Shaw Industries is one of the world's largest carpet manufacturers.Shaw Industries sells woven and tufted broadloom carpet and rugs, as well as other flooring products including laminate, ceramic tile, and hardwood in North America, and exports worldwide. Its carpet brand names include Cabin Crafts, Queen, Designweave, Philadelphia, and Sutton. The company also rolls out a line of both continuous filament fiber carpet and hardwood flooring containing recycled content. Shaw sells its residential products to distributors and retailers and offers commercial products directly to contractors through Shaw Contract Flooring. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owns Shaw Industries.

Schunk Graphite Technology, LLC engages in the manufacture and distribution of carbon, graphite, ceramic, and complementary products for electrical, mechanical, automotive, and thermal applications in North America. Its products include wear resistant carbon, graphite, and silicon carbide bearings and seal rings; carbon brushes for automotive, current transmission, railway, industry, and small motor technology applications; materials for high temperature applications; and vacuum furnace fixtures, seal faces, and fiber composite and silicon carbide ceramic materials. The company’s products also include fuel cell plates; C/SiC materials and coatings for utilization in space conditions; contact strips for pantographs; and graphite tiles and connectors for reactor technology applications. It offers its products through representatives in Austria, Brazil, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, Poland, the Republic of Korea, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, and the United Kingdom.

Festo AG & Co. KG was established in 1925. Festo AG & Co. KG company's products include valves, valve terminals, handling and assembly technology, drives, sensors, vacuum technology, and bus systems. Festo AG serves more than 300,000 customers in over 175 countries in the electronics, automotive, and food and packaging industries, among others. Festo company employs about 200 R&D engineers and operates from more than 250 branch offices; it also offers training courses, seminars, e-learning, and consulting services. Festo AG provides catalogues in more than 20 languages.

Besser manufactures equipment for the worldwide concrete products industry. It serves all segments, including landscape, pipe, precast, ready-mix, and masonry. Besser company sells both new and used equipment, along with molds and machine parts. It also offers training for maintaining, operating, and troubleshooting machinery. Besser company was founded in 1904 as the Besser Manufacturing Co. by Jesse Besser; CEO James Park is his great-nephew. Besser operates in Canada, Germany, and the US. In 2010 the company acquired Kraft Energy, a supplier of quick concrete curing equipment sold to makers of concrete products.

Pushing paper is a full time job at ArjoWiggins. The Sequana Capital subsidiary manufactures and markets a swath of paper products. Its lineup bridges five business segments: Creative paper for business writing and fine packaging; Graphic coated and non-coated paper for publishing and printing; Coated US paper for digital printing, custom text, and covered goods; Industrial for decor, medical (sterile wraps), and thin papers; and Security such as banknotes, secure documents, and synthetic papers. ArjoWiggins sells its paper goods across Europe, Asia, the Americas, and, through subsidiary Appleton Coated, the US. Holding about 30 paper mills today, ArjoWiggins company dates back to a 1469 paper mill in Arches, France.

AbitibiBowater Inc., together with its subsidiaries, produces and sells newsprint, coated and specialty papers, market pulp, and wood products. It offers newsprint; coated mechanical papers; and specialty papers, including supercalendered, superbright, high bright, bulky book, and directory papers for use in magazines, catalogs, books, retail advertising, direct mail, and coupons. AbitibiBowater company also provides market pulp products for use in various consumer products, including tissues, packaging, specialty paper products, diapers, and other absorbent products; and construction-grade lumber products. In addition, it remanufactures and engineers wood for specialized applications, such as bedding components, roofing and flooring material, and other products; and sells pulpwood, saw timber, and wood chips. The company serves commercial printers, publishers, catalogers, retailers, and direct mailers through its regional sales offices and international sales agents. As of December 31, 2009, it owned or operated 23 pulp and paper manufacturing facilities in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and South Korea; and 26 wood products facilities in Canada. AbitibiBowater company is based in Montreal, Canada. On April 16, 2009, AbitibiBowater Inc. and its subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware for relief under the provisions of Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.

Associated Weavers International (AWI) hopes its products will continue to be trampled upon for years to come. Producing tufted and woven carpets, the company exports its products worldwide but enjoys a prominent place within European markets. Products include wall-to-wall carpets, rugs, runners, and carpet tiles for both industrial and residential clients under the brand names AW, Balsan, and Prado. In 2006 AWI was acquired by Belgian holding company, Beaulieu Kruishoutem Group. After the acquisition AWI added the materials sourcing, processing, and nylon yarn production operations of sister company, Beaulieu Nylon, to its own carpet-making enterprise.

Pioneer Metal Finishing proves its mettle by finishing the metal products of others. Pioneer Metal Finishing offers a range of metal finishing techniques, from bright dip anodizing to clear and dyed anodizing, hard lubing, and electroless nickel plating. Its finishes also include acid etch, dry film lubricants, and chromate conversion. Customers -- OEMs and job shops -- operate predominantly in commercial and industrial markets that require parts with increased wear and corrosion resistance, lubricity, heat dissipation, or dielectric properties. Pioneer Metal has divisions in six US cities, each within 300-miles of core customers, or the distance its fleet of tractor trailers can reasonably pick up and deliver metal goods.

Haulotte Group SA, through its subsidiaries, manufactures and distributes people and material lifting equipment in Europe and internationally. It offers people lifting equipment, such as telescopic booms, scissors lifts, vertical masts, trailers mounted booms, lightweight self-propelled booms, articulating booms, push arounds, trailers, and truck-mounted booms. The company also provides material lifting and earth moving equipment, including backhoe loaders and telehandlers. In addition, it offers aerial work platforms, system and utility scaffolds, event staging and seatings, drywall equipment, and escalate equipment trailers. Further, the company involves in the rental of people and material lifting equipment. Additionally, it provides spare parts, as well as repairs and financing services.

Founded in 1985, Retrotech specializes in automated pallet handling systems. It provides consulting, maintenance, system design, and technical support services. Retrotech is an engineering firm that designs, makes, installs, and modernizes stand-alone and integrated automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) for distribution centers, plants, and warehouses. Its products include automated guided vehicles, automated racking equipment, overhead cranes and hoists, stacker cranes, and warehouse management software. Retrotech owns Woodson Company, a food and beverage AS/RS software and services provider. Customers include Proctor & Gamble and Cargill Meats.

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