Since 1911, Hoover Materials Handling Group, Inc. has been providing the highest quality liquid handling solutions and services to the chemical, petrochemical, food and beverage, and other industries.The Hoover legacy is a company that is built to last and manufactures products that are built to last. Hoover is steeped in a tradition of manufacturing a long lasting, durable, and quality product. We bring a rich heritage of over 60 years of manufacturing experience to the liquid handling industry, and we consistently offer high quality tanks to our customers.

Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG) is a world player in paper based packaging with leading market positions in Europe and in Latin America. With sales in 2009 of € 6 billion and around 38,000 employees, the Smurfit Kappa Group is a focused player in paper based packaging. Operating in 30 countries (21 in Europe and 9 in Latin America), it is the European leader in containerboard, solid board, corrugated and solid board packaging and has a key position in several other packaging and paper market segments including graphic board and sack paper. It is a market leader in corrugated in Latin America and occupies the number two position in containerboard there. Its Group headquarters are in Dublin with regional headquarters in Paris (Europe) and Miami (Latin America).

PRAB (named after the first initials in the names of the company's founders) manufactures metal scrap reclamation systems and bulk material handling equipment. Its products include briquetting systems, conveyors, metal stamping scrap systems, and metal chip processing systems, which are used in the chemical, food processing, and pharmaceutical industries. Its Hapman division serves the pharmaceutical, chemical, food, plastics, packaging, mining and waste water treatment industries. Kalamazoo Acquisition, an investment firm led by PRAB's management, has acquired PRAB company and merged it with its newly formed Kalamazoo PRAB subsidiary.

The Wisconsin-based company has been designing and manufacturing heavy-duty attachments for utility tractors, skid/steer loaders, tractors, and lawn and garden equipment since 1920. It jointly develops and markets its lineup through commercial and consumer OEMs including Deere & Company and Great Bend., in addition to serving distributors and end-users. The design-and-build business tailors equipment from medium duty backhoes for compact utility tractors to self-propelled golf course mowers. In 2009 Michael Festge stepped up as chairman and CEO. Hit with tumbling orders, Amerequip has laid off over 15% of its workforce.

Barry-Wehmiller Company manufactures and supplies packaging, corrugating, paper converting, filling, and labeling automation equipment for a broad spectrum of industries. It conducts business around the world through its subsidiaries including Accraply (labeling machinery), Barry-Wehmiller Company (bottle washers and pasteurizers); HayssenSandiacre and Thiele Technologies (packaging systems); PneumaticScaleAngelus (bottle fillers and cappers); and FleetwoodGoldcoWyard (conveyor systems). Other divisions manufacture paper converting machinery and offer engineering/design consulting services. Chairman and CEO Bob Chapman and his family hold a controlling stake in the company.

Quorum International makes decorative residential-lighting fixtures and ceiling fans. Quorum company, which claims the position of being the world's largest fan and lighting fixture maker, also makes ceiling mounts, chandeliers, entry lighting, pendants, outdoor lighting, track and recessed fixtures, vanity lighting fixtures, wall mounts, and sconces. Additionally, it manufactures door chimes and lampshades. Quorum International markets its products throughout the US as well as Central America and the Caribbean.

Power Plastics Ltd company makes industrial-strength plastic items such as pond and tank liners, fumigation sheeting, and protective padding such as gym mats. Power Plastics makes other products including construction sheeting, thermal liners, pool covers, secure environment chambers, and germination enclosures. They are also a major supplier of foam-filled landing areas (think pole vaulting) for UK athletic stadiums.

Troy Aikman doesn't lob bricks, but the former Cowboys quarterback does pitch products for Acme Brick. From more than 20 brick manufacturing plants, the Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary produces and distributes more than a billion bricks annually to its construction customers in a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes. It also makes all-brick wood-burning fireplace systems. Acme Brick holds a family of companies, including Acme-Ochs Brick & Stone, offering brick and natural stone; American Tile, distributing residential and commercial stone tiles; Featherlite masonry materials; IBP Glass Block Grid System, making custom aluminum glass block grids; and Texas Quarries, supplying limestone.

An authorized Caterpillar dealer founded in 1960, Southworth-Milton, Inc. (doing business as Milton CAT) sells and rents new and used construction, forestry, material handling, and paving equipment, as well as truck and marine engines, power systems, and various work tools. In addition to Caterpillar, the company offers Powercrusher, Metso, and Genie branded equipment. It also provides parts and maintenance services. Southworth-Milton operates more than a dozen service centers in the northeastern US. Southworth-Milton company is owned by the Milton family.

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.

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