Park-Ohio Holdings is driven to look for trouble. The holding company, operating through Park-Ohio Industries and its subsidiaries, troubleshoots industrial supply chain logistics issues and makes a slew of fasteners and other industrial components. Its work straddles three business segments. Supply Technologies sources and procures more than 175,000 production components for OEMs in industries ranging from automotive to aerospace. Manufactured Products produces specialized systems and parts used in such industrial applications as coatings, forging, oil and gas, and rail. An Aluminum Products unit casts and machines metal parts -- knuckles, oil pans, cylinders -- used by auto, agricultural, construction, and marine OEMs.

Ingersoll-Rand plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, sale, and service of industrial and commercial products in the United States and internationally. It operates in four segments: Air Conditioning Systems and Services, Climate Control Technologies, Industrial Technologies, and Security Technologies. The Air Conditioning Systems and Services segment offers HVAC systems, dehumidifying and air cleaning products, service and parts support, and building controls, as well as financing solutions. This segment serves commercial, residential, institutional, and industrial markets. The Climate Control Technologies segment provides refrigerated display merchandisers; beverage coolers, auxiliary power units, walk-in storage coolers and freezers, and transport temperature control units for food and other perishables. The Industrial Technologies segment manufactures compressed air systems, tools, pumps, fluid handling systems, golf and utility vehicles, and micro turbines. The Security Technologies segment offers electronic and biometric access control systems and software, locks and locksets, door closers, exit devices, steel doors and frames, portable security devices, decorative hardware, and cabinet hardware, as well as time, attendance, and personnel scheduling systems. This segment serves commercial construction and residential housing markets, healthcare, retail, maritime, and transport industries, as well as educational and governmental facilities. Ingersoll-Rand plc company offers its products under the Club Car, Hussmann, Ingersoll-Rand, Schlage, Thermo King, and Trane brand names.

Canrig Drilling Technology Limited Company is a leading supplier of AC top drives for deep-water drilling applications, as well as automated catwalks, floor wrenches, and control systems. It offers fixed and portable top drives in 175-, 275-, 350-, 500-, and 750-ton capacities for installation in most land-based and offshore rigs. Canrig, which was founded in Calgary, Canada, in the late 1980s, also provides engineering and field services throughout the world. A subsidiary of Nabors Industries, Canrig makes about 60% of its sales to other Nabors units. Canrig and Epoch Well Services, a drilling data and analysis supplier, merged in 2008.

DS Smith is the UK's #1 producer of paper and corrugated packaging products. The company's lineup includes conventional cardboard packaging used to ship fresh produce, prepared foods, and other consumer goods; decorative packaging for point-of-sale displays; and heavy-duty corrugated boxes used to transport heavy or fragile products. Subsidiaries DS Smith Packaging, DS Smith Kaysersberg, and St. Regis Paper drive operations from more than 50 plants across Europe. Distribution of office products is run through its Spicers subsidiary. Subsidiary DS Smith Plastics makes plastic products required for liquid packaging and dispensing, and other applications.

Established in 1973, Jablite rapidly grew into the UK's largest producer of expanded polystyrene (EPS) insulation products and developed Jablite into the brand leader. Since 1996, we've been a member of Synbra Group b.v, which operates with autonomous business units, putting us in the unique position of being able to respond quickly to our own local markets, whilst enjoying the added benefit of sharing the resources and technology of a major, global group. Today, the Jablite name is synonymous with quality, innovation and customer investment. Totally committed to the concept of a customer-supplier partnership, we work closely with you, the customer, to provide the products and services you require and, through continuous improvement, we develop new, innovative products as your needs change.

German and Italian, GILDEMEISTER Italiana is a specialist maker of multi-spindle automatic lathes. GILDEMEISTER company also makes universal lathes, computer numerical control Swiss-type lathes, and other machine tools and accessories. It sells itself as being expert in "straight turning" technology, in which the length of the turned parts are quite a bit larger than the diameter. GILDEMEISTER Italiana has production facilities in Brembate di Sopra, Castelleone, and Tortona, Italy. Along with parent company GILDEMEISTER AG, the group aims to dominate the global lathe market.

Plastic Suppliers is in the film industry, but you probably won't find a Cecil B. DeMille or a Robert Rodriguez wanna-be there. Plastic Suppliers, Inc. company manufactures and distributes a variety of plastic films, including coatable, printable, shrink label, packaging, and folding carton. Plastic Suppliers' slitting capabilities can handle widths from one-quarter of an inch to 80 inches. Plastic Suppliers, Inc. company operates two manufacturing plants in Ohio; it also owns regional distribution facilities throughout the US, as well as in Europe. Its specialty films subsidiary, Sidaplax, operates in Belgium.

Daifuku Co., Ltd. company straddles three business segments. Its Logistics Systems comprise auto factory automation, making conveyor systems for producing cars; factory and distribution automation, supplying storage, sorting and picking, and transport; and electronic factory automation, including clean room transport and storage. An Electronics segment makes interface boards for industrial computers. Car wash to bowling equipment is covered, too, by the Other segment. A fourth business, US affiliate Jervis B. Webb, specializes in baggage handling systems. Sales offices dot Japan and 19 countries.

Being square is no insult for box-maker Norampac. A division of Cascades, Norampac manufactures volumes of containerboard, boxboard, and corrugated products. To do so, it operates 26 corrugated products plants, seven containerboard mills, three boxboard mills, and five folding carton plants. A graphic center and an innovation center also offer design services and an array of paper options. Norampac facilities in Canada, the US, and France, churn out products for the food, wine and spirits, and consumer goods industry. Norampac debuted in 1997 when Cascades and Domtar joined their containerboard and corrugated products businesses. Members of the Lemaire family, owners of Cascades, serve in Norampac's management.

Founded in 1923 as an electrical supply house, Turtle & Hughes demonstrates that slow and steady really does win the race to distributing electrical and industrial equipment. Turtle & Hughes company's exhaustive lineup is sold through three subsidiaries: Turtle & Hughes Integrated Supply, Turtle Data (wire, cable, and power protection devices), and TurtleEnergy (energy systems). Its customers include industrial and construction companies, electrical contractors, telecommunications servers, utilities, and various government agencies. Family-owned, Turtle & Hughes is led by its fourth generation, Jayne Millard, and third woman CEO.

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