Asahi Glass Company shatters the conventional image of glassmakers. The world's #1 maker of flat glass also claims the top spot in automotive glass, plasma display panel substrates, and fluorinated resins. Glass for construction, automotive, and other applications account for half of Asahi Glass' overall sales. The company's Electronics and Display division makes high-purity silicon carbide and synthetic quartz glass for semiconductors and glass substrates for LCDs, while its Chemicals unit manufactures soda ash, caustic soda, and other specialty chemicals. Subsidiaries include US-based AGC America and French glassmaker Glaverbel.

The Heerema Company began in 1922 with a marketing approach toward the New York and New Jersey dairy industry. Since our inception, the company found a growing need in the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. Because of our expertise in refrigeration and sanitary installations, the company found an easy transition to accommodate growth and give our customers a complete turn-key plant, utilizing state of the art technology. As a result, Heerema Company is known as a very experienced engineering and service oriented company. Our aim has always been to provide our customers with the best answers to their processing needs.

Founded in 1973, A-L-L Equipment, Inc. distributes pumps and air compressors and provides maintenance and repair services. Its pump products can be used to move anything from abrasives and chemicals to water and waste. Some of the company's services include static and dynamic balancing, oil sampling, and air systems analysis. A-L-L Equipment services pumps and compressors made by manufacturers such as Gorman-Rupp, Ingersoll-Rand, ITT Industries, and Roper Industries. A-L-L Equipment company operates from offices in Moline and Loves Park, Illinois as well as Omaha.

Bonso Electronics International Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, assembles, and markets a range of telecommunications products, electronic scales, weighing instruments, and health care products. It offers sensor based scale products that include bathroom, kitchen, office, jewelry, laboratory, postal, and industrial scales, which are used in consumer, commercial, and industrial applications; and wireless telecommunications products comprising two-way radios and cordless telephones that are used in consumer and commercial applications. Bonso Electronics company also engages in the development and manufacture of tooling and molding for scales. It manufactures its products in China, and serves private label original equipment manufacturers, original brand manufacturers, and original design manufacturers primarily in North America and Europe. Bonso Electronics company was formerly known as Golden Virtue Limited and changed its name to Bonso Electronics International Inc. in September 1988. Bonso Electronics International Inc. was founded in 1988 and is based in Shatin, Hong Kong.

Astec Industries was founded in 1972. Astec Industries, Inc. (Astec) designs, engineers, manufactures and markets equipment and components used primarily in road building, utility and related construction activities, as well as other products. The Company's products are used in each phase of road building, from quarrying and crushing the aggregate to application of the road surface. The Company also manufactures certain equipment and components unrelated to road construction, including trenching, auger boring, directional drilling, gas and oil drilling rigs, industrial heat transfer equipment, whole-tree pulpwood chippers, horizontal grinders and blower trucks. Astec operates in four business segments: Asphalt Group, Aggregate and Mining Group, Mobile Asphalt Paving Group and Underground Group. As of December 31, 2009, the Company's subsidiaries held 101 United States patents and 36 foreign patents, and had 53 patent applications pending. The Company's products are marketed both domestically and internationally.

Highway engineer J. J. (Joe) Swanson and Wyoming contractor W. A. Norris founded Nebraska Machinery Company in 1938. Nebraska Machinery Company sells and leases new and used Caterpillar equipment through locations in Nebraska and Iowa. Besides the Caterpillar brand, Nebraska Machinery company sells other makes of equipment including Blue Giant, Hawker, Princeton, and Taylor-Dunn. NMC serves customers in the agricultural, construction, industrial, and material handling industries. It operates nine rental stores in Nebraska and Iowa. Nebraska Machinery opened a repair facility in Lincoln, Nebraska, to service highway truck engines.

C. R. Laurence Company supplies more than 50,000 different industrial products, such as all-glass storefront and entrance systems, architectural hardware, architectural metal and railing systems (under the TAPER-LOC dry-glaze brand), display systems, shower doors, and window and door hardware. Peripheral products that cater to glass professionals include adhesives, cleaners, lubricants, sealants, and hand held power tools. Automotive offerings include vehicle windows and sunroofs. C. R. Laurence company serves the architectural, automotive, construction, glazing, and railing industries. CRL operates through more than 25 locations in North America, Europe, and Australia.

Plastipak Holdings, Inc. company produces 8 billion-plus plastic containers a year for consumer products' manufacturers. Containers are used to hold beverages (soft drinks, water, juices, and beer); cleansers (laundry soap, household cleaners); processed foods (coffee creamer, salad dressing); hygiene (mouthwash, perfume); and industrial and automotive goods (motor oil, windshield washer fluid). Plastipak Holdings company serves multi-national, established companies, such as Procter & Gamble, Reckitt Benckiser, Kraft Foods, Quaker Oats, Kroger, and Tropicana. Plastipak operates in the US, Europe, and South America. It is owned and led by the Young family.

Extruding confidence in the face of difficult environments, Lauren Manufacturing lets its products seal the deal. The custom extrusion company uses organic, silicone, and specialty polymer materials (butyl rubber and neoprene, for example) to mold products such as weather stripping, high performance (UV and ozone resistant) synthetic rubber sponges, automotive gaskets, and seals. Supplying industries from vehicle and transportation to building and construction and container manufacturers, its 1,000-plus customers include General Motors, Harley-Davidson, IBM, and Pella Windows. Lauren International acts as parent company of Lauren Manufacturing and divisions Edgetech, Lauren AgriSystems, and LMI Custom Mixing.

AGY is a world leader in high performance materials used in a broad range of markets, including Automotive, Construction, Defense, Electronics, Aerospace, Marine, and Recreation. High performance materials in the form of glass fiber yarns and reinforcements provide our customers six vital enhanced properties:Strength, impact resistance, stiffness, temperature resistance, fatigue resistance and radar transparency.With a product portfolio developed for extreme performance utilizing a set of unique manufacturing platforms AGY provides tailored materials solutions to end use customers for the most demanding applications worldwide.

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