Royal Ten Cate and its subsidiaries operate on four continents, creating textiles and synthetic materials used in a wide range of applications. On the industrial side, TenCate makes everything from aerospace composites to antiballistic fabrics and artificial turf. It also manufactures textiles used in civil engineering, agriculture, and water management, as well as more prosaic fabrics such as tent cloth. The firm touts itself as the oldest Dutch industrial firm with the prestigious "Royal" appellation, which it garnered in the 19th Century.

Gardner Denver, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets engineered industrial machinery and related parts and services primarily in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, and Australia. It operates in two segments, Industrial Products Group and Engineered Products Group. The Industrial Products Group segment offers rotary screw, reciprocating, and sliding vane air compressors, which are used in manufacturing, process applications and materials handling, and power air tools and equipment; and positive displacement, centrifugal, and side channel blowers that are used primarily in pneumatic conveying, wastewater aeration, and various applications in industrial manufacturing and engineered vacuum systems. The Engineered Products Group segment designs, manufactures, markets, and services pumps, liquid ring pumps, single-piece piston reciprocating, diaphragm vacuum pumps, water jetting systems, and related aftermarket parts used in oil and natural gas well drilling, servicing and production, and in industrial cleaning and maintenance. This segment also offers liquid ring pumps for vacuum applications, such as water removal, distilling, reacting, flare gas recovery, efficiency improvement, lifting and handling, and filtering, principally in the pulp and paper, industrial manufacturing, petrochemical, and power industries, as well as designs, manufactures, markets, and services other fluid transfer components and equipment for the chemical, petroleum, and food industries. The company sells its products through independent distributors and sales representatives, as well as directly to original equipment manufacturers, engineering firms, packagers, and end users.

Ford Meter Box, manufactures waterworks brass valves and fittings, water meter setting equipment, water meter testing equipment, and products for pipeline maintenance and restraint. Its products include adapter flanges, casing spacers, couplings, copperhorns, restraints for ductile iron pipe and PVC pipe, lid covers, and of course, meter boxes. The company sells internationally through its export division; sales in the US are handled by distributors. During the 1960s Ford Meter Box introduced the ball valve, an industry first. In the1980s the company was also an industry pioneer with its introduction of check valves as part of meter settings.

One of Japan's largest agricultural-machinery makers, Iseki produces an array of tractors, combine harvesters, and tillers for each phase of vegetable and rice farming. Although machinery for rice production is a revenue mainstay, consumer purchases of compact tractors, mowers, and lithium-ion battery run tillers have grown. Iseki supplies AGCO Corporation with OEM models for the US, as well as teams up with smaller equipment makers to develop machines for specialized crops and farming chores, like separating harvested vegetables. Many of the Iseki products for Asian markets are made by Iseki-Changzhou, a China-based subsidiary.

Quabbin Wire & Cable Co., Inc. is a privately held corporation founded in 1975 by Paul Engel. The factory and offices comprise a 140,000 square foot facility in Ware, Massachusetts, about a two hour drive west of Boston. Quabbin Wire & Cable employs approximately 100 people and has total annual sales of $25,000,000.

Agri-Fab has the tools to get the job done. Since 1973, the company has manufactured lawn and garden attachments for tractors and in recent years for three-wheeled all-terrain vehicles (ATVs). Among its lineup of rust-resistant tow-behind lawngrooming equipment are sweepers, aerators, carts, levelers, and mowers. Agri-Fab operates a 350,000-sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Illinois. Its products are sold through select dealers, such as the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, Lowe's, Sears, and True Value. The company's customers also can order replacement parts through its website.

Dealing with CLARK Material Handling can be an uplifting experience. Founded in 1917 to make material handling trucks, CLARK has produced more than 1 million forklifts. Selling through its global network of 550-plus dealers, the company's line of forklifts includes internal combustion trucks, electric riders, narrow-aisle stackers, and powered hand trucks. CLARK also supplies aftermarket parts, as well as Totalift-brand parts to fit other manufacturers' forklifts. CLARK Material Handling company has more than 250,000 lift trucks operating in North America and more than 350,000 units globally. Young An Hat Company, a South Korean industrial conglomerate, controls CLARK Material Handling company.

Freudenberg is a family-owned group of companies active on the global stage. Its 14 Business Groups operate on various markets and in various sectors of industry. Freudenberg develops and produces seals, vibration control technology components, filters, nonwovens, release agents and specialty lubricants as well as mechatronic products. Freudenberg offers its customers in the automotive, mechanical and plant engineering, textile and clothing, construction and mining, energy, chemical, oil and gas industries tailor-made, innovative technological products and services. Customer groupings also include companies in the medical technology, civil aviation and semi-conductor sectors. Freudenberg develops software solutions and IT services primarily for small- and medium-sized enterprises. Final users enjoy the benefits of Freudenberg's stateof-the-art household products marketed under the vileda®, O'Cedar® and Wettex® brands.Creativity, diversity and innovative strength are the company's cornerstones. Reliability and responsible action rank among the basic values of the company which was founded over 160 years ago. Freudenberg is committed to partnerships with customers, and believes in a long-term orientation, financial solidity and the excellence of some 32,000 associates in 55 countries around the globe.Freudenberg sees itself as an enterprising corporation. Operative business is the responsibility of stand-alone companies whose management conducts business autonomously. The individual companies belong to one of several Business Groups. The executive bodies of the parent company Freudenberg & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft - the Management Board, the Board of Partners, and the Partners' Meeting - have responsibilities similar to those of the Executive Board, the Supervisory Board and the Shareholders Meeting in German corporations. The parent company's Corporate Functions control, coordinate and monitor the activities of the Freudenberg Group and provide advice and support to Business Groups. The Management Board members are jointly responsible for the leadership of the Freudenberg Group.Freudenberg is a family company. It is owned by some 300 heirs to the founding father Carl Johann Freudenberg.

Founded in 1990, KEM-TRON Technologies, Inc. operates a facility in Texas, and a service and maintenance hub in Russia. KEM-TRON Technologies is credited with developing a line of dewatering systems used in zero liquid discharge/closed loop mud systems. KEM-TRON company designs, manufactures, and distributes equipment for solids separation and polymer applications. Its multifunctional linear motion shaker/mud cleaner, used in mobile mud systems, touts simultaneous flow line running with hydro-cyclone underflow cleaning. Other products include a jet shearing and mixing system, integral to drilling rigs, and a vacuum degasser, to separate gases. KEM-TRON units are installed in some 30 countries.

Ebara Corporation's products keep fluids flowing, air and water clear, and networks humming. Ebara Corporation company is one of the world's largest manufacturers of industrial pumps and related equipment. Ebara's environmental engineering segment offers fluidized-bed gasification (turning biomass waste into combustible gas) and incineration, water treatment, and vacuum sewerage systems. The company's precision machinery group makes products such as chemical mechanical polishers, wafer carrier washers, and solder-plating equipment, for use in the manufacture of semiconductors and other high-precision devices. Ebara has significant market presence in China, Europe, and the US; 30% of its total sales come from overseas.

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