The Howard Smith Paper Group (HSPG) take it very seriously. A leading UK paper merchant, HSPG manufactures business, carbonless, coated, digital, synthetic, and uncoated paper, as well as labels, envelopes, and packaging products. Its brands are numerous and include Arriba!, Barbican, Consort, Greencoat, Regency, and think4 . HSPG operates offices across the UK to serve the printing and publishing markets, designers, the retail sector, and end-user organizations. HSPG is part of PaperlinX, Australia's largest paper manufacturer.

Camozzi S.p.A., a member of the Camozzi Group, has got a pneumatic lease on life. Camozzi S.p.A. focuses on the group's core business, pneumatics; it manufactures components used for industrial automation. Other subsidiary companies within the group make machine tools (Innse-Berardi, Retco, Ingersoll Machine Tools, and others), textile machines (Marzoli, Vouk), and nuclear energy products (Ansaldo-Camozzi). Group products are sold in more than 70 countries around the world. Founded in 1964 by the Camozzi family, the Camozzi Group is owned and operated by chairman Attilio Camozzi.

Gehl Company manufactures light-construction equipment bearing the Gehl and Mustang brand names primarily used by building contractors. Products include mini-excavators, mini-loaders, and skid steer loaders for material handling; telescopic loaders; and asphalt pavers for building sidewalks, parking lots, trails, and driveways. It has about 750 independent dealers around the globe, but most are located in North America. Gehl also offers financing to its dealers and their customers. In 2006 the company exited the agricultural machinery business. France-based MANITOU BF, previously one of Gehl's largest shareholders, acquired the company in 2008.

Cross selling is no problem for Cross Company, an industrial distributor of products and solutions for fluid-power, motion-control, factory-automation, fluid-handling, and measurement applications. Employee-owned since 1979, the Southeastern US-based automation technology company operates four divisions: Cross Automation, Cross Fluid Power, Cross Hose & Fittings, and Cross Instrumentation. It has operations in seven US states. Division Cross Automation provides industrial plant and machine automation products including controls, sensors, and drives. Cross Fluid Power is a distributor of hydraulic and pneumatic components and engineered systems.

Punch Graphix company designs and manufactures digital and prepress printing equipment, including color printing systems, software, and consumables, for the commercial printing and newspaper industries. Products are destributed by the company under the Xeikon (digital printing) and basysPrint (high-end offset prepress imaging systems) brand names. Punch Graphix, which changed its name from Punch Technix in 2007, is a subsidiary of Belgian industrial manufacturer Punch International.

SGSB Group Company's businesses include the production of office equipment, photographic film products, and industrial sewing machines, as well as foreign trade and logistics. Founded as two separate companies in unrelated industries (Shanghai Industrial Sewing Machine Company and Shanghai Movie and Photo Industry Company), the company has undergone several iterations before combining its operations and settling on its current name, just prior to its acquisition of D�rkopp Adler in 2005. SGSB is publicly traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Asahi/America, Inc. ("Asahi"), is a diversified ISO9001 certified manufacturer and distributor of corrosion-resistant fluid flow products. These include a wide variety of thermoplastic valves, actuators, flow meters, tubing systems, and single and double containment piping systems. These products are used for the control, transmission, and containment of corrosive fluids and high-purity liquids, certain flammable gases, and compressed air.Asahi helped pioneer the market for thermoplastic valves in the United States and Latin America, during a time when there was no viable alternative to metal for piping systems. Asahi began by distributing valves and piping products from a Japanese company known as Asahi Organic Chemical Company ("AOC"). Through increased distributor and end user education and experience, thermoplastics have grown steadily in acceptance. While Asahi still imports a number of products from AOC, the actuators, flow meters, and certain valves are currently manufactured at the 100,000 square foot headquarters in Malden, Massachusetts.Nationally recognized as a leader in the environmental service industry, Asahi with its Austrian business partner, Agru, have developed and patented pivotal products and systems, which directly address the new requirements mandated by the EPA. Also, within its Clean Room, Asahi utilizes Agru's high purity PVDF and unpigmented, natural polypropylene components to fabricate and test assemblies for R&D and ultra high purity applications. To meet the strictest of manufacturing standards, Asahi maintains its own DI water line and monitors air quality on a continuous basis.Asahi has one of the industry's largest distributor networks with nearly 500 locations nationally and throughout Latin America. Customers include the world's leading manufacturers in the chemical and petrochemical, mining, pulp and paper, plating, pharmaceutical, food, and semiconductor industries. Additionally, Asahi has developed a strong presence in municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment, aquariums, landfill recovery, and theme park and cruise ship construction.

Established in 1935, Murata Machinery makes textile machinery (spinning frames, automatic winders, staple fiber band lines, and texturing machines), machine tools (turning machines, spindle and self-loading chuckers), sheet metal machinery (punch presses and CAD/CAM software), and manufacturing logistics and automation systems (automated warehouse systems, logistics centers, sorting systems, and conveyer systems). Murata Machinery also offers fax machines and multifunction office equipment that it markets under the Muratec name.

Primex Plastics Corporation's talents lie between the sheets -- the custom-extruded plastic sheets that Primex Plastics Corporation company manufactures. Primex's products are based on a family of synthetic resins and sheet molding compounds, including polystyrene (HIPS), polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polyester (PETG), and ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene). The sheets are used in a myriad of products, from food and medical trays to cosmetics packaging, truck caps and bedliners, outdoor signs, paddle boats, and portable toilets. Primex operates in conjunction with subsidiaries O'Neil Color & Compounding, Pace Industries, Woodruff, and its UK arm Primex Plastics Limited. Privately held ICC Industries owns the Primex.

American & Efird (A&E) is a global manufacturer and distributor of industrial sewing and embroidery threads, and engineered yarns. Its products are used by both consumers and manufacturers of apparel, automotive materials, home furnishings, and medical supplies. In addition to threads and yarns, the company distributes cords, notions, twines, zippers, and related supplies made by other companies, such as YKK. A&E has 29 manufacturing plants and 68 service hubs, dotting more than 40 countries around the world. It is a subsidiary of Ruddick Corp., which also operates a chain of Harris Teeter grocery stores in the Southeast US.

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