Arnold Machinery Company distributes construction and mining, concrete aggregate, industrial, and material handling equipment, as well as farm machinery (through its General Implement Distributors division) throughout the western US. Arnold Machinery Company also offers used equipment and provides repair and maintenance, rebuild, exchange, and rental services. OEM equipment suppliers include Volvo and Hitachi (construction and mining equipment); Hyster and Unarco (forklifts, warehouse equipment, and other material handling equipment); and Buhler and McFarlane (farm equipment). Chairman Alvin Richer has the controlling interest in Arnold Machinery Company.

Founded in 1998, SKYDEX Technologies company develops high-performance cushioning and protective materials designed to limit or absorb the negative effects of impact -- including blast, shock, and vibration limiting -- on the human body. SKYDEX's cushioning materials use polymers and proprietary geometric technologies (imagine two opposing halves of a ball squeezed together) to produce padding that works better than foams, gels, and other cushioning materials. Its materials are used in athletic, commercial, and military applications including footwear, helmets, bike and snowmobile seating, playground surfacing, protective gear, and automotive.

Interstate Resources is not a fancy name for the latest US Highway Bill, but a paperboard and packaging products manufacturer. The company's offerings include linerboard, kraft paper (for bags), and corrugated medium board and packaging for consumer products and displays. It also produces timber and wood chips and burns the waste to fuel its plants; its sells the excess to the local power grid. Interstate Resources has about a dozen plants along the east coast. The company's products are sold in the northeastern, midwestern, and southeastern US and in Asia, the Middle East, South America, and Europe. Lebanese industrial manufacturer Indevco owns Interstate Resources.

Manuli Rubber Industries S.p.A. company is a leading manufacturer of rubber components and systems for transmitting fluids. Manuli's hydraulics division supplies high-pressure hoses, couplings, adaptors, and other fittings for construction, mining, off-highway vehicles, and machine tool applications. Its Fluiconnecto unit distributes hydraulic components to construction, mining, agriculture, marine, oil and gas, and other industrial customers. The company's small oil and marine group makes floating and subsea large-bore reinforced rubber hoses and elastomeric pipelines. Manuli has operations in more than 20 countries worldwide.

Stupp Bros has set a high standard as a structural steel fabricator, founded in 1856. Stupp Bros., a holding company, owns Stupp Bridge (fabricator of plate girder bridges), Hammerts Iron Works (maker of structural steel used in commercial, institutional, medical, and specialized buildings), Stupp Corporation (produces electric resistance welded pipe for oil and gas transmission), and Bayou Coating (coating for steel line pipe). The company also owns a majority of community bank Midwest BankCentre. The Stupp family controls Stupp Bros.

Manitex International, Inc. is a leading North American manufacturer of engineered lifting equipment that operates in the $110 billion U.S. industrial machinery industry. The Company’s Manitex division is a major player in the $400 million North American Boom Truck Industry. The Manitex family includes: Manitex Boom Trucks, SkyCrane Aerial Platforms / Sign Cranes, and USTC Trolley Boom Products. The Manitex Liftking division manufactures a complete line of rough terrain forklifts and special mission oriented vehicles, as well as other specialized carriers, heavy material handling transporters and steel mill equipment which are utilized in the commercial and military markets.In addition to providing industry leading engineered lifting equipment, Manitex International divisions also offer replacement parts to help service your lifting equipment investment, together with a wide array of service support, and training programs. Manitex Inc have taken parts ordering and tracking to the next level of service with their "UPTIME" program which provides replacement parts, 24hrs a day, 7 days a week, via an online ordering and tracking system. This functionality will soon be extended to all Manitex International, Inc. companies.In July 2010, the company's subsidiary CVS Ferrari srl entered into an exclusive agreement to operate the business of CVS SPA in liquidation. CVS Ferrari srl operates from facilities near Milan, Italy and adds a complete range of container handling equipment to our portfolio, supplying container handling equipment to ports and inter-modal customers on a worldwide basis.

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.

Hitchiner Manufacturing Company de Mexico produces rocker arms for the automotive industry; and Ferrous Mexico delivers rocker arm assemblies. The company is regularly a tier-two seller to big names BorgWarner, Goodrich, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, and General Electric, meaning its parts go to another company that contracts directly with the manufacturer.

Risdon International designs and manufactures metal and plastic packaging for the makeup and fragrance industries. It makes such products as lipstick and mascara containers, perfume bottle lids and caps, and metallic lacquer finishes. The company has three US manufacturing plants, as well as facilities in Canada, China, and Mexico, and a sales office in Paris. Risdon's list of customers includes Avon, L'Oreal, Estae Lauder, Procter & Gamble, and Revlon. Private equity firm Tea House Partners (THP) acquired Risdon from Crown Holdings in 2006.

Lock Joint Tube manufactures mechanical and structural grade steel tubing for OEM and metal fabricators. The company's various sized and shaped tubing offers a breadth of applications, from bedside tables and wheelchairs to IV stands and hand railings used in medical facilities. Customers hail from the automotive, healthcare, office furniture, and exercise and display fixtures market. Lock Joint Tube is privately held by Lerman Enterprises (a network of four industrial metal companies), which also owns Indiana-based Steel Warehouse Company, Inc.

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