There's a "whole lotta shakin' goin' on" at Alfa Laval Inc. The subsidiary of Sweden-based Alfa Laval AB makes separators (centrifuges), heat exchangers (evaporators and condensers), decanters, tank equipment, pumps, and valves under brand names Contherm, Merco, Sharples, and Tri-Clover, among others. Alfa Laval's products are used in a host of industries, from dairy and food processing to petrochemicals and steel manufacturing. Alfa Laval Inc. company also offers spare parts, reconditioned heat exchangers, and round-the-clock equipment-monitoring systems. Alfa Laval Inc. company has 14 locations in the US, including six manufacturing facilities, an international distribution center, and seven service and repair centers.

Titan Textile Company manufactures textiles upto 90 million pounds of polyester and nylon yarn a year! The privately held company stands as the #2 producer of textured yarn in North America. Its yarns run from textured and flat polyester and nylon to spun, flat, and industrial yarn, as well as a variety of cotton and rayon blends. Titan Textile also imports and distributes cotton and polyester/cotton spun yarns to apparel markets. Its yarn and fabrics are sold worldwide to manufacturers of industrial and consumer goods, including automotive fabric, lining, ribbon, rope-and-cordage, shoelace, tarp, and wall covering threads.

Fiber is an important part of one's diet; OFS BrightWave's fiber optics are an important part of network connectivity. The company's fiber-optic cable products include central tube, fusion splicers, specialty photonics, loose tube, ribbon, air-blown fiber cables, and connectivity components. Furukawa Electric acquired the optical fiber cable business of Lucent (now Alcatel-Lucent) and formed OFS BrightWave and its sister company, OFS Fitel, which makes optical fibers and related products. The OFS group operates additional fiber-optic plants in Denmark, Germany, Russia, and across the US, and has sales offices around the world.

Atlantic Tool & Die found a company to die for when it hooked up with Honda in the late 1980s. The metal stamping company serves major automakers, including Honda of America Manufacturing in Marysville, Ohio. Founded in 1937, Atlantic Tool & Die manufactures metal stampings and assemblies from its five facilities in Alabama, Ohio, and Texas. The company established its main facility in Strongsville, Ohio in 1967. Atlantic Tool & Die supplies automotive parts and tools worldwide on the just-in-time delivery system. Under the leadership of Frank Mehwald, the company has grown from a small-time die maker into a major parts supplier.

Capstone Turbine Corporation develops, manufactures, markets, and services turbine generator sets and related parts for use in stationary distributed power generation applications. Its stationary distributed power generation applications include cogeneration, combined heat and power (CHP), integrated CHP, resource recovery, and power, as well as combined cooling, heat, and power; and its products are used as battery charging generators for hybrid electric vehicle applications. The company also offers microturbine units, subassemblies, components, and various accessories, including rotary gas compressors with digital controls, heat recovery modules for CHP applications, dual mode controllers that allow automatic transition between grid connect and stand-alone modes, batteries with digital controls for stand-alone/dual-mode operations, power servers for large multipacked installations, and protocol converters for Internet access, as well as frames, exhaust ducting, and installation hardware. In addition, it remanufactures microturbine engines; and provides after-market parts and services, scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, and factory and on-site training services.

Bristol Metals is the largest US manufacturer of stainless steel welded pipe. Its pipe is also made from corrosion-resistant nickel alloy and titanium. The line ranges from 1/2 to 120 inches in diameter, and 36 inches to 48-feet in length. Bristol grew in 2009 with the acquisition of carbon pipe maker Ram-Fab. Bristol serves diverse arenas -- petrochemical, mining, power (including nuclear), brewery, food processing, and pulp and paper. Its manufacture of large alloy pipe, rare among domestic pipe makers, enables the company to also enter markets for waste water treatment, liquid natural gas, and scrubbers for power industries. The company is a subsidiary of Synalloy.

Southern Aluminum Finishing Company makes items such as aluminum architectural cornices, copings, drainware, gravel stops, and gutters. The company also provides aluminum coil anodizing and custom coating and painting. SAF's anodizing process converts the aluminum surface into an extremely hard, durable, corrosion resistant, and long lasting aluminum oxide finish. The company's Perimeter Systems division manufactures composition, metal, slate, and tile roofing products. SAF was founded in 1946.

Exopack manufactures flexible packaging, film, and paper options for over 1,600 customers marketing pet food to food and beverages, lawn and garden, cement, agricultural staples, and more. Its core segments produce plastic films such as laminated rollstock, converted plastics like standup pouches and edge seam bags, consumer paper for popcorn, coffee, and pet food bags, and coated products for printing, electronic, medical, or security uses. The company's facilities dot North America and the UK. Exopack originated from a merger of Exopack LLC, Cello-Foil, and The Packaging Group. It is an affiliate company of Sun Capital Partners.

Acme Packaging Corporation, the inventor of steel strapping, has been a leader in packaging solutions since 1880 by offering our customers high quality, cost-effective products. Illinois Tool Work's acquisition of the Acme Business in 2003 provided our channel partners and end users with a more comprehensive product line that included steel strapping, plastic strapping, equipment and the application tools for each. Acme Packaging continues to provide the industry's leading distributor sales channel with product support to help ensure user satisfaction and help drive our growth.

Alvord-Polk has heeded this advice for more than 125 years. Alvord-Polk company manufactures a range of cutting tools, from reamers to core drills, counterbores, and power brushes. The tools are sold primarily to the aerospace and automotive industries under the Alvord-Polk Tool, Brush One, Laserclad, and Morton Machine Works brands. Alvord-Polk makes standard reamers, as well as special custom-made tools, for customers throughout the US. Alvord-Polk company also offers industrial imported tools, and surplus tools. Jake Alvord and A. J. Polk founded Alvord-Polk in 1881. Ronald Boyer, Alvord-Polk company's former president, and past secretary-treasurer Robert Rissinger bought Alvord-Polk in 1977.

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