Tonnellerie Francois Freres crafts vessels that contain the fruit of the vine, but it doesn't suggest that you drink directly from them. Tonnellerie Francois Freres company is a manufacturer of oak wine barrels. It uses wood harvested from forests located in the Allier, Nivernais, Troncais, and Vosges regions of France. Tonnellerie Francois Frcres, the No. 2 global supplier of oak wine barrels behind rival Oeneo, serves wineries in Europe, Australia, and the Americas. It operates from facilities in Australia, France, Hungary, Spain, and the US. The Tonnellerie Francois Freres company was founded in 1910 by the grandfather of managing director Jean Francois.

Castings PLC is a group of three stand-alone manufacturing sites. Castings Ductile Cast Products and Wm Lee operate iron foundries and offer graphite and iron castings, machining, designing, and prototyping services to industrial manufacturers in the automotive, railway, and other industries. Castings counts Toyota among its customers. CNC Speedwell provides machining, surface treatment, assembly, and finishing. The group gets most of its sales from European customers, with the UK accounting for more than a third of the sales. Aberforth Partners controls almost 17% of the company's shares, while Hunter Hall Investment Management owns nearly 11% of Castings.

Chase Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of specialty tapes, laminates, sealants, and coatings, as well as in the provision of contract assembly services for the electronics industry worldwide. Chase Corporation company operates in two segments, Specialized Manufacturing and Electronic Manufacturing Services. The Specialized Manufacturing segment offers insulating and conducting materials for the manufacture of electrical and telephone wire and cable, electrical splicing, and terminating and repair tapes, which are marketed to wire and cable manufacturers; protective pipe coating tapes and other protectants for valves, regulators, casings, joints, metals, concrete, and wood, which are sold to oil companies, gas utilities, and pipeline companies; protectants for highway bridge deck metal supported surfaces that are sold to municipal transportation authorities; and moisture protective coatings for the electronics industry. This segment also provides laminated durable papers, which are sold primarily to the envelope converting and commercial printing industries; flexible composites and laminates for the wire and cable, aerospace, packaging, and industrial laminate markets; and expansion and control joint systems designed for roads, bridges, stadiums, and airport runways.

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.

United States Steel is the nation's #2 integrated steelmaker (behind ArcelorMittal). United States Steel operates mills throughout the Midwest in the US; in Ontario, Canada; and in Serbia and Slovakia. U.S. Steel makes sheet and semifinished steel, tubular and plate steel, and tin products; its annual production capacity is more than 30 million tons of raw steel (though its actual production rate is less than that). The company's customers are primarily in the automotive, construction, chemical, and steel service center industries. In addition, U.S. Steel offers services such as mineral resource management and engineering and consulting.

Hog Slat provides a slew of swine-related product and services. The company manufactures pig farming equipment, including floor slabs and tiles, as well as hog penning, breeding, feeding, handling, and watering supplies. It also provides construction services for hog stalls (farrowing crates) and raises some 400,000 hogs per year at its own facilities. Hog Slat company is owned and run by the Herring family. Hog Slat has two sister companies, HSM Metal Fabrication and Parking Bumper Company, a manufacturer of concrete bumpers for parking spaces.

Litco International is not about to let go of its leading role in the materials handling market. The company operates two strategic business units: The Molded Products Group and The Product Protection/Damage Prevention Team. The Molded Products Group focuses on the design, manufacture and sales of pallets and other products that are three-dimensional and primarily made of wood fiber. Litco International's Product Protection/Damage Prevention Team concentrates on the production of dunnage materials (air bags, corner protectors, corrugated pads, corrugated void fill products, and separator sheets).

Holophane and brand of Acuity Brands, Holophane makes lighting fixtures and systems for industrial, commercial, and outdoor markets. Its largest product line, industrial fixtures, features lighting for vast indoor spaces (retail spaces, convention centers, factories, warehouses, etc.). Holophane also makes lighting products for large outdoor areas such as highway interchanges, and it offers commercial and institutional lighting for schools and offices. Its ISD SuperGlass prismatic lighting technology allows reflectors to cast more light. Holophane was founded in 1895 in London, and its founder helped start the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America.

The Manitowoc Company, Inc. (MTW) is a multi-industry, capital goods manufacturer. It operates in two markets: Cranes and Related Products (Crane) and Foodservice Equipment (Foodservice). Crane is the provider of engineered lifting equipment for the global construction industry, including lattice-boom cranes, tower cranes, mobile telescopic cranes, and boom trucks. The Crane products are marketed under the Manitowoc, Grove, Potain, National, Shuttlelift, Dongyue, and Crane Care brand names. It is used in a range of applications, including energy and utilities, petrochemical and industrial projects, infrastructure development, such as road, bridge and airport construction, and commercial and high-rise residential construction. Foodservice is engaged in manufacturing of commercial foodservice equipment serving the ice, beverage, refrigeration, food-preparation, cooking needs of restaurants, convenience stores, hotels, healthcare, and institutional applications.

Williams Advanced Materials is a worldwide manufacturer of metal and metal alloy materials. The company's precious, non-precious, and specialty metal products are used in the magnetic and optical data storage markets, as well as the solar/photovoltaic industry, and the hybrid, photonic, semiconductor, and wireless segments of the microelectronics industry. Williams Advanced Materials (WAM) is a subsidiary of Brush Engineered Materials, which manufactures alloy products, beryllium products, electronic products, precious metal products, and engineered material systems.

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