Founded in 1946, the family-owned WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG makes electronic and mechanical pressure measuring devices used in chemical, energy, food, gas distribution, and other industrial manufacturing applications. Other products include analog and digital thermometers, transmitters, thermowells, diaphragm seals, and accessories. WIKA company also makes testing and calibration instruments and software; many mechanical products made by the company are computer-compatible, allowing for automated data collection. WIKA has worldwide manufacturing and distribution operations in about 75 countries.

Consider flexible packaging and specialty papers maker Packaging Dynamics. Its BagcraftPapercon unit converts paper, film, and foil into food packaging such as bags and wraps, butcher and freezer paper, pan liners, and tissue. International Converter produces adhesive and film extrusion lamination materials for making decorative cartons, bags, cans, and goods for consumer, medical, and industrial purposes. Thilmany Papers makes specialty lightweight papers for a diversity of packaging, pressure sensitive, and industrial uses from sandwich wraps and microwave popcorn bags to baggage tags and tapes. Packaging Dynamics is a portfolio company of Kohlberg & Company.

Franklin Electric Co., Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and distribution of groundwater and fuel pumping systems. It operates in two segments, Water Systems and Fueling Systems. The Water Systems segment designs, manufactures, and sells motors, pumps, electronic controls, and related parts and equipment primarily for use in submersible water and other fluid system applications. Its motors and pumps are used principally in submersible applications for pumping fresh water, wastewater, and other liquids in various residential, agricultural, and industrial applications, as well as off-shore drilling and mining applications. This segment offers electronic drives and controls for the motors, which control functionality and provide protection from various hazards, such as electric surges, over-heating, or dry wells and tanks. The Fueling Systems segment designs, manufactures, and sells pumps, electronic controls, and related parts and equipment primarily for use in submersible fueling system applications. It also integrates and sells motors and electronic controls produced by the Water Systems segment.

Disc Graphics, Inc. company makes and prints paperboard-based packaging for home entertainment, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and related consumer goods markets. Its capabilities tap commercial printing to folding cartons, mini-flute corrugate, and foil stamping. Although Disc Graphics' name goes back to the 1970s in producing labels for vinyl records, Disc Graphics company today specializes in packaging for food and beverage to sporting goods, publishing for audio books, and vitamins. It touts sustainable practices including an eco-design packaging program and non-cellulose based (tree-free) paper. Chairman and CEO Donald Sinkin and private equity firm Main Street Resources hold majority stakes.

Air Centers of Florida can give you a blow-by-blow account of the state of compressor sales in the southeast US. Air Centers of Florida company sells and rents new and used Ingersoll-Rand air compressors and air system accessories. Other products include electric generators, process chillers, and vacuum pumps. Air Centers of Florida also performs system audits for plants and factories of all sizes and provides preventative maintenance, rebuild, and troubleshooting services. Air Centers of Florida company operates from offices in Jacksonville, Orlando, and Tampa and remote service locations in Gainesville, Port Saint Lucie, and Sarasota.

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.

C. H. Bailey knows how to stay afloat even when it doesn't have any boats. Though C. H. Bailey company was previously engaged in shipbuilding and repairs, it sold those operations in 2005, and turned its focus on two very different industries: manufacturing & automation and leisure. C.H. Bailey Industrial Engineering division is comprised of Bailey Industrial Engineering, which provides electrical contracting and heavy-engineering services. Its Leisure division, which functions through its overseas subsidiary SGBH, operates hotels (Oyster Bay and Palazzo Villa Rosa) and safari camps (Beho Beho and Mikumi Wildlife Camp) in Malta and Tanzania.

Indel Company is the parent of an international group of more than 60 engineering and technology companies producing a variety of products, primarily for the metals industry. It operates through two groups. Its Inductotherm Group includes about 40 companies that make melting and thermal processing systems. Its Diversified Technology Group includes about 25 firms that manufacture metal products and components, welding equipment, electrical components and systems engineering electronics, engineering products, plastic products, and network communications products. Services range from metal fabrication to silkscreen printing. Indel has operations in the Americas, Australia, and Asia.

Brammer plc company has dumped its Livingston division, which rented, sold, and serviced electronic testing and measurement products and computing equipment in to customers in Europe and China. Brammer is now focusing on the development of its industrial services business, which supplies technical equipment and services to the repair, maintenance, and manufacturing markets throughout Europe. Brammer company has used acquisitions to expand its operations, including the purchases of Polish industrial services specialist Fin S.A. and CBS Rotary Power Motion, a supplier of industrial components, bearings, and power transmission products.

Mobile Mini company manufactures, leases, and sells portable storage containers and mobile buildings. Mobile Mini's lineup features steel and wood containers, and residential and office units in various sizes, including a selection of 100 different shelving, wiring, and locking options. Customers are consumer service and retail businesses, construction companies, and, to a lesser degree, distributors, film producers, military and municipal agencies, schools, and hospitals. Mobile Mini also refurbishes oceangoing containers for storage. The company's leasing arm, comprising a fleet of 257,000-plus portable containers and offices, represents about 90% of sales.

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