ORX manufactures and repairs all types of railroad axles, gear units, trucks, and wheel sets. The company also provides a wide range of wheel shop services, including freight car wheel set repair, locomotive U-tube assembly, and the manufacture of new axles for all types of rail vehicles. Among its other jobs, ORX acts as a subcontractor that refurbishes Amtrak's Acela locomotive wheel sets under a maintenance subcontract. (Maintenance of Amtrak's Acela trains is the responsibility of Bombardier Inc. and Alstom, the consortium that built the train).

Grupo IUSA does, but what Grupo IUSA does not do. Mexico's largest industrial conglomerate, the Peralta-family-owned venture has its arms in more than a dozen different industries throughout the country. IUSA is primarily a manufacturer of products and equipment used in the industrial and construction markets. It is a leading world producer of copper pipes and a maker of electrical connectors, gas and water heaters, circuit breakers, footwear, and apparel and accessories, to name a few. IUSA is also active in residential real estate development, stock breeding, wireless telecommunications services; it owns medical clinics, primary schools, and a baseball team.

Plastic Suppliers is in the film industry, but you probably won't find a Cecil B. DeMille or a Robert Rodriguez wanna-be there. Plastic Suppliers, Inc. company manufactures and distributes a variety of plastic films, including coatable, printable, shrink label, packaging, and folding carton. Plastic Suppliers' slitting capabilities can handle widths from one-quarter of an inch to 80 inches. Plastic Suppliers, Inc. company operates two manufacturing plants in Ohio; it also owns regional distribution facilities throughout the US, as well as in Europe. Its specialty films subsidiary, Sidaplax, operates in Belgium.

CIC Group is not new to the weight of family values. The employee-owned holding company manages a diversified mix of manufacturing and construction businesses. CIC's Nooter Corp. specializes in engineering and construction services for equipment in a myriad of industries, from refining to utilities, food, and paper. Operations include Nooter Construction, Wyatt Field Service, RMF Nooter, and Pressline Service Inc., which offers printing press repair. Among CIC's other concerns, St. Louis Metallizing provides thermal spray services to apply metal and ceramic coatings to parts, and Megamet Solid Metals manufactures injection molds. CIC's Superior Corporate Travel offers services for corporate and personal trips.

The 50/50 joint venture combines Cooper's Tool segment with certain tool businesses of Danaher's Tools and Components segment. Through its own business segments, Apex Tool Group manufactures hand tools, power tools, and professional electronic tools for use in both commercial and do-it-yourself applications. Offering more than 30 brand names -- including Crescent, GearWrench, Armstrong, and Weller -- Apex serves 30 countries. Its products are sold through distributors and supply houses to customers in the automotive, aerospace, construction, electronics, and manufacturing and assembly sectors.

Commercial Steel Treating likes to give commerce a treat by processing steel. Operating one of the largest metal processing plants in the US, Commercial Steel Treating offers a wide array of heat treating and metal finishing services to the automotive, aeronautical and manufacturing industries. Its capabilities include continuous and batch hardening, salt bath nitriding and gas nitriding, among others. Curtis Metal Finishing, a subsidiary, operates three processing plants, which provide electrodeposition, dip-spin painting, and phosphating to enhance corrosion protection on automotive and other fasteners.

Sun Hydraulics Corporation and its subsidiaries engage in the design, manufacture, and sale of screw-in hydraulic cartridge valves, manifolds, and integrated packages used in hydraulic systems. Its products include screw-in hydraulic cartridge valves comprising electrically actuated and non-electrically actuated products; manifolds that are machined to create threaded cavities and channels; and integrated packages consisting of multiple cartridges assembled into a custom designed manifold. Sun Hydraulics Corporation's products are used by various capital goods equipment manufacturers to control force, speed, and motion in construction, agricultural, mining, fire and rescue, and other utility equipment, as well as in a range of industrial applications, such as automation machinery, presses, injection molding equipment, and machine tools. Sun Hydraulics Corporation sells its products worldwide, primarily through independent fluid power distributors. It operates in the United States, England, Germany, France, Korea, China, and India.

Greenwood Mills manufactures specialty fabrics for the apparel, home furnishings, and military markets. Greenwood Mills also produces garments, including jeans and other denim products, for retailers such as Levi Strauss and Abercrombie & Fitch through its SingleSource Apparel denim operations in Mexico. Greenwood Mills operates two plants in South Carolina. Through affiliated units, the company operates golf course, resort, and real estate developments. Founded in 1888 by James Self, Greenwood Mills is still owned and operated by the Self family.

Congoleum Corporation is one of the nation's leading manufacturers of sheet and tile flooring. Based in Mercerville, New Jersey, Congoleum's origins extend back more than 100 years. Congoleum resilient flooring products are designed and manufactured in Trenton, NJ; Marcus Hook, PA; and Cedarhurst, MD.Congoleum products are available through your local flooring store and major home centers throughout the United States and Canada.

Ford Meter Box, manufactures waterworks brass valves and fittings, water meter setting equipment, water meter testing equipment, and products for pipeline maintenance and restraint. Its products include adapter flanges, casing spacers, couplings, copperhorns, restraints for ductile iron pipe and PVC pipe, lid covers, and of course, meter boxes. The company sells internationally through its export division; sales in the US are handled by distributors. During the 1960s Ford Meter Box introduced the ball valve, an industry first. In the1980s the company was also an industry pioneer with its introduction of check valves as part of meter settings.

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