Carmanah Technologies is a manufacturer of solar-powered lights for use along roads and railways (traffic, bus, and pedestrian beacons), in landscaping (area lighting), and in a variety of marine (lanterns) and aviation (airfield signs and obstruction lights) applications. Its products use energy-efficient light-emitting diodes or LEDs which produce more light and less heat for their size than many other types of illumination. The company functions through two business segments: Strategic (primary business units, technology, and product design) and Tactical (distribution and signage).

MYLLYKOSKI is a family-owned international paper group with manufacturing in Finland, Germany and the United States and sales offices around the world. The Finnish roots of the parent company go back to 1892. MYLLYKOSKI products consist of wood-containing uncoated and coated publication papers, including newsprint. Customers include publishers, printers, and retailers worldwide. MYLLYKOSKI is among the largest publication paper producers in the world.MYLLYKOSKI operates seven paper mills with a total annual capacity of close to 3 million tonnes, including the alliance partner Rhein Papier GmbH. MYLLYKOSKI employs 2,700 people.MYLLYKOSKI is known as a pioneer in using new technologies as well as recycled fibres for paper production. MYLLYKOSKI’s vision is to be the premier publication paper brand recognized for creativity and positive business solutions.

Chinatex is as big and as old in the textile market of China. Founded in 1951, the State-owned company is the #1 cotton trader and acrylic importer in China, as well as one of the largest clothing exporters. It operates through more than 30 subsidiaries and affiliates, and 40 manufacturing plants. Formerly China National Textiles Import and Export Corporation, Chinatex trades textiles, from raw materials, yarns, and fabrics to ready-made garments. It touts its own cotton mills, printing and dyeing plants, wool-top processing factories, knit-wear and woven-garment manufacturing bases, located across China and overseas, as well as a domestic cotton plantation.

Pridgeon & Clay (P&C) rivals the metal forming industry. An independent manufacturer and supplier of stamped and fine blanked components, the company designs and produces an array of parts for auto assembly plants across the US. Its made-in-the-US (China and Hungary, too) lineup includes steering column lock nuts, brackets for headlights to engines, control arms, flanges, exhaust parts, and muffler shields. Stamping equipment runs from fine blanking presses to high tonnage and progressive presses. P&C touts hand assembly, spot welding, and tapping services, along with a global sales force. Founded in 1948, the company is led by the son of its co-founder, Donald Clay.

Kuraki, founded in 1938, has sales and service offices in China, Germany, Japan, Singapore, and the US. Kuraki company makes sales directly and through a network of independent distributors. Textile manufacturer Kurabo Industries owns 49% of Kuraki. Kuraki manufactures machine tools used primarily for metal boring applications. Its products include horizontal boring mills, horizontal milling machines, axis profilers, and other metalworking equipment.

Bjerke Forgings makes close-die forgings, open-die forgings, and rolled ring forgings for customers in a variety of industries, including manufacturers of aerospace components, heavy machinery, and power generation equipment. The company forges its products from several types of steel, including alloy, carbon, stainless, tool, and other specialty steels, as well as from aluminum, copper, copper alloys, and titanium. Bjerke Forgings also provides machining, heat treating, and destructive and non-destructive testing services. Bjerke Forgings was founded in 1988 and is owned by president Dale Bjerke.

The Ritedose Corporation is a leader in blow-fill-seal (BFS) contract manufacturing of small fill volume pharmaceutical unit dose sterile and non-sterile liquids. Our state of the art, US-FDA approved manufacturing facility is located in Columbia, South Carolina. Our high speed BFS lines and automated packaging lines offer a unique capability in contract manufacturing of pharmaceuticals. We specialize in manufacturing inhalation products, eye drops, ear drops, and unit dose oral liquids.

United States Steel is the nation's #2 integrated steelmaker (behind ArcelorMittal). United States Steel operates mills throughout the Midwest in the US; in Ontario, Canada; and in Serbia and Slovakia. U.S. Steel makes sheet and semifinished steel, tubular and plate steel, and tin products; its annual production capacity is more than 30 million tons of raw steel (though its actual production rate is less than that). The company's customers are primarily in the automotive, construction, chemical, and steel service center industries. In addition, U.S. Steel offers services such as mineral resource management and engineering and consulting.

N-Viro International Corporation develops and licenses its technology to municipalities and private companies. Their patented processes use lime and/or mineral-rich, combustion byproducts to treat, pasteurize, immobilize and convert wastewater sludge and other bio-organic wastes into biomineral agricultural and soil-enrichment products with real market value. The company has generated sales in excess of $40 million dollars, since its initial public offering in October of 1993, which was underwritten by Robertson Stephens, Raymond James, Oppenheimer & Co., and Paine Webber.

Waukesha Bearings is a leading designer and manufacturer of engineered hydrodynamic bearings and magnetic bearing systems for high-performing turbomachinery in oil & gas, power generation, marine and industrial markets. Typical applications include gas, steam and hydro turbines, centrifugal gas compressors, generators, gearboxes, pumps and motors.Waukesha Bearings’ range of oil and process lubricated bearings are optimized for top performance in challenging environments and engineered for low power consumption, reduced temperatures, and increased reliability and efficiency. Waukesha’s field-proven magnetic bearing systems offer superior performance and availability along with environmental benefits.

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