Established in 1938 as Shibaura Machine Tool, Toshiba Machine Company adopted the Toshiba name in 1961. Toshiba, however, has since sold close to 20% of its stake in Toshiba Machine, down from about 30%. Toshiba Machine Company manufactures precision and plastic processing machinery, dye-casting machines, and hydraulic equipment. It serves a breadth of industries, from automotive and aerospace to die and mold, energy, and construction. Toshiba Machine's products include printing presses, machine tools, semiconductor manufacturing equipment (through independent subsidiary NuFlare Technology), and electronic controls. It partners on machine research and development with Sanjo Seiki, and Krauss Maffei.

Japan Vilene is responsible for keeping the shape and structure of garments.one of the main products manufactured by the non-woven textiles company. Japan Vilene also makes belt, bra, and kimono sash padding for the apparel industry. Other products serve the medical (surgical bandages and gowns), industrial (photocopier cleaning rolls), and automotive (air filters and floor mats) industries. Top shareholders are Dainippon Ink and Chemicals and Freudenberg Beteiligungs; each owns about 23% of the company. Founded in 1960, Japan Vilene primarily serves customers in Japan through six domestic offices and factories.

Wolverine Tube is one of North America's largest makers of copper and copper alloy tube for commercial products, Wolverine sells directly to OEMs. The company makes a range of commercial custom tubing, including industrial (for residential air-conditioning units), technical (for heat exchangers), copper alloy (for utilities), and fabricated (for automotive, electrical, HVAC, and other applications) products, as well as wholesale tube for standard air-conditioning and refrigeration. Its Micro-Cooling Division provides thermal management products for electronics and military/aerospace applications. Wolverine Tube gets most of its sales in North America.

The KSB Group is one of the leading producers of pumps, valves and related systems. Annual sales revenue is approximately 2000 million euro. More than 14,000 employees around the world work for maximum customer satisfaction in building services, industry and water utilities, the energy sector and mining. KSB is increasingly a service partner and provides complete hydraulic systems for water supply and drainage. KSB has more than 30 manufacturing sites in 19 countries. At each of them, we produce our pumps and valves to global quality standards. The pump range covers a vast spectrum - from domestic rainwater utilization systems to process pumps or power station boiler feed units. Valves come in a choice of designs, sizes and materials for a whole spread of applications.

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.

Sencorp Company designs and manufactures packaging equipment, from thermoforming machines to blister packagers, lab sealers, as well as custom-built machines for specialized wraps. Its line appeared in 1946, when a predecessor company launched the Sentinel sealer. Sencorp equipment packages electronics, food, and pharmaceuticals, as well as testing material seals and car parts shields. It holds global manufacturing rights to Enviroshell, an eco-package sealer. The privately held company evolved from a management buyout of DT Industries' Converting Technologies, backed by investment firm Management Capital.

Founded over 35 years ago to build chillers and cooling systems primarily for the plastics industry, BERG have developed an enviable reputation for designing and manufacturing state-of-the-art process cooling equipment for numerous industries, including: Plastics; Automotive; Energy; Pulp and Paper; Printing; Metal Working; Chemical; Food; and many others. Expansion through natural growth and acquisitions has positioned us well in the global economy.BERG engineering and technical sales department are experienced in refrigeration, fluid pumping, and heat transfer and work hand-in-hand to deliver the desired results. BERG consultative approach to designing solutions for industrial cooling applications has been widely accepted and is largely responsible for BERG high level of customer satisfaction. Aided by BERG industry exclusive and proprietary Parametric Engineering Program, in combination with advanced CAD systems and years of practical experience, BERG Team is well equipped to provide innovative design solutions incorporating energy conservation, heat recovery, central control & monitoring, and most importantly: Customer Production Efficiency.

Centria is the world leader in custom-engineered architectural metal enclosure systems. CENTRIA also provides extensive coil-coating capabilities for a range of industries, including automotive and residential building products. Through its H. H. Robertson Floor Systems unit, the company offers electrified cellular decking and related products. CENTRIA Worldwide sells factory foamed metal panel systems and profiled panel systems for both walls and roofs worldwide.

Milacron retooled in the '90s to focus on plastics processing technologies and industrial fluids. It leads five businesses. The largest, a plastics machinery unit makes injection molding and extrusion processing equipment used to produce dashboards to decking. Uniloy churns out blow molding systems for packaging myriad goods, and DME, parts, such as mold bases, for plastics machinery. Other units, Cimcool supplies coolants, lubricants, and cleaners for metal grinding, machining, and stamping. Manufacturing parts for wind power, oil and gas, and heavy equipment is done by Milacron Precision Machining. North America is Milacron's core market.

Southco company manufactures and distributes engineered access control hardware for applications in the automotive, computer, HVAC, industrial machinery, marine, mass transit, medical, military, networking, RV, and telecom industries. Its products include cam locks, captive fasteners, drive rivets, handles and pulls, hinges, and latches. All told the company offers some 25,000 standardized and 50,000 customized products. Southco has a global network of distributors in more than 30 countries. Outside the US, Southco has operations in Asia and Europe.

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