El Products company has developed a series of energy-efficient night-lights that stay cool to the touch. Its Power-Fail LimeLite runs on batteries for 72 hours after a power failure. Other products include night-lights and clocks sold under the LimeLite and Indiglo names. The company also makes a line of 110 volt and solar charged exit signs for commercial use. EI Products has a marketing agreement with GE to sell its products under the GE brand name to retail markets.

L.R. Nelson Corporation makes and sells more than 1,000 pieces of professional watering equipment, including sprinklers, valves, and controllers, to commercial customers. The firm sells through Home Depot, Menard, Grainger and otter retailers and distributors. L.R. Nelson was founded in 1904 by Lewen R. Nelson and was purchased by CEO David Ransburg in 1972. In 2009 the company sold its Nelson Consumer Products business (which sells to the residential market) and its Sunterra subsidiary (which distributes decorative home and garden products) to Robert Bosch in order to concentrate on its core commercial business.

Leeds Group is now a small collection of subsidiary companies. Its Hemmers-Itex Textil Import Export subsidiary distributes cloth for apparel and home furnishings across Europe. The company withdrew from textile manufacturing, its traditional business, as the industry began to contract in Europe and move to emerging markets. It is now primarily focused on the import and sale of Asian fabrics in Europe. Today it sells about 35 million linear feet of fabric per year. Johan Claesson and UK entrepreneur Peter Gyllenhammer are major shareholders of Leeds Group.

ThyssenKrupp Elevator Americas Corp. is the North American business unit of one of the world's leading elevator makers ThyssenKrupp Elevator. ThyssenKrupp Elevator Americas manufactures and maintains elevators throughout the US and Canada. Its products also include escalators, moving sidewalks, freight elevators, Oildraulic hydraulic elevators (for smaller buildings), traction elevators, and elevator fixtures. ThyssenKrupp Elevator company's more than 200 sales and service locations help serve large construction projects. ThyssenKrupp Elevator Americas' products have been installed at the Time Warner Center in New York and the Wynn Las Vegas casino hotel.

Wozniak Industries was founded in 1986 to provide OEM manufacturers with precision-engineered components that meet the most exacting standards for design, quality and on-time delivery. Wozniak Industries is a $100 million dollar family-owned and operated company, built upon family values. Two generations of the Wozniak family are deeply involved in managing the business and ensuring that it remains true to its founding vision and keeps its entrepreneurial spirit and passion for exceeding customer expectations alive.

Habasit America company makes power transmission belts and conveyor belts, along with related gears and motors, for material handling equipment in a variety of industries. Habasit America's products move automotive parts, beverages, electronic components, food, packaging, paper and tissue, pharmaceuticals, textiles, tires, tobacco, wood, and other commodities. Its conveyor belts also are used in airport baggage handling systems and supermarket check-out stands. Habasit America's Swiss parent company, Habasit Holding AG, operates globally.

Propex Operating company produces polypropylene fabrics and fibers for the consumer products, industrial manufacturing, and construction sectors. Its offerings include carpet backings and other flooring materials, internal-construction fabrics for furnishings (sofas and beds) and automobile interiors, geotextiles (used by engineering and construction firms for soil erosion control and reinforcement), as well as fibers used to reinforce concrete. Some of its brands include Pyramat, Fibermesh, Duon,and CURV. Propex is the US operating arm of Propex Holdings, which is owned by private equity firm Wayzata Investment Partners.

Kalamazoo Fabricating makes electrical panels, controls and drive components using its media blasting, painting facilities, and various lathes, mills, and saws. A division of Envirodyne Technologies, the company has expertise in the areas of custom equipment fabrication, coolant filtration, material handling systems, conveyors, and wash systems. Products are finished using dedicated media blasting (glass bead, sand, walnut shell, etc.) and paint. Kalamazoo Fabricating's installation of controls, drive components, and electrical panels take place at its plant's final assembly building. Industrial conveyor maker PRAB acquired Envirodyne in May 2008.

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.

Porteous Fastener was founded by Bud Porteous in 1966. Porteous Fastener Company (PFC) distributes more than 40,000 different types of fasteners from 16 locations across the US; it also has a warehouse in Vancouver, Canada. The company touts itself as the nation's largest privately held master distributor and importer of fasteners, and combines a diverse range of products (various anchor products, bolts, nuts, screws, threaded rods, and washers) with a range of packaging options (from standard quarter cartons, to farm box and small box packaging, to customized plastic bagging). Porteous Fastener Company's mill division is located in Taiwan.

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