Koninklijke Nedschroef makes fasteners for the automotive industry (majority of sales) and tools for forming hot and cold steel, also for the automotive industry. The company's trademark Nedshape components are pre-formed to cut down on further machining. Other key products include Nedpoint (self-aligning screws), Nedlite (light aluminum screws), and Nedcore (self-tapping screws). Nedschroef's manufacturing facilities are in Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Denmark; the company also provides logistics and project management. Nedschroef began in 1894 making rivets for ship building.

With CAT-like tread, Empire Southwest has created a heavy equipment sales, rental, and leasing empire in the US Southwest. One of the largest Caterpillar dealerships in the US, Empire Southwest operates through five divisions: hydraulic service, machinery, power systems, precision machining, and transport. Empire company's equipment includes backhoes, compactors, dozers, front shovels, loaders, pipelayers, telehandlers, and tractors. It also handles equipment used for mining and forestry projects. Empire Southwest also carries batteries, power generators, engines, and tools, and has a service department.

Deloro Stellite manufactures high-alloy wear-resistant components and consumables. The company specializes in making components (centrifugal castings, investment castings, resin shell castings, and wrought products), consumables (cast rod, coated electrodes, and tubular wire), and hardfacing equipment (thermal spray coating and welding equipment). Deloro Stellite also provides services such as coating, laser, and machining services. Customers include General Electric, Rolls Royce, Siemens, and Westinghouse. Deloro Stellite was purchased by UK-based private equity firm Duke Street Capital in 2006.

Ibstock Brick has literally helped build Great Britain (and its own bottom line) brick by brick. Ibstock Brick company, which started as Ibstock Collieries in 1899 to quarry clay and mine coal for brick manufacturers, is now the largest brick manufacturer in the UK, ahead of #2 Hanson and #3 Wienerberger. With nearly two dozen brick and paver manufacturing plants located throughout the UK, Ibstock has an annual capacity of more than 900 million bricks -- about 15 per UK resident. Rather than doling it out to the populace, however, its brick is used primarily in residential housing construction. Construction giant CRH plc acquired Ibstock in 1999.

Belden Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets cable, connectivity, and networking products in various markets, including industrial automation, enterprise, transportation, infrastructure, and consumer electronics. Belden company's cable products include copper cables comprising shielded and unshielded twisted pair cables, coaxial cables, and stranded cables; fiber optic cables that transmit light signals through glass or plastic fibers; and composite cables, which are combinations of multi conductor, coaxial, and fiber optic cables jacketed together or otherwise joined together to serve complex applications and provide ease of installation. It also produces and sells connectors primarily for industrial and data networking applications, as well as sells end-to-end structured cabling solutions. In addition, belden company's active connectivity products include industrial ethernet switches and related equipment, fiber optic interfaces and media converters used to bridge fieldbus networks over long distances, and load-moment indicators for mobile cranes and other load-bearing equipment. Further, its wireless products consist of a range of wireless local area network products for use in various markets, including the healthcare, education, and enterprise markets.

Hollygate Fabrications is a manufacturer primarily of structural steel components. Hollygate Fabrications fabricates ducts, fixtures, and aircraft stages for the aerospace industry; turbine base plates and diesel oil sumps for the power generation industry; and alloy stagings and autoclaves. Hollygate Fabrication serves customers in other industries including automotive production and specialized machinery manufacturing. It manufactures its products from its 35,000 sq. ft. facility in Manchester. Hollygate Fabrications' customers include aircraft giant Boeing.

James Cropper plc are specialist paper manufacturers of low volume, high quality uncoated and deep coloured papers. We are paper manufacturers of distinction with all the knowledge, skills and craftsmanship gained in over 160 years of paper manufacturing and the paper supplies industry. As Europe's most modern coloured and specialist paper mill, James Cropper are paper suppliers in custom colours, weights or specifications, to any global destination.A policy of growth, investment and change over the years has enabled the company to remain independent paper manufacturers and become a paper mill pre-eminent in its field - providing a service for the production of coloured and specialist paper and board to a world-wide clientele.Whether specified for corporate literature; bespoke marketing material; high quality stationery, coverings for hardback books; uniquely engineered packaging; framing, display and archive storage; or for a specialised industrial use - the possibilities for this natural medium are boundless.

Valmont Industries has four business segments: Engineered Support Structures (metal poles and other structures for the lighting, traffic, and wireless communications industries), Irrigation (agricultural irrigation equipment sold under the Valley brand), Utility Support Structures (steel and concrete poles and other structures for the utility industry), and Coatings (galvanizing, anodizing, and powder coating services). Other operations include the manufacture of tubular products and industrial fastener distribution. The company sells its products in more than 100 countries, though the US accounts for more than 70% of sales. Founder Robert Daugherty owns about 16% of Valmont.

Cordova Bolt is a distributor of standard and special fasteners and hardware. It distributes fasteners including screws, rivets, nuts, bolts, anchors, pins, and washers. Specific items include expansion anchors, drywall screws, formed and forged fittings, lockwashers, metal building fasteners, special threaded products, socket screw products, and thread rod. Cordova Bolt boasts that it is has more than 15 million pounds of fasteners in stock. President Moses Cordova launched his first nuts-and-bolts distributing firm (Circle Bolt) in 1967. He sold that company in 1972 and founded Cordova Bolt in 1975. The Cordova family owns and manages the company.

Since Dwyer Instruments company was founded in 1931, customers have come to recognize Dwyer Instruments to stand for quality, reliability, and readily available low cost products. As a leading manufacturer in the controls and instrumentation industry, we continue to grow and serve major markets including, but not limited to HVAC, chemical, food, oil and gas, and pollution control. New applications are discovered daily through a cooperative effort between Dwyer and its customers. It has been these relationships with our customers that allow us to continue to develop market demand products and further our success from leading established brand names such as the Magnehelic® pressure gages, Photohelic® switch/gages, Rate Master® flowmeters, and Hi-Flow® valves. In addition to new product development, Dwyer has added to its success through several acquisitions and has achieved additional market recognition. Respected names such as Mercoid Controls, Love Controls, W.E. Anderson and Proximity Controls have created new markets and further build on the solid reputation that Dwyer has and continues to sustain. Our ability to successfully diversify demonstrates Dwyer's managed approach to the marketplace.

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