Habasit America company makes power transmission belts and conveyor belts, along with related gears and motors, for material handling equipment in a variety of industries. Habasit America's products move automotive parts, beverages, electronic components, food, packaging, paper and tissue, pharmaceuticals, textiles, tires, tobacco, wood, and other commodities. Its conveyor belts also are used in airport baggage handling systems and supermarket check-out stands. Habasit America's Swiss parent company, Habasit Holding AG, operates globally.

Schweiter Technologies makes various products through a handful of divisions, including SSM Textile Machinery, which makes rewinding, dyeing, and texturing machines for the textile sector; and Ismeca, a manufacturer of machines that assemble, test, inspect, and package solar cells, light-emitting diodes, and other products made by semiconductor companies. Schweiter Technologies company also makes light-weight composite panels used in the construction of wind turbines, boats, and graphic arts displays through its 3A Composites unit. Schweiter sells the bulk of its products to customers in Asia and Europe.

Park Corporation has a division for all seasons. Areas of involvement for the privately held company span manufacture of machinery and components for steel and energy industries, purchase and sale of used industrial machinery and mining equipment, production and sale of integrated steel products, and service of oil refining and power generation operations. Other areas include private aircraft services, convention and trade show services, commercial and industrial real estate development, and fixed-income and private equity investments.

Luxfer Gas Cylinders makes aluminum and composite high-pressure gas cylinders. Its lineup offers compressed natural gas (CNG) for vehicles, CO2 and mixed-gas cylinders for beverages, extinguishers for fire, as well as life-support cylinders for medical and recreational scuba markets, and paintball cylinders for players. Luxfer's manufacturing process uses hydraulic rams to shape aluminum billets into hollow shells, which are closed and threaded. The seamless, lightweight results are ideal for high-pressure storage of gases. Luxfer, part of UK-based Luxfer Holdings, operates plants in the US and UK, France, and China, serving customers in more than 50 countries.

Curtiss-Wright Flow Control knows how to blow off a little steam. A Curtiss-Wright subsidiary, CWFC manufactures a slew of valves (steam relief, butterfly, solenoid), pumps, motors, generators, and related products to manage the pressure and flow of liquids and vapors. Its lineup is used in military/aerospace propulsion systems, equipment for nuclear power plants, refineries, petrochemical and chemical plants, as well as various industrial applications. Curtiss company also offers installation services. CWFC's two dozen-plus businesses include Farris Engineering, Sprague Products, Enertech, Target Rock, and DeltaValve. Farris is one of the world's top makers of pressure-relief valves used in processing industries.

olmen AB can see the forest for the trees. The company's three product-based business segments include Holmen Paper (telephone directory paper, newsprint, office paper, and coated printing paper), Iggesund Paperboard (paperboard for packaging, graphic purposes, book covers, and brochures), and Holmen Timber (sawn timber production and distribution for the woodworking industry). Its two raw materials-oriented businesses include Holmen Skog (timberland management) and Holmen Energi (hydro power assets). Holmen AB company produces over 2.5 million tons of paper products a year. Swedish brokerage firm L E Lundbergfaretagen has a controlling stake in Holmen.

JinkoSolar Holding Company produces all the components to convert sunlight to electricity. It manufactures silicon wafers and uses them to make solar cells, which connect to form solar modules, the basis for solar power generation. Customers can buy any or all of the three components. JinkoSolar uses virgin and reclaimed silicon (about 50/50); it sources recovered material from outside suppliers and sells what it doesn't use. The Chinese company has about 450 customers in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. ReneSola, which accounts for about a third of sales, is controlled by the same family backers behind JinkoSolar, which went public in 2010.

Turkiye Sise ve Cam Fabrikalari, or Sisecam, puts its genius in a bottle. Turkiye Sise ve Cam Fabrikalari A.S. company makes a variety of glass products, including flat glass, glassware, glass packaging, and glass fiber. It also makes sodium and chromium chemicals. Customers for the company's flat-glass segment include major automakers, such as Ford, Toyota, and Hyundai. Its glass packaging is used by a variety of beverage makers, as well as by pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies. Under the mandate of the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Isbank founded Sisecam in 1935. Isbank owns around 64% of Sisecam.

Q.E.P makes and distributes hardwood flooring and flooring installation tools (including trowels, wet saws, and carpet trimmers) for professionals and do-it-yourselfers. It sells more than 3,000 flooring products, mainly for installing marble, carpet, ceramic tile, and drywall, under the QEP, Capitol, ROBERTS, Elastiment, and Tarkett brands, among others. Q.E.P. makes about 25% of its products and acquires the rest from about 200 suppliers. Its customers include retailers and distributors to the home improvement, hardware, and construction trades primarily in the US. The family-run company was founded by chairman and CEO Lewis Gould in 1979.

Founded in 1950 as a maker of wristwatches and camera parts, Star Micronics has grown into a provider of computer printers; visual card reader/writer systems; automatic lathes and other machine tools (generates the most sales); and precision components for communications, automotive, and medical applications. Star Micronics company's micro audio components (including speakers, buzzers, receivers, and microphones) are used by mobile phone manufacturers; they may be used in digital music players or game devices, as well. Star Micronics still makes wristwatch components, though the segment has become a smaller part of overall company revenues.

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