Since 1969 when founder John L. Grove invented the first self-propelled boom lift, the company has been providing such products as aerial work platforms, telescopic material handlers, stock pickers (to access high shelving), and power deck trailers for ground-level loading of everything from heavy construction equipment to vending machines. Products are sold under such names as JLG, SkyTrak, Lull, and Triple-L. JLG Industries company supplies customers in the commercial, industrial, institutional, and government and military markets. JLG is owned by Oshkosh Corp. (formerly Oshkosh Truck).

Whitesell sells its engineered fasteners, wire forms, and cold-formed metal components to durable products makers around the world. Typically, midsized to large OEMs, including almost every major automotive company, buy its components; among them are General Motors, Nissan, and Toyota. Its cold-rolled and cold-forged steel parts are used in applications where strength and precision are critical. Other components it makes include rubber parts, plastic moldings, tapes, brakes, wheels, clamps, stampings, and filter bottles. Privately held Whitesell has more than 25 manufacturing and distribution facilities throughout North America and Asia.

Exide Technologies, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and supply of lead acid batteries for transportation and industrial applications in the Americas, Europe, and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Transportation and Industrial Energy. The Transportation segment offers batteries, including ignition and lighting batteries for cars, trucks, off-road vehicles, agricultural and construction vehicles, motorcycles, recreational vehicles, marine, and other applications. It offers batteries for the transportation market under the Centra, DETA, Exide, Exide Extreme, Exide NASCAR Select, Orbital, Fulmen, and Tudor brands, as well as other private labels brands. The Industrial Energy segment offers batteries for motive power and network power applications, as well as offers a range of battery chargers and related equipment for the operation and maintenance of battery-powered vehicles. Its motive power batteries are used in the material handling industry for electric forklift trucks, as well as in other industries, including floor cleaning machinery, powered wheelchairs, railroad locomotives, mining, and the electric road vehicles market.

Originally founded in 1918 as Densen Works to manufacture wires, cables and copper products on the premises of Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Cable became an independent spin-off of Hitachi in 1956. Since then, it has played a pivotal role within the Hitachi Group as a manufacturer of electric wires and cables-components essential for ensuring a stable power supply, as well as reliable equipment for the information and communications industry-while striving to develop and refine the new communication and transmission technologies demanded by the information and energy sectors.Today, Hitachi Cable offers a wide range of products and services, including products ranging from electric wires, cables, and copper products to electronic materials, automobile parts, and even information network devices and system integration solutions. Its long continued expansion of operations internationally has given Hitachi Cable production and sales bases in 44 locations around the world, with the concomitant capacity to support client operations from a truly global perspective.

Groupe Guillin has food all wrapped up. Each year Groupe Guillin S.A. company makes more than two billion off-the-shelf packaging items for food products such as baked goods, produce, meats, and microwaveable meals. Groupe Guillin and subsidiaries Alphaform, Dynaplast, Guillin Emballages, and Nespak manufacture different types of plastic in various shapes and colors to produce plastic film and sheets, containers, trays, and disposable tableware. Groupe Guillin S.A. company sells its products in Europe to food distributors, grocery stores, fruit and vegetable packers and producers, and caterers. Chairman and CEO Francois Guillin started Groupe Guillin S.A. company in 1972 and took it public in 1989; the Guillin family still owns most of Groupe Guillin S.A. company.

As the frontrunner of the new forest industry, UPM leads the integration of bio and forest industries into a new, sustainable and innovation-driven future. Our products are made of renewable raw materials and are recyclable. UPM comprises of three Business Groups: Energy and pulp, Paper, and Engineered materials. In 2009, UPM's sales totalled € 7.7 billion. UPM has production plants in 15 countries and it employs approximately 23,000 people worldwide. UPM shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki stock exchange.

InterfaceFLOR is flooring its customers with carpet tile. InterfaceFLOR is the largest modular carpet maker in the world, offering "free-lay" carpet to businesses, government and education entities, retailers, and hospitals. Its sister company, FLOR, offers a residential do-it-yourself carpet line sold throughout the US at Lowe's, Design Within Reach, and some 160-plus specialty retailers. The company's flooring systems consist of carpet tiles cut in squares or rectangles and laid to resemble traditional carpet. Interface chairman Ray Anderson brought modular carpet to the US from Europe in 1973 when he founded predecessor company Carpets International.

Komatsu America Corp. company, a subsidiary of Japanese construction equipment giant Komatsu (#2 worldwide after Caterpillar), manufactures, sells, and maintains earthmoving machinery for the North American construction and mining markets. Komatsu America divides its operations into utility equipment (compact construction equipment) and mining systems. Its products include dump trucks, backhoes, crushers, graders, hydraulic excavators, crawler carriers, wheel loaders, bulldozers, and a computer-based mine management system. Komatsu America Corp. company also provides financing, and rents and sells equipment through its sales subsidiaries and distributors.

Founded in 1961, AIS Construction Equipment Corporation sells both used and new construction equipment, including back hoes, dozers, forklifts, wheel loaders, excavators, graders, skidsteers, and tractors made by such manufacturers as CNH, Caterpillar, Deere, and JCB. AIS Construction Equipment Corporation company, which operates throughout Michigan, also sells new and used parts and provides maintenance, rental and financing services, and training classes. AIS also provides on site diagnostic and repair and custom paint and decal services.

Porter-Cable tools are picked up by handymen and women, professional woodworkers and construction workers, and electricians and plumbers. The company manufactures electric tools (tabletop saws, bench top planers, and radial drill presses), cordless tools (drills and drivers, and combo kits), air tools (hammers, wrenches, nailers, and spray guns), and related accessories. In 2000 Porter-Cable merged with sister company Delta Machinery. Black & Decker, which later merged with The Stanley Works to become Stanley Black & Decker, scored Porter-Cable from Pentair in 2005.

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