ABB is short for A Bunch of Businesses -- though that bunch has evolved over some 130 years. ABB engineers power and automation technologies for a broad base of utility, industrial, and commercial customers. Its lines run from robots to light switches. Power products include transmission and distribution components, as well as turnkey substation systems. Automation technologies are used to monitor and control equipment and processes in industrial plants and utilities. The company has established a presence in about 100 countries, with its core businesses concentrated in power and automation markets. In 2009 developing geographies represented more than 50% of ABB sales.

Guilford Mills used to make fabrics to cover your ride and your hide. Today it focuses on your ride. The textile maker produces fabrics for car and heavy truck cab interiors, from bodycloth to headliners. Its specialty products group manufactures consumer and industrial fabrics, including loop closure fabrics (used in medical braces), window coverings, technical stretch pieces for athletic wear, and, even shoe linings and casket liners (sadly, a promising market). Johnson Controls and Lear Corporation are among its customers. Founded in 1946, Guilford has sales and manufacturing locations in the US, Asia, and Europe. Guilford Mills has been owned by private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management since 2004.

Swift Galey designs, manufactures, and distributes decorative and workwear textiles for healthcare, hospitality, and institutional use. Healthcare products include bedding, surgical gowns, and incontinence care. Its hospitality goods tie in custom towels, performance blankets, and woven sheeting. Its workwear line offers coveralls to sport jackets. Bedspreads, flame-resistant drapery, and window treatments are part of its decorative mix. The company manages its own R&D, manufacturing, distribution as well as pushes linen management, and technical services. The privately held company is led by its founder's grandson, Gary Heiman.

KONE began its elevator business on the ground floor and is working its way up. The US subsidiary of Finland's KONE sells, manufactures, upgrades, and maintains elevators, escalators, and automatic building doors. The KONE EcoSpace line of elevators is an environmentally friendly (using no oil) traction elevator that offers more space while conserving energy for residential, office, and public access use. Other brand names include the KONE HH Series and MX Series line of hydraulic elevators, as well as the KONE EcoSystem MR elevator. KONE USA accounts for about one-fifth of its parent company's elevator and escalator sales.

Formerly Dauphin Graphic Machines, Manugraph DGM company makes, directly sells, and services new and used printing presses used by newspapers and other players in the publishing industry. Manugraph DGM company also offers an extensive inventory of parts, including rollers, fountain blades, and bevel gears, and provides 24/7 emergency services to keep its customers' presses rolling. Manugraph DGM, once a subsidiary of Pamarco Technologies, was bought out in 2004 by management. In late 2006 Manugraph India acquired the company for around $19 million in cash. The acquisition created one of the largest vendors of single-width newspaper printing machines in the world.

Delachaux makes track laying equipment, elastic fastener systems, and electrification systems. Its Conductic division makes production equipment for the cable and fiber-optic sectors, and conductor bars, reeling drums, and slip-rings for the transportation industry. The metal division produces pure chromium metal to make super-alloys and high-performance alloys. The special steel unit makes rough-cast pieces and machine-finished parts. The company makes most of its sales outside of France. Holding company SOGREPAR owns more than half of Delachaux.

ONICON Incorporated is a manufacturer of highly accurate flow meters and energy measurement systems (BTU meters), which are ideally suited for HVAC, municipal water and process applications. ONICON offers engineered, customized solutions for today's flow measurement challenges...at prices that are competitive with distributed, "off the shelf products.

Hill & Smith Infrastructure Products Group (IPG) is a family of more than a dozen companies that provide a range of infrastructure and transportation products. The Hill & Smith Holdings subsidiary manufactures everything from bridge parapets and wire fences to steel tunnels and traffic poles. Its Hill & Smith division makes road safety barriers. IPG accounts for about half of its parent's revenue (the holding company's other segments deal in galvanizing services and building products). IPG focuses on four main sectors of the infrastructure market: roads, rail, security, and utilities.

MWV is a global leader in packaging and packaging solutions. We provide innovative products and valuable services to consumer products companies in the Beauty and Personal Care, Healthcare, Food, Beverage, Food Service, Tobacco, Home & Garden, and Commercial Printing industries – solutions that help them take their products to market and shape their brands in the consumer marketplace. But packaging is not all we do. We operate additional businesses to drive maximum value for our shareholders, including Consumer & Office Products, Specialty Chemicals, and the Community Development and Land Management Group.

The marks that Bridgestone Americas (BSAM) leaves on this world have everything to do with tires, and more. A Bridgestone Corp. subsidiary, the company is best known for its Bridgestone, Firestone, and Dayton branded tires for cars, trucks, motorcycles, tractors, as well as earthmoving equipment and aircraft. BSAM operates through a family of companies; in addition to consumer and commercial tire making and marketing across the Americas, it drives more than 2,000 vehicle service and tire outlets in the US (including Firestone Complete Auto Care, and Fleet Care). BSAM puts its mark on a range of construction products, too, along with natural rubber, industrial fibers and textiles, and Airide vehicle air springs.

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