United Glass Corporation is one of the leading, independent fabricators and processors of value-added glass products targeting commercial construction end-markets in the Eastern United States. The UGC "family of companies" consists of five operating facilities. These facilities are located in Atlanta, GA; Plymouth, MI; Columbus, OH; two facilities outside Pittsburgh, PA and corporate headquarters in Louisville, KY. The company provides value-added fabrication services to transform raw, flat glass into a variety of sophisticated, energy-saving and technical products. The vast majority of the company's service offerings result in highly customized, "made-to-order" products to meet customer specifications.

CIRCOR International, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of valves and other engineered products and sub-systems. The company operates in three segments: Energy, Aerospace, and Flow Technologies. The Energy Segment offers flanged-end and threaded-end floating and trunnion ball valves, needle valves, check valves, butterfly valves, forged steel ball valves, gate valves, control valves, relief valves, pressure regulators, pipeline measurement, and pipeline closures for use in oil, gas and chemical processing, and industrial applications. This segment provides its products under the brand names of KF, Contromatics, Pibiviesse, Mallard Control, Hydroseal, Sagebrush, and Pipeline Engineering. The Aerospace segment offers precision valves, control valves, relief valves, solenoid valves, couplers, regulators, switches, DC electric motors, and aerospace landing gears for military and commercial aerospace applications. This segment provides its products under the brand names of Aerodyne Controls, Circle Seal Controls, Loud Engineering, Industria, Atkomatic Valve, Survival Engineering, Motor Technology, Bodet Aero, and Atlas Productions. The Flow Technologies segment offers precision valves, compression tube fittings, control valves, relief valves, butterfly valves, couplers, regulators, strainers, and sampling systems for instrumentation, cryogenic, and steam applications.

Founded in 1923 when Christian Trumpf and his partners acquired a machine shop, TRUMPF burgeoned into a leading maker of production machinery. TRUMPF company operates through three divisions: Machine Tools/Power Tools (flexible sheet metal processing, bevellers, cutters, deburrers, fasteners, nibblers, seam lockers, shears), Laser Technology/Electronics (industrial lasers for cutting, welding, marking, and forming applications; laser generators), and Medical Technology (operating tables, surgical lights, ceiling mounts). It gets about 70% of its sales outside Germany. TRUMPF is managed and controlled by the Leibinger family.

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.

Yaskawa America, Inc. - Motoman Robotics Division company makes industrial robots that weld, assemble, cut, and handle goods for manufacturers. It also offers related process controls, positioning systems, welding equipment, and operating software. Motoman and sibling Drives & Motion Division (a maker of control products, AC servo motors and drives, and inverters, formerly Yaskawa Electric America), combined to form Yaskawa America, a unit of Yaskawa Electric Corp. (YEC) of Japan, one of the world's top manufacturers of industrial robots.

Hirsch International Corp. company supplies single- and multi-head embroidery machines, embroidery supplies, machine parts, and software, as well as digital printers and textile lasers. Hirsch is the exclusive US distributor of Tajima Industries equipment (multiple-head embroidery machines), MHM screen printing equipment, SEIT textile bridge lasers, and other industry tech brands. Tajima-built equipment accounts for about 50% of sales. Core customers are manufacturers that produce thread, applique, and rhinestone-decorative apparel and accessories, uniforms, or sportswear, and apparel screenprinters and retailers.

Founded in 1875 to mine and smelt copper, Furukawa is a major manufacturer of construction and industrial machinery (cranes, drills, rock crushers) and a leading miner and smelter (copper, gold, silver). Furukawa also makes electronic materials, including high-purity gallium arsenate used in cell phones (replacing silicon as the material of choice by manufacturers), and chemicals that include cuprous oxide (used in paint for ships) and sulfuric acid (primarily sold to titanium dioxide manufacturers). Other operations include fuels (gasoline, diesel, kerosene), real estate, and trucking services. Most of Furukawa's sales come from Japan.

Siam Steel Syndicate produces steel products for use in a variety of industries. Its menu of offerings includes round and deformed bars, steel wire rods, rectangular and square tubes, and round pipes. An affiliate of Italian-Thai Development, Siam Steel Syndicate was established in 1984 and has since become a leading producer of steel products in Thailand. In recent years the company has allied with other domestic steel products heavyweights -- including Millennium Steel, Bangkok Iron Steel Works, and Nova Steel in an effort to supply additional steel products to offset skyrocketing prices.

PMS Diecasting is a fabricator of diecast metal components. PMS Diecasting's machining centers are engaged in the broaching, drilling, reaming, and tapping of parts made primarily from zinc. PMS Diecasting also makes zinc diecast toolings, chrome handle ends, center cleats, support pins and mounting brackets. The company's other services include bead blasting and vibratory finishing and drying. PMS Diecasting serves customers in the automotive, domestic appliance, general hardware, heating and ventilation, and leisure products industries among others.

Crenlo LLC manufactures operator cabs and rollover structures for construction, agricultural, and commercial equipment. Its big vehicle OEMs are John Deere, Caterpillar, and Case New Holland. Cabs are custom designed, steel frame enclosures that attach to an OEM's machines. Crenlo's lineup includes modular enclosures built under its proprietary EMCOR name. Emcor electronic equipment enclosures, racks, and consoles house equipment for commercial, computer, broadcast, security, and defense markets. Originally private, Crenlo was sold to a subsidiary of Dover Corp. in 1999.

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