Roses Southwest Papers has bloomed in the desert Southwest by manufacturing napkins, tissue paper, and paper bags used in fast food restaurants and other places of business. The company's tissue products include bathroom tissue, center pull towels, facial tissue, fold towels, kitchen roll towels, jumbo roll tissue, and roll towels. Roses Southwest Papers also provides custom converting and private labeling services. Roses Southwest Papers, Inc. company counts McDonald's and Burger King among its major clients. Roses Southwest Papers is owned and operated by CEO Roberto Espat and other members of the Espat family.

H&E Equipment Services was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. H&E Equipment Services, Inc., an integrated equipment services company, provides heavy construction and industrial equipment in the United States. It rents, sells, and provides parts and service support for hi-lift or aerial platform equipment, cranes, earthmoving equipment, and industrial lift trucks. The company also sells new and used equipment and parts, as well as provides maintenance and repair services for the customers owned equipment. In addition, H&E Equipment Services offers ancillary equipment support activities, including transportation, hauling, parts shipping, and loss damage waivers. The company provides its services to industrial and commercial companies, construction contractors, manufacturers, public utilities, municipalities, and maintenance contractors, as well as for other industrial accounts. As of March 1, 2010, the company served approximately 29,500 customers through 66 full-service facilities across 24 states in the West Coast, Intermountain, Southwest, Gulf Coast, Southeast, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

The John Henry of folklore may have been a steel-driving man, but The John Henry Company has a more delicate touch. It makes, prints, and sells specialty packaging to the floral industry (baskets, ceramic mugs, glassware, and wreaths), as well as personal note cards, envelopes, and plant tags. Since its start in 1912, the John Henry company has grown from plants to packaging. Through its John Henry Packaging Group, the company manufactures custom-designed blister packs, product labels and inserts, and cartons, coupled with a range of printing services, primarily for mid-size pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, and, to a lesser extent, food and beverage markets. Bear Stearns Merchant Banking owns the John Henry company.

Gefran S.p.A.company makes control systems, sensors, and instruments (indicators, inverters, timers, and solid state relays), as well as measuring systems for industrial processes such as electronics assembly and microelectronics fabrication. Its sensors measure force, pressure, humidity, and temperature; its pressure controllers and indicators are used in extrusion and injection-molding processes. Gefran also makes specialized computer systems for the rubber, plastics, food, and pharmaceutical industries. Chairman Ennio Franceschetti, along with his family, control Gefran S.p.A.

Giti, a global tire manufacturer, operates from 7 strategically located manufacturing plants in China. Adopting a multi-brand strategy, Giti offers a complete range of quality tires and exports to over 100 countries worldwide with North America and Europe as the key export markets.Ranked as one of the leading tire manufacturer in China and the 14th largest globally in terms of sales revenue, Giti attributes its success to fair business practice and willingness to invest in people, research & development and manufacturing technology.Giti is also fully aware of its corporate citizen role and will continue to contribute and support social and environmental improvement programs.

Pentaflex (named in part after its five original investors) flexes its muscles as a manufacturer of metal stampings. The company operates hydraulic presses, mechanical presses, and steelweld presses to make its metal stampings. It also uses such methods as heat treating, painting, and plating. Customers include companies which design and make axles, brakes, clutches, transmissions, and wheel and drive line components for heavy trucks. Pentaflex also sells metal stampings to the agriculture, automotive, lawn and garden, and the industrial markets. The company was founded in 1972.

SPX Corporation provides flow technology products, test and measurement products, thermal equipment and services, and industrial products and services worldwide. The company’s Flow Technology segment provides products and solutions that are used to blend, meter, and transport fluids. This segment offers high-integrity pumps, valves, heat exchangers, fluid mixers, agitators, metering systems, and filters and dehydration equipment for food and beverage, oil and gas, power generation, chemical, mining, and general industrial industries. Its Test and Measurement segment provides diagnostic service tools, fare-collection systems, and portable cable and pipe locators for the transportation, telecommunications, and utility industries. The company’s Thermal Equipment and Services segment engineers, manufactures, and services cooling, heating, and ventilation products, including dry, wet, and hybrid cooling systems for the power generation, refrigeration, HVAC, and industrial markets, as well as hydronic, and heating and ventilation products for the commercial and residential markets. This segment also provides thermal components and engineered services to power and steam generation plants. Its Industrial Products and Services segment designs, manufactures, and markets power transformers for utilities; industrial tools and hydraulic units, and precision machine components for the aerospace industry; crystal growing machines for the solar power generation; television, radio, and cell phone and data transmission broadcast antenna systems; communications and signal monitoring systems; and precision controlled industrial ovens and chambers. The company sells its products through stocking distributors, manufacturing representatives, third-party distributors, direct sales, and retailers. It was formerly known as Piston Ring Company and changed its name to SPX Corporation in 1988. SPX Corporation was founded in 1911 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Concept Packaging Group packages a lot more than original ideas. It manufactures corrugated paperboard, corrugated plastic, wood packaging, and other packaging materials. The company's thermoformed trays can be made to precisely fit customers' products while its corrugated products provide disposable and reusable packaging options. For products that fall outside the box, Concept Packaging's wood packaging and metal racks accommodate bulkier items, ranging from heavy equipment to motors. Concept Packaging Group company also provides contract packaging, logistics services, and inventory management. The company's 15 manufacturing facilities are located east of the Mississippi, with one in California.

Ariens Company makes a line of consumer lawn and garden equipment. Its mowers to tillers are sold under multiple brands including the Ariens name, and its snow removal equipment under the Sno-Thro brand. Semi-famous "Lawnmower Boy" Ryan Tripp used an Ariens mower to mow the grounds of 50 state capitols and the White House -- all for charity. The company's Stens Corp. offers aftermarket replacement parts for power equipment via catalog sales and dealers in more than 30 countries. Ariens also produces Gravely-brand commercial grounds-maintenance equipment, and the Locke and National brands for intricate golf course maintenance. The family of founder Henry Ariens owns Ariens.

Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. engages in the design, development, production, and sale of integrated process control metrology systems and stand-alone metrology systems for the semiconductor manufacturing industry. Its product line comprises metrology systems for use in thin film measurement in chemical mechanical polishing and chemical vapor deposition; optical CD and metal line thickness systems for use in post-copper chemical mechanical polishing; and optical critical dimension systems for lithography and etches applications. Nova Measuring Instruments company also offers integrated thickness monitoring systems for chemical mechanical polishing process control that enables wafer-to-wafer closed loop control. It serves various sectors of the integrated circuit manufacturing industry, including logic, ASIC, foundries, and memory manufacturers, as well as semiconductor and process equipment manufacturers in the United States, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. Nova Measuring Instruments company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Ness-Ziona, Israel.

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