Marmon monitors a melange of more than 130 autonomous manufacturing and service companies. A subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, Marmon's 11 manufacturing units make automotive components and trailers, food service equipment, wire and cable, industrial materials and components, consumer products, transportation equipment, building products, water-treatment products, and more. Services include marketing and distribution. Marmon is an international association of companies that operates about 250 facilities in more than 40 countries. Chicago's Pritzker family (owners of the Hyatt hotel chain) sold a 60% stake in Marmon to Berkshire Hathaway for $4.5 billion in 2008.

Kinnevik never seems to get bored of the paperboard business. Investment AB Kinnevik is one of Sweden's largest holding companies. Through its Korsnos subsidiaries, the group makes paperboard, paper, liquid packaging board, and pulp products. It also has financial and farming operations, and holds substantial investments in several companies, including Tele2 (telecommunications), Modern Times Group (radio and television), Metro International (newspapers), Transcom Worldwide (CRM software), and Millicom International Cellular (international cellular service). In 2009, Kinnevik acquired its primary stakeholder, Emesco, in a complicated transaction that streamlined the Stenbeck family's corporate ownership.

Wright Industries makes and delivers automated assembly systems and robotic integrators. It is a leader in nuclear automation and fiber formation and provides engineering, design and manufacturing services, including concurrent and reverse engineering, solid-modeling, prototype and process development, and full-scale production for the healthcare, automotive, aerospace/defense, energy, textiles, and nuclear industries. Once a subsidiary of Robotic Technology Systems, the company was acquired by the Doerfer Companies in 2004. Doerfer is an application manufacturer specializing in automation systems, controls integration, press systems, metal stamping, and forming dies.

Lawrence Pumps pumps out a variety of fluid handling products from its Lawrence, Massachusetts home base. Founded in 1935, Lawrence Pumps company manufactures axial, vertical line, and submersible pumps for use in the chemical, mining, petroleum, and steelmaking industries. Its innovative products include canned motor pumps for highly abrasive chemical slurries, cryogenic pumps (for use in liquid nitrogen and oxygen operations), and loop-reactor axial flow pumps for use in processing polyolefins. Lawrence Pumps also offers parts and repair services. Its engineering department designs new pumps in-house. Its products are sold via offices in the US, China, Singapore, and Holland and a global sales network.

Founded in France by the Demptos family in 1825, today the company has operations in France, Spain, Hungary, South Africa, and the US where it offers French, American, and Hungarian oak products. The Demptos cooperage offers a variety of barrels, but specializes in 225 liter sizes. Oak barrels are often "toasted" or slightly burnt by fire to better lend their flavor to wine as it ages. In addition to its new barrels, Tonnellerie Demptos SA company can also help customers find used wine barrels.

Defiance Metal, which takes its name from its headquarters in Defiance, Ohio, in fact is a precision fabricator of metal parts and assemblies. Its line runs from brackets and cases, to chassis, framing, housings, panels, and racks. In addition to fabricating and finishing sheet metal, the company also manufactures sheet metal forms. Defiance Metal's parts and assembly process begins with design and engineering, and moves on to CNC laser cutting, robotic welding, heavy stamping, and painting. Products cater to commercial and military vehicle, heavy-duty truck, and HVAC markets. The company is owned by an affiliate of the Weatherly Group, LLC.

Prime Advantage Corporation company is a private buying consortium focused on creating the best possible savings on raw materials, components, supplies, and services for its client base. Founded in 1997, Prime Advantage's prime strategy of aggregating the purchasing power of individual manufacturers has increased cost savings for its members on a wide array of office and industrial supplies. Prime Advantage Corporation company's supplier roster includes distributors of abrasives, bearings, circuit boards, fasteners, lift trucks, motors, pumps, and valves made by manufacturers such as Motion Industries, Fastenal Company, and Macsteel Service Centers.

Founded in 1978 as M & Ko Manufacturing, Ned Milicivic and David Ko built a reputation for excellence in manufacturing through value engineering and a technically enabled factory. For 23 years, M & Ko enjoyed the relationship as a tier 1 supplier to Medical OEM’s. Seamus Meagher joined the team serving as company president in 2000. In 2001, GCM Medical & OEM was established following the acquisition of M & Ko by GCM holdings LLC. Founders Milicivic, Ko and president Meagher re-acquired GCM Medical & OEM in 2006.GCM is headquartered in Union City, California, with 90,000 square feet dedicated to manufacturing services. GCM is a preferred supplier to OEM’s in Aerospace, Biotechnology, Data Communications, Industrial, Medical, Security, Semiconductor and Transportation. GCM offers Machining, Sheetmetal and Integration as core service solutions. Value-added services include new product introduction, supply chain management, and low cost region manufacturing in metals, plastics and plating.

Primex Plastics Corporation's talents lie between the sheets -- the custom-extruded plastic sheets that Primex Plastics Corporation company manufactures. Primex's products are based on a family of synthetic resins and sheet molding compounds, including polystyrene (HIPS), polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polyester (PETG), and ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene). The sheets are used in a myriad of products, from food and medical trays to cosmetics packaging, truck caps and bedliners, outdoor signs, paddle boats, and portable toilets. Primex operates in conjunction with subsidiaries O'Neil Color & Compounding, Pace Industries, Woodruff, and its UK arm Primex Plastics Limited. Privately held ICC Industries owns the Primex.

Founded in 1832, Simonds International is North America's oldest manufacturer of industrial cutting tools. Simonds International Corporation company maintains more than a million square feet of manufacturing space for producing a slew of tools for cutting through metal, wood, paper, and plastics. Simonds' metal-cutting products include carbon, bimetal, and carbide-tipped bandsaw blades; its wood-cutting products include bits, shanks, circular saws, machine knives, wide bandsaws, and circle saws; other offerings include files (a hand-cutting tool for producing a smooth finish on materials), steel rules, and farrier rasps.

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