Mr. Thorpe's grandfather, Frederick William (F.W.), founded the business in 1936. F. W. Thorpe knows how many engineers it takes to design a light bulb. F. W. Thorpe company designs, manufactures, and supplies professional lighting systems for customers around the globe. Its Thorlux subsidiary focuses on industrial lighting; other units include Sugg Lighting (decorative lighting), Mackwell Electronics (emergency lighting), Compact Lighting (retail space lighting), and Philip Payne (emergency exit signage).

American Electric Technologies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, primarily offers power distribution, control, and drive systems for drilling, marine, and industrial applications. It operates through three segments: Technical Products and Services (TP&S), Electrical and Instrumentation Construction (E&I), and American Access (AAT). The TP&S segment develops, manufactures, markets, and provides low and medium voltage switchgears, generator control and distribution switchgears, motor control centers, powerhouses, bus ducts, variable frequency AC drives, variable speed DC drives, program logic control based automation systems, human machine interface, and specialty panels; and provides services, such as electrical equipment retrofits, upgrades, startups, testing and troubleshooting of substations, switchgear, drives, and control systems. The E&I segment provides electrical and instrumentation construction and installation services to land and marine based markets of oil and gas, water and wastewater facilities, and other commercial and industrial markets; and services include electrical and instrumentation turnarounds, maintenance, renovation, and new construction.

Couplings Company's products do help customers make the right connections with brass and nylon pipes, valves, and fittings. The company's products include a wide range of brass fittings made for air brakes, poly tubing, compressors, pipes, and garden hoses; as well as ball, needle, and shut-off valves; air and drain cocks; and copper, plastic, and rubber tubing. Other items include automotive brake lines, brass flare fittings, poly tubing, grease fittings, hose barb fittings, inverted flare automotive fittings, and radiant heater fittings.

Marubeni-Komatsu Ltd company, a unit of the huge Japan-based trading company Marubeni Corporation, is the sole official UK distributor of Komatsu industrial machinery. Marubeni-Komatsu company sells a full range of Komatsu earth-moving equipment, including backhoes, bulldozers, excavators, mobile crushers, trash compactors, dump trucks, and loaders. Marubeni-Komatsu company also offers financing and maintenance services. Marubeni-Komatsu sells new and used equipment from offices throughout the UK.

Westport formed a joint venture with Weichai Power Co., Ltd., China's largest heavy duty engine manufacturer, and Hong Kong Peterson (CNG) Equipment Limited in 2008. The new entity, Weichai Westport Inc. (WWI), will develop, manufacture, market, and sell advanced, alternative fuel engines incorporating Westport technology (and relevant parts and kits) for use in automobiles, heavy duty trucks, power generation and shipping applications.In 1999, Westport and Cummins Inc. of Columbus, Indiana entered into a memorandum of understanding to explore the development of HPDI technology for Cummins flagship heavy-duty truck engine, the 15-litre ISX.

Emin Leydier's operations include Emin Leydier Paper Mills (paper for corrugated material), Emin Leydier Packaging (recycled corrugated cardboard for packing), and Emin Leydier Services (packaging services). Its elytra segment also acts as a strategic unit used to manufacture corrugated packaging for food products. Emin Leydier produces about 180,000 tons of corrugated cardboard annually. Forged in the merger of two firms belonging to Pierre Emin and Paul Leydier in 1975, the family-owned business owns subsidiaries in France, Spain, Italy, and the UK.

Consider flexible packaging and specialty papers maker Packaging Dynamics. Its BagcraftPapercon unit converts paper, film, and foil into food packaging such as bags and wraps, butcher and freezer paper, pan liners, and tissue. International Converter produces adhesive and film extrusion lamination materials for making decorative cartons, bags, cans, and goods for consumer, medical, and industrial purposes. Thilmany Papers makes specialty lightweight papers for a diversity of packaging, pressure sensitive, and industrial uses from sandwich wraps and microwave popcorn bags to baggage tags and tapes. Packaging Dynamics is a portfolio company of Kohlberg & Company.

Acertec Limited (formerly Acertec plc) produces large body parts for car manufacturers, and provides engineering services to the mining and construction industries. Acertec's two divisions include: Stadco (automotive stampings/assemblies) and Acertec Construction Products (formerly BRC; engineering services for mining, civil engineering, building, security industries). In addition to the UK, Acertec has operations in Germany, East Asia, and Russia. Customers include Bentley, Jaguar, Landrover, Aston Martin, BMW, and Ford. Candover Investments owns more than 20% of the company. Acertec delisted its stock and became a private company in 2009.

Swift Galey designs, manufactures, and distributes decorative and workwear textiles for healthcare, hospitality, and institutional use. Healthcare products include bedding, surgical gowns, and incontinence care. Its hospitality goods tie in custom towels, performance blankets, and woven sheeting. Its workwear line offers coveralls to sport jackets. Bedspreads, flame-resistant drapery, and window treatments are part of its decorative mix. The company manages its own R&D, manufacturing, distribution as well as pushes linen management, and technical services. The privately held company is led by its founder's grandson, Gary Heiman.

Founded in 1883 as a bottling company, the Slingsby family continues to play a role in the company's operations through ownership stakes and managerial roles. H.C. Slingsby p.l.c. company manufactures and distributes a wide range of equipment and fixtures with commercial and industrial applications. Slingsby offers its more than 35,000 products by catalog or through its Web site, selling hand trucks, lockers, storage bins, time clocks, and a variety of other safety, security, and storage equipment.

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