Highway engineer J. J. (Joe) Swanson and Wyoming contractor W. A. Norris founded Nebraska Machinery Company in 1938. Nebraska Machinery Company sells and leases new and used Caterpillar equipment through locations in Nebraska and Iowa. Besides the Caterpillar brand, Nebraska Machinery company sells other makes of equipment including Blue Giant, Hawker, Princeton, and Taylor-Dunn. NMC serves customers in the agricultural, construction, industrial, and material handling industries. It operates nine rental stores in Nebraska and Iowa. Nebraska Machinery opened a repair facility in Lincoln, Nebraska, to service highway truck engines.

LISI (meaning "Link Solutions for Industry"), formerly known as GFI Industries, makes fasteners used in a wide range of industries. Its automotive, aerospace, medical, and cosmetics segments make products that include fastening systems for airframes and aircraft engines, solid rivets, wheel screws and nuts, engine fasteners, and ball joints and clamp washers, as well as plastic packaging and aluminum enclosures for the cosmetics industry, and implants for the medical industry. Among its clients are Boeing, Renault, and Proctor & Gamble. LISI's product reach is global, although Europe accounts for more than 70% of its sales.

Metcam has heavy metal skills. The precision fabricator of sheet metal parts offers assembly, metal finishing, plating, and stamping, too. Its fabrication services include stamping, deburring, hardware insertion, and machining. Laser cutting is set for high tolerance piercing of most materials and thicknesses. For jobs "on the fly," parts used in cutting are programmed to also run on Metcam's turret punching machines. Its metal finishing provides brush, conversion coating, paint, and silkscreen. Electromechanical and mechanical assembly services are also offered at its Georgia facility. The company's electronics and telecommunications customers include AT&T, Lucent, and Chicago's McCormick Place.

Fenner PLC company is among the world's top manufacturers of heavyweight belting. Fenner straddles two divisions. Conveyor Belting (CB) manufactures rubber, PVC, and steel cord conveyor belts for mining, power generation, and industrial use. Advanced Engineered Products (AEP) supplies a range of polymer items, including office automation parts, mechanical transmission drives, diesel engine hoses, hydraulic and pneumatic seals, and biomedical fixtures and industrial fabrics. The line is integrated into processing systems, heavy equipment, and electrical/mechanical tools. Over 50% of Fenner's sales are made outside the US.

Grede is a full-service supplier of innovative metal components to the transportation and industrial markets. Headquartered in Novi, Michigan with Sales and Technical Support throughout the United States and Europe, Grede delivers quality products to a global customer base.Grede's capabilities span a diverse range of materials and processes. Our comprehensive offerings and expertise bring to the table a standard of manufacturing that is truly distinctive in the industry.

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.

Nook has the corner on manufacturing engineered motion-system parts. It covers robotic grippers to guided linear and rotational components that are electrically and pneumatically actuated. Nook takes on extreme-duty environments such as auto, chemical, communications, electronics, food and beverage, medical/diagnostics, and packaging and paper. Its line of explosion-proof modular guided actuators is said to simplify and improve the machine design process as well as prevent fires from sparking in caustic areas. For workplaces subject to dripping, spraying, or submersion in water, as in food processing, Nook protects power and data cabling with its stainless steel cable tray.

Porter-Cable tools are picked up by handymen and women, professional woodworkers and construction workers, and electricians and plumbers. The company manufactures electric tools (tabletop saws, bench top planers, and radial drill presses), cordless tools (drills and drivers, and combo kits), air tools (hammers, wrenches, nailers, and spray guns), and related accessories. In 2000 Porter-Cable merged with sister company Delta Machinery. Black & Decker, which later merged with The Stanley Works to become Stanley Black & Decker, scored Porter-Cable from Pentair in 2005.

USHIO America discharges its duties by designing, manufacturing, and distributing discharge and halogen lighting. A subsidiary of USHIO, the company has an arsenal of over 4,000 general and specialty lighting products. Its main customers are in the biotechnology, electronics, image information processing, medical, and semiconductor industries. Ushio America's sister affiliate production bases include Ushio America-Oregon, USHIO Philippines, BLV Licht-und Vakuumetechnik GmbH, Taiwan USHIO Lighting, and USHIO Hong Kong. The company puts a high premium on the research and development of advanced photon and electron beam technology and their adaptation for use in industrial lighting and processing equipment.

Bonney Forge makes a bonny line of products, including high quality forged and cast steel valves, fittings, and branch connections. In the US the company provides ferrous and non-ferrous branch connections, engineered specialty forged components, flanges, fittings, and piping systems and pressure vessels through its WFI International and RP&C subsidiaries. Bonney Forge also supplies forging and machining in Europe though its Italian subsidiary, Alco di Castronno. Bonney Forge company has expanded its reach through a joint venture based in Shanghai, China, to produce and sell cast steel valves in international markets.

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