,000 arterial systems in operation, controlling 100,000-plus intersections, and more than 90,000 wide-area video vehicle detection systems set at intersections and on freeways. Econolite began in 1933 when company founders developed a stop sign with a built-in flashing red light, controlled by a bi-metal sun valve.

Walker Die Casting is a producer of high-pressure aluminum castings for industrial applications. Walker Die Casting provides custom die fabrication services to customers in the automotive, appliance, lawn and garden, marine, and power tool industries. Products include parts such as adapter plates, brackets, oil pans, gear cases, and housings for transmissions, engines, axles, and flywheels. Walker Die Casting also offers product design, finishing, testing, machining, and warehousing services. The company was founded in 1958 by Robert Walker.

Rowecord Engineering is a manufacturer of steel beams and columns, footbridges, railtrack bridges, platework fabrications, portal frame structures, and trusswork. The company provides services including design, engineering, manufacturing, shop blasting, and structural erection to make its fabricated steel products. Rowecord Engineering serves such customers as Corus Group plc, GEC Alsthom, and Schal International. It has provided materials for projects including blast furnaces, commercial construction, and suspension bridges. The company, founded in 1967, has branch offices and workshops in Swansea and Baglan in South Wales.

Ampac Packaging packs a lot into its products. Ampac Packaging company manufactures flexible packaging including stand-up pouches and rollstock for food and beverages, high-end performance flexible packaging materials for pharmaceutical and health and beauty products, and bags of all styles for garments and more. Ampac also makes security products such as cash transfer and deposit bags. Offering 200-plus custom films, Ampac Packaging company courts business from retailers, restaurants, and groceries, to convenience stores and even gaming venues. A private investor group comprising Prudential Capital, Falcon Investment Advisors, and Ampac executives has owned Ampac Packaging company since 2000.

Caraustar Recovered Fiber Group (RFG), a division of Caraustar Industries, provides recovered fiber for use as paperboard through its processing plants and recycling centers located across the US. Recovered paper is processed into paperboard, which in turn is converted into products such as tubes, cores, composite containers, cartons, and custom packaging. Through its own facilities and through brokerage operations, Caraustar RFG distributes over a million tons of paper stock annually. Caraustar Industries filed Chapter 11 in May 2009; it reorganized and emerged as a private company in August 2009, after eliminating approximately $135 million in debt. Wayzata Investment Partners is the controlling stakeholder.

Rubadue Wire opened in 1977 manufactures high quality wire and cable with a wide selection of sizes and insulating materials. The normal size range is 4 AWG to 40 AWG, with insulations offering low temperature, high temperature, high dielectric, water resistant, abrasive resistant, medical grade, UV resistant and other properties. UL, CSA, and VDE certified, ISO Registered, SGS tested, RoHS compliant.

ESCO is well ensconced as a global manufacturer of engineered metal parts, castings, and components for industrial machinery. ESCO company's two operating groups are Engineered Products and Turbine Technologies. It operates manufacturing facilities on six continents. ESCO provides such services as contract manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain management, as well as specialized services to the aerospace, construction, industrial, mining, power generation, recycling, and transportation markets. Customers include Bucyrus, Caterpillar, and Komatsu. ESCO was founded in Portland, Oregon, by C. F. Swigert in 1913 as an Electric Steel Foundry; its products at that time included trolley car replacement parts.

IDEX is a global fluidics leader serving high growth specialized markets. We are best known for our expertise in highly engineered fluidics systems and components, as well for our expertise in fire and safety products including the Jaws of Life® family of rescue and recovery tools.Our products touch lives every day. Whether it’s a life-saving rescue operation, dispensing fresh juice to a first grader or fueling aircraft, IDEX is a leader in creating enabling technology used in many of the most common everyday activities.

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