Regal Beloit Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells electrical and mechanical products to original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and end users. Regal Beloit company operates in two segments, Electrical and Mechanical. The Electrical segment offers heating, ventilation, and air conditioning motors; alternate current (AC) and direct current (DC) commercial and industrial electric motors; and electric generators and controls, and capacitors. These products are used in various industrial applications, such as compressor, pump, paper, and steel processing and power plants. This segment also produces precision servo motors, automatic transfer switches, paralleling switchgears, and a line of AC and DC adjustable speed drives. The Mechanical segment offers a range of mechanical motion control products, including worm gear, bevel gear, helical gear, and concentric shaft gearboxes; marine transmissions; after-market automotive transmissions, and ring and pinions; custom gearings; gear motors; electrical connecting devices; and manual valve actuators, which are primarily used in oil and gas, water distribution and treatment, and chemical processing applications.

Bull Moose Tube is quite serious about its role in the tubular market. A subsidiary of UK-based steel maker Caparo Group since 1988, the company manufactures mechanical and structural tubes and sprinkler pipe. Offering one of the largest size ranges in the industry, it makes as-welded mechanical tubes, hollow structural sections, V50 pipe, and sprinkler pipe, used in building structures, handrails, telescopes, and vehicle underbodies. Bull Moose Tube's growth caught investor notice in 2007 when SPP Capital Group offered $100 million for the company. The deal was later pulled due to market conditions.

The Protomold Company is forming a future for itself. The Protomold company, a division of Proto Labs, designs and develops rapid injection molded parts and specializes in quick turnaround and low-volume production. Its end goal is to assist design engineers in bringing new products to market more quickly. Protomold has expanded its North American manufacturing operations. In 2005 it also opened a UK facility, which serves the European market and represents the company's first international expansion. The Protomold company was founded in 1985 and originally was involved in desktop publishing. Reacting to the lengthy turnaround for obtaining injection-molded parts, Protomold found a new calling in making molded parts.

Work at Advanced Drainage Systems (ADS) isn't going down the drain, it is the drain. ADS manufactures high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes for storm and sanitary sewers, agricultural drainage, road and highway construction, and residential and commercial development. The corrugated HDPE lineup runs from culverts to drains, fittings, grates, grease interceptors, and leaching chambers. ADS even offers a mix of green building products. Customers are mining and timber operators as well as engineers in highway construction and waste management systems. ADS products lie under fabled US athletic turf and recreation sites, such as Augusta National, Dodger Stadium, and Lambeau Field. ADS is an employee-owned company.

Henry Technologies makes products that control the flow of liquids and gases -- including liquid indicators, strainers, and valves -- through its Henry Valve Division. Henry's AC&R Components division produces compressor protective devices, including accumulators, oil level regulators, and oil separators. Henry Technologies company also makes heat transfer products and pressure vessels through its branded Chil-Con division (Canada). Henry has manufacturing locations in Canada, Scotland, and the US.

Alpan Lighting Products company specializes in design, development, and manufacture of solar lights for residential settings. Alpan's lineup includes stainless steel, bronze, cooper, and plastic solar garden lights, solar stepping stones, decorative outdoor post lamps, as well as low- and line-voltage powered lights, and replacement parts and batteries. Alpan Lighting Products company is headquartered in California and operates manufacturing facilities in China, Malaysia, and Hong Kong. Alpan sells its products through its website and, to a lesser extent, through major retail and home improvement centers in the US, such as Ace Hardware and Wal-Mart.

An international heavyweight in pump manufacturing, Grundfos A/S company makes more than 16 million pump units a year. It produces water pumps, including circulator, centrifugal, solar, self-priming, and submersible units. Its circulator pumps are used in heating, air-conditioning, and ventilation systems. Its industrial pumps are used in process facilities and for plant maintenance. Grundfos also offers pumps for irrigation, greenhouses, and private, municipal, and industrial water supply facilities. Grundfos was established in 1945 by Poul Due Jensen and is owned by the Poul Due Jensen Foundation and Jensen's heirs.

ESCO is well ensconced as a global manufacturer of engineered metal parts, castings, and components for industrial machinery. ESCO company's two operating groups are Engineered Products and Turbine Technologies. It operates manufacturing facilities on six continents. ESCO provides such services as contract manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain management, as well as specialized services to the aerospace, construction, industrial, mining, power generation, recycling, and transportation markets. Customers include Bucyrus, Caterpillar, and Komatsu. ESCO was founded in Portland, Oregon, by C. F. Swigert in 1913 as an Electric Steel Foundry; its products at that time included trolley car replacement parts.

Kuraki, founded in 1938, has sales and service offices in China, Germany, Japan, Singapore, and the US. Kuraki company makes sales directly and through a network of independent distributors. Textile manufacturer Kurabo Industries owns 49% of Kuraki. Kuraki manufactures machine tools used primarily for metal boring applications. Its products include horizontal boring mills, horizontal milling machines, axis profilers, and other metalworking equipment.

The Dixie Group has evolved into a maker of high-end carpets and rugs, as well as yarns used in manufacturing them. Dixie channels broadloom carpets worldwide to customers in retail and replacement markets, and home and commercial building trades. The company's line bears the Dixie Home, Masland Carpets & Rugs, Fabrica International, and Candlewick Yarn labels. Offered mainly through select retailers, its Dixie Home brand touts stylish, cost-sensitive broadloom flooring. Masland's original design carpets straddle the commercial contract and residential marketplace. Supplying home decorators, Fabrica features luxury carpets and custom rugs.

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