The MJ Allen Group company's iron foundry, non-ferrous foundry, and machining subsidiaries make precision gauges, tools, dies, punches, architectural steel, and ornamental ironwork under brands including Rydal, Mather & Smith, Foremost, Hunton, and Verdict distributed in Europe and the US. Its automotive group makes National brand brake and clutch parts sold in Eastern Europe as well as Countytrac transmissions sold in the UK. Managing Director Tim Allen controls a majority share of The MJ Allen Group.

Valence Technology company's rechargeable lithium polymer batteries are designed for use in industrial, military, and motive and stationary electrical power applications. Valence touts its Saphion (patented technology) lithium iron magnesium phosphate (LiFeMgPO4) energy storage systems as having a longer life and being safer and more stable under extreme conditions than lithium-ion batteries that use oxide-based cathode materials. Valence derives over 60% of its sales from Segway (46%) and The Tanfield Group (16%). Customers in the US account for about 60% of sales.

MetalTek International makes a variety of precision cast parts used in aerospace, mining, defense, petrochemical, and nuclear applications. It specializes in non-ferrous, stainless steel, heat and corrosion resistant alloys; its alloy casting methods include centrifugal, continuous, investment, and sand casting. Its five international facilities serve customers in more than 25 countries.

Advanced Battery Technologies hopes to ride the rising wave of electric and hybrid-electric vehicle sales all the way to the bank. Through operating subsidiary ZQ Power-Tech, the company makes rechargeable polymer lithium-ion batteries used in cars, buses, cell phones, digital cameras, and other gear. Its batteries can be as thin as one-tenth of an inch or as large as 500 pounds (for commuter buses). ZQ Power-Tech also makes lamps used on miners' helmets, but most of its products are sold to OEMs for use in their finished goods. Customers for vehicle battery components include Aiyingsi, ZAP, Beijing Guoqiang Global Technology Development, and its own electric vehicle manufacturing company Wuxi ZQ.

Arroyo Process Equipment company is a distributor of mixers and pumps (including diaphragm metering pumps, high-viscosity blenders, and slurry pumps) for industrial applications. Arroyo Process Equipment carries products made by such manufacturers as Crane Co., IDEX, and Hayward Industries. The company also sells belts, drives, fabricated couplings, and custom starter panels and control systems. In addition, it offers maintenance, repair, shipping, and training services. The US Department of Defense is one of Arroyo's many customers. Arroyo has three sales centers in Florida and additional operations in the Dominican Republic.

Founded in 1832, Simonds International is North America's oldest manufacturer of industrial cutting tools. Simonds International Corporation company maintains more than a million square feet of manufacturing space for producing a slew of tools for cutting through metal, wood, paper, and plastics. Simonds' metal-cutting products include carbon, bimetal, and carbide-tipped bandsaw blades; its wood-cutting products include bits, shanks, circular saws, machine knives, wide bandsaws, and circle saws; other offerings include files (a hand-cutting tool for producing a smooth finish on materials), steel rules, and farrier rasps.

Eklind Tool can't afford to be too superstitious. For those who have a hexagonal nut to tighten or loosen, the company has the hexagonal tool to meet their needs. Eklind Tool claims to have set the industry standard for a select range of industrial grade hand tools, including hex keys and wrenches, ball-hex keys, and screwdriver bits. Its brand names include Hex-L, Power-T, Ergo-Fold, Ball-Hex-Drivers, and others. The company's products range from penknife-sized fold-up key sets to four-drawer, 22-compartment tool organizers (plastic boxes) for use in workshops and garages.

Ronile company manufactures custom-dyed accent yarns, including twisted, space-dyed, air-ply, and heatset yarns. Ronile's slew of finished yarn goods include nylon, polyester, acrylic, and other wool fibers, which are marketed to carpet, rug, home furnishings, craft, and automotive markets. Ronile also operates through subsidiary Bacova Guild, Ltd., a manufacturer and supplier of printed accent rugs, room-size rugs, and bath ensembles to US retail chains, and Gulistan, a division supplying broadloom carpet. Employee-owned, the company is led by its founder's son, Phillip Essig.

Nippon Electric Glass (NEG) has seen the light in the glass business. While Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd. company restructured its core business operations to concentrate on flat panel display (FPD) glass, it also produces glass used in the manufacture of LCD (liquid crystal display) and CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors. The company makes next-generation glass products for optical and electronic devices, glass fibers for engineering plastics, specialized building materials (glass blocks, heat-resistant glass, solar collectors, and glass tubing), and organic light emitting displays (OLED) and LED products for use in display, building, and medical applications. Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd. company makes over 40% of its sales to customers outside of Japan.

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.

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