Toro company makes lawn mowers and other products for professional and residential use. Toro's professional products include irrigation equipment, mowers for commercial use, riding and walk-behind power mowers for golf course fairways and greens, trimmers, and utility vehicles. Some professional brands are Toro, Rain Master, Exmark, Irritrol, and Dingo. Its residential products, sold to distributors, home centers, and mass retailers, include walk-behind and riding lawn mowers, lawn tractors, electrical trimmers, and snow blowers. Brand names in this sector include Toro, Rain Master, Irritrol, Lawn Genie, and Lawn-Boy.

Parkdale Mills cotton and cotton-polyester blend yarns and specializes in spun yarn that winds up in such goods as sheets, towels, underwear, and jeans. Parkdale Mills' global slate of customers include Jockey International, Lands' End, L.L. Bean, and Springmaid. The company operates and owns 66% of Parkdale America, a joint venture with polyester and nylon yarn maker Unifi. The company has about two dozen plants in the US, Columbia, and Mexico, and a fiber research center. Its cotton consumption represents 30% of total US cotton demand.

SKF USA, a subsidiary of Swedish ball bearings giant Aktiebolaget SKF, manufactures roller and ball bearings, bearing housings, seals, and other related products for the machine tool industry. SKF USA company manufactures maintenance and lubrication systems, condition monitoring products (software used for rapid bearing frequency comparison and analysis), mechatronics for actuation of motion systems (guidance systems and actuators), and magnetic bearings. In addition, SKF USA offers its customers engineering, consulting, and logistics services. Its SKF Precision Technologies unit offers such products as linear guide slides and systems for motorized spindles, used in milling, boring, and grinding.

Marmon monitors a melange of more than 130 autonomous manufacturing and service companies. A subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, Marmon's 11 manufacturing units make automotive components and trailers, food service equipment, wire and cable, industrial materials and components, consumer products, transportation equipment, building products, water-treatment products, and more. Services include marketing and distribution. Marmon is an international association of companies that operates about 250 facilities in more than 40 countries. Chicago's Pritzker family (owners of the Hyatt hotel chain) sold a 60% stake in Marmon to Berkshire Hathaway for $4.5 billion in 2008.

Fiber is an important part of one's diet; OFS BrightWave's fiber optics are an important part of network connectivity. The company's fiber-optic cable products include central tube, fusion splicers, specialty photonics, loose tube, ribbon, air-blown fiber cables, and connectivity components. Furukawa Electric acquired the optical fiber cable business of Lucent (now Alcatel-Lucent) and formed OFS BrightWave and its sister company, OFS Fitel, which makes optical fibers and related products. The OFS group operates additional fiber-optic plants in Denmark, Germany, Russia, and across the US, and has sales offices around the world.

Fort Wayne manufactures round, flat, shaped wires, drawn filled tubing (DFT), and drawn brazed strand (DBS), which are used in medical devices such as catheters, guidewires, defibrillators, pacemakers, stents, and surgical needles. Fort Wayne Metals' medical wire is also used for dental and orthodontic, endoscopic, laparoscopic, and orthopedic applications. The company does not draw copper. Its expertise is in the drawing of stainless steel, titanium and titanium alloys, and specialty alloys such as Nitinol (nickel and titanium). It has manufacturing facilities in Ireland and the US, as well as a direct sales organization in the Netherlands.

MacLean-Fogg Company has grown into a worldwide enterprise with 30 North American manufacturing facilities, 10 international facilities, annual sales of nearly $800 million and a worldwide workforce of 4,500 people.High performance fastener and component systems, forgings, precision machined parts, suspension and transmission components, connectors and insulators are provided to automotive, truck, trailer, off road vehicles, recreational vehicles, farm equipment, military vehicle and aerospace markets.

MetalTek International makes a variety of precision cast parts used in aerospace, mining, defense, petrochemical, and nuclear applications. It specializes in non-ferrous, stainless steel, heat and corrosion resistant alloys; its alloy casting methods include centrifugal, continuous, investment, and sand casting. Its five international facilities serve customers in more than 25 countries.

Impreso, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and distribution of paper and film products for commercial and home use in the United States and internationally. It offers continuous computer paper, point of sale/add rolls, wide format engineering rolls and inkjet media, desktop inkjet papers, high speed laser roll papers, transparencies, processed laser cut sheets, and thermal fax paper and copy paper. Impreso operates Hotsheet.com, an online Web reference directory, which lists news, travel, shopping, and other useful Web destinations. Impreso, Inc company also offers MY HotSheet service that allows users to create a database of bookmarks accessible from any Web connected computer, as well as a meta-search engine. In addition, Impreso, Inc company involves in natural spring water bottling operations in Arkansas. Impreso was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Coppell, Texas.

W.C. Bradley makes Thermos-brand grills,Lamplight Farms oil lamps, Tiki torches, and scented candles; and Lew's, Martin, Quantum, Van Staal, and Zebco fishing gear. The company's wares are sold to major retailers worldwide, including Sears, Roebuck, Home Depot, Kmart, and Wal-Mart, and through its own Web sites. It also runs a PGA Tour Stop shop in Florida. Founded in 1885 by William C. Bradley, the company is run by the family's fourth generation; chairman Steve Butler is the nephew of Bradley's grandson.

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