Castings PLC is a group of three stand-alone manufacturing sites. Castings Ductile Cast Products and Wm Lee operate iron foundries and offer graphite and iron castings, machining, designing, and prototyping services to industrial manufacturers in the automotive, railway, and other industries. Castings counts Toyota among its customers. CNC Speedwell provides machining, surface treatment, assembly, and finishing. The group gets most of its sales from European customers, with the UK accounting for more than a third of the sales. Aberforth Partners controls almost 17% of the company's shares, while Hunter Hall Investment Management owns nearly 11% of Castings.

Genesis Worldwide II has had metal manufacturing on its mind. Operating through its Herr-Voss Stamco business segment, Genesis Worldwide II company makes metal coil processing equipment used by steel and aluminum mills and mini-mills, ferrous and nonferrous supply centers, and end users of coiled metals. Products include tension leveling, cut-to-length, slitting, coating, and multi-blanking machines and packaging systems. Genesis Worldwide II company also provides such services as mill roll reconditioning, texturing, and grinding along with rebuilding, repair, and spare parts sales. Genesis II is held by HVS Acquisition, Inc., an affiliate of private equity firm Grey Mountain Partners.

Berry Plastics makes bunches and bunches of plastic products. Berry Plastics company is a leading maker of injection-molded plastic products. Its lineup includes drink cups, bottles, closures, tubes and prescription containers, stretch films, plastic sheeting, tapes, and housewares. Customers include the health care, personal care, food and beverage, agricultural, industrial, construction, aerospace, and automotive industries. Berry Plastics company operates more than 60 manufacturing facilities and has extensive distribution capabilities. Apollo Management and Graham Partners acquired Berry Plastics in 2006; Apollo owns approximately 75% of Berry Plastics company.

General Cable Corporation is engaged in developing, designing, manufacturing, marketing, distributing and installing copper, aluminum and fiber optic wire and cable products. The Company operates in three segments based on geographic regions: North America, Europe and North Africa, and Rest of World (ROW), which consists of operations in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific. It sells a variety of copper, aluminum and fiber optic wire and cable products. As of December 31, 2009, the Company manufactures its product lines in 44 facilities including two facilities owned by companies, in which the Company has an equity investment and sells its products worldwide through its global operations. The products of the Company include Electric Utility products, Electrical Infrastructure products, Construction products, Communication products, and Rod Mill products. In August 2009, the Company acquired Gepco International, Inc. and Isotec, Inc. (collectively, Gepco).

GILDEMEISTER AG company's Deckel Maho subsidiary manufactures milling machines and machining centers. Another subsidiary, Lasertec, manufactures cutting tools that utilize laser technology. GILDEMEISTER's other products include universal lathes and turning centers. The company also provides technical services that include its spare parts business, training products, used-machine trading, and product service for the life of the machine through its DMG subsidiaries. Although GILDEMEISTER sells its products from about 30 locations worldwide, Germany generates nearly half of its sales.

Scot Forge forges ahead in the manufacturing of open-die and rolled-ring forgings used for couplings, drive shafts, flanges, heat exchanger bodies, and ship shafts. The employee-owned company's customers are in the construction, defense, energy, general industrial machinery, power generation, and shipbuilding industries. A signature product is the Tartan Bar -- not a Scottish candy, but solid-center, rolled-surface round bars of metal. Scot Forge has a specialty alloy services team to help customers select specialty materials for open-die forgings and rolled rings. The manufacturer, which ships more than 250 million pounds of forgings a year, was founded in 1893.

Lloyds British Testing primarily designs, tests, inspects, manufactures, and repairs cranes and other industrial cargo-loading machinery. The company has about a dozen branches located throughout the UK. Lloyds British Testing forms the core of Lloyds British Group, an entity that provides rental, repair, and engineering services to customers in the manufacturing and transportation industries among others. It also provides some manufacturing services of lift related equipment such as lifting beams and frames. Through its parent company, Lloyds British Testing also provides training and support services to customers outside the UK.

Established in 1956, Alcan Airex is the Switzerland-based specialty foam manufacturer for parent Alcan Composites, itself a subsidiary of Switzerland-based Schweiter Technologies. The closed-cell specialty foam producer's operations are organized into three business segments: display/creative sheet materials, sandwich core materials, and flexible foams for exercise and buoyancy products. Brand names include its FOREX display materials, FOAM-X foam boards, KAPEX copolymer foams, BALTEK end-grain balsa wood, and AIREX exercise products. Alcan Airex owns and operates two facilities in Switzerland. Europe accounts for the vast majority (around 70%) of the company's sales volume.

Total Plastics, Inc. was founded in 1978 by John Kozacki and Jerome Kollig as a small plastics warehouse in Kalamazoo, Michigan. In 1984, the national sales office in Grand Rapids, Michigan opened to accommodate the growing business and regional plastics customer base. Further expansion occurred in 1987 with the opening of the Fort Wayne branch. In 1996, Total Plastics was acquired by A.M. Castle & Co. leading to additional branches in Baltimore, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Cleveland. TPI has since grown to include 16 branches total. The newest opened in July, 2007 in Rhode Island.

HD Supply Waterworks is a US distributor of water, sewer, storm drain, and fire protection products. The company supplies a lineup of pipes, fittings, meters, valves, and hydrants used in the building, repair, and water maintenance and wastewater programs. It operates more than 265 branches across the US and has a fleet of more than 1,000 delivery trucks. It buys from about 3,500 suppliers and sells to more than 26,000 customers. Municipal clients and allied contractors account for a large share of the company's sales. The company is a subsidiary of HD Supply, which is owned by private equity firms: Bain Capital, The Carlyle Group, and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.

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