Frank A Edmunds & Co., which manufactures wooden products such as dowels, posts, and other turnings as well as wooden displays, moldings, and custom pieces. Its turning products include balls, craft items, furniture parts, game parts, handles, knobs, spindles, and novelty items. Moldings include architectural moldings, frames, and furniture parts. The company also makes specialty parts (CNC work, rollers, specialty finishing, assembling, packaging, and order fulfillment) and through its F.A. Edmunds unit, makes fine needlework and quilting frames.

Bristol Metals is the largest US manufacturer of stainless steel welded pipe. Its pipe is also made from corrosion-resistant nickel alloy and titanium. The line ranges from 1/2 to 120 inches in diameter, and 36 inches to 48-feet in length. Bristol grew in 2009 with the acquisition of carbon pipe maker Ram-Fab. Bristol serves diverse arenas -- petrochemical, mining, power (including nuclear), brewery, food processing, and pulp and paper. Its manufacture of large alloy pipe, rare among domestic pipe makers, enables the company to also enter markets for waste water treatment, liquid natural gas, and scrubbers for power industries. The company is a subsidiary of Synalloy.

Holliston company produces fabrics for a myriad of coating applications. ICG/Holliston manufactures book cloth used to cover books ranging from best-sellers to textbooks and loose-leaf binders. Other products include cloth and vinyl substrates used for applications such as labels, cloth tapes, abrasive backing, and containers. Customers include the building materials, publishing, fragrance packaging, and album/looseleaf industries. The company, formerly Industrial Coatings Group (ICG), acquired Holliston Mills in 1998; both companies were founded in the late 1800s. The company has sold its sign and banner business line to Avery Dennison.

Nicolet Plastics, Inc. (NPI), was established in 1986 in Mountain, Wisconsin. Phil Hartman, owner of Hart Tooling and Engineering, had an established business manufacturing molds for the plastics industry. Hartman, recognizing the need for an injection molding facility to compliment the mold building capabilities, founded Nicolet Plastics with Flip Hartman and Bob MacIntosh.Today, NPI comprises a 41,000 square foot production facility in Mountain, as well as other facilities in the area.

Sandvik Mining and Construction Sverige ABs one of three business segments of Swedish industrial heavy Sandvik AB; it generates about 45% of its parent's annual revenues. The unit manufactures, distributes, and services all manner of mining and construction equipment used for mineral and rock exploration and processing. Products include equipment for drilling and mechanical mining, as well as loading and transporting, crushing/sorting, demolition, and recycling. The unit is comprised of three segments: Underground Mining, Surface Mining, and Construction. The US, Finland, Sweden, and Austria are the segment's largest development units.

Vitro America™ is a leading fabricator and distributor of architectural glass and aluminum in the United States. Vitro America has built its reputation on providing the highest quality products and services to meet the needs of the architect, designer, developer, and glazing contractor. With more than 20 distribution, manufacturing and fabrication facilities throughout the United States, Vitro America offers a complete array of glass products to meet the design requirements of the complete building team. The assortment of products meld the elegance and functionality of glass, and are suited for virtually any glass application—whether in an office building, museum, restaurant, university, hospital, church or resort. Vitro America forms part of the Flat Glass business unit of Vitro, one of the largest glass manufacturers in the world backed by 100 years of experience. Vitro America is a proud member of the Glass Association of North America (GANA), the National Glass Association (NGA), the Americas Glass Association (AGA) and the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).

Donaldson Company makes filtration systems designed to remove contaminants from air and liquids. Donaldson's engine products business makes air intake and exhaust systems, liquid-filtration systems, and replacement parts; products are sold to manufacturers of construction, mining, and transportation equipment, as well as parts distributors and fleet operators. The company's industrial products include dust, fume, and mist collectors and air filtration systems used in industrial gas turbines, computer disk drives, and manufacturers' clean rooms. Donaldson has more than 100 locations worldwide, including 40 manufacturing plants.

Dart Container is a world cup winner -- not in soccer, but in foam cups and containers. It commands about half of the global market in foam cups! To make its products, Dart touts a secret molding method for expandable polystyrene. The foodservice lineup includes not just cups but lids, dinnerware, and cutlery, which is marketed through a global distribution network to hospitals, schools, and restaurants, as well as retailers. Self-sufficient, Dart builds its own molding machinery, and uses Dart trucks to deliver products from plants in the US, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, the UK, and Australia. Its recycled polystyrene is sold to manufacturers of such durables as insulation and egg cartons. Dart is family-owned.

Precision Industries offers a myriad of bearings and power transmission products. Its line also provides belting, hose, and electrical products, fasteners, tools, and safety goods. Hydraulics and pneumatics are supplied, too, including pipe, valve and fittings, lubrication and material handling products. Distribution is managed by 150-plus stocking points dotting the US, and two master distribution centers. Its supply chain services are tapped by 3M, Avery Dennison, McCormick & Co. and Coca Cola.

Ayrshire Metal Products manufactures cold-rolled steel and other steel products, including lightweight steel frames, doors and purlin and cladding systems. Ayrshire's AyrFrame is a structural steelwork modular building product used especially for the construction of hotels. Additional products include customized design and detailing software. The company maintains three manufacturing facilities, but it closed its historic Scottish factory, which opened in 1819, in Irvine, Ayrshire. Ayrshire Metal Products is owned by Knapdale (Nominees) Ltd., which is controlled by Ayrshire's chairman, Mark Wilson.

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