Spear & Jackson Garden Products wants its customers to get their hands dirty. Spear & Jackson manufactures and distributes lawn and gardening hand tools, agricultural instruments, and woodworking implements. Products are marketed worldwide under such brands as Spear & Jackson, Robert Sorby, and Forges de Lavieu. The company's operations are located throughout the UK, France, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and China. Spear & Jackson Garden Products, along with manufacturing firm Neill Tools, is part of the tool division of Hong Kong-based holding company United Pacific Industries (UPI).

Giti, a global tire manufacturer, operates from 7 strategically located manufacturing plants in China. Adopting a multi-brand strategy, Giti offers a complete range of quality tires and exports to over 100 countries worldwide with North America and Europe as the key export markets.Ranked as one of the leading tire manufacturer in China and the 14th largest globally in terms of sales revenue, Giti attributes its success to fair business practice and willingness to invest in people, research & development and manufacturing technology.Giti is also fully aware of its corporate citizen role and will continue to contribute and support social and environmental improvement programs.

Ajax Metal Processing is cleaning up the market when it comes to hardening and protecting small metal parts, such as nuts and bolts, primarily for customers in the automobile manufacturing industry. Services include heat treating, plating, adhesive and sealant application, annealing, cleaning, and coating. The company's wire rod annealing and pickling equipment includes four surface combustion batch-type furnaces with a total annealing capacity of 130 tons per day, and a continuous eight-zone furnace with an annealing capacity of 100 tons per day. Ajax Metal Processing operates two plants in Michigan and one in Indiana.

Vatana Phaisal Engineering fabricates and installs sheet metal, structural steel, storage tanks, and industrial piping. It manufactures boilers and water tanks, and also provides plant shutdown and steam boiler repair services. It provides materials and services to chemical plants, power plants, refineries, and other industrial facilities in Thailand. Customers have included various divisions of Alstom, ABB, Foster Wheeler, and Mitsubishi. Vatana Phaisal Engineering operates from three fabrication plants --Samrong, Bangplee, and Khao Hinsorn -- located near Bangkok, and a services workshop in Nongbon. The company, founded in 1961, is part of the Vatana Phaisal group of industrial and engineering companies.

MiTek Industries makes a lot of those building components. MiTek Industries company manufactures metal connector plates and bracing, as well as machinery for making structural trusses, wall paneling, and related components for the construction industry. MiTek, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, also provides design, engineering, and job summary software. It maintains operations in more than 20 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and America.

Behlen makes metal livestock equipment, pallets, grain storage bins and silos, as well as metal buildings, and trailers. Over the past 20 years, Behlen Country, the company's livestock equipment unit has acquired farm gate maker Farmaster, cattle handling equipment makers Big Valley and Universal Mfg., and storage tank provider Agri-Engineering, to become the industry's largest livestock equipment manufacturer. Behlen Building Systems focuses on making products for the agricultural building market, while Behlen's International Ag Systems unit makes silos and other grain storage structures. BMC Transportation maker truck trailers.

Amtek Engineering designs and manufactures precision toolings, as well as metal stampings of parts and casings for appliances, automotive parts, computers, consumer electronics, mass storage, and telecommunications equipment. The company's other services include industrial design, decorative metal finishing, and plastic and rubber injection molding. China and Singapore account for approximately 75% of sales. Amtek's primary subsidiaries are located in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. Amtek Engineering has manufacturing facilities in China, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

ATI Wah Chang (formerly Wah Chang, which in part means "great development") creates specialty metals and chemicals. Wah Chang principally makes zirconium mill products, as well as other corrosion-resistant specialty metals such as hafnium, niobium, titanium, and vanadium. The company's products are used in industries including aerospace, chemical processing, energy production, medical, and consumer goods. It also provides laboratory services for metal testing and analysis. Its Ti Wire division makes titanium bar and wire products, while business unit Midwest Laboratory performs radiological monitoring. The company, now a subsidiary of Allegheny Technologies, dates back to a trading company founded in 1916.

Kesla was established in 1960. Kesla manufactures equipment for the forestry industry. Among its products are log loaders, forest trailers, harvester heads, chippers, stroke delimbers, and access platforms. Brand names include Patu, Foresteri, Scanlift, and Patu Lift. Kesla also sells used equipment. The Finnish company operates four factories in Joensuu, Keselahti, Ilomantsi, and Tohmajervi, and exports its products to more than 30 different countries.

Charter International plc, through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and supply of welding consumables and equipment, and cutting and automation solutions. It formulates, develops, manufactures, and supplies welding consumable products and equipment for use in cutting and joining steels, aluminum, and metal alloys. Charter International company's welding consumables include electrodes, cored and solid wires, and fluxes; and welding equipment ranges from small retail uses to large plant in the energy and shipbuilding sectors. These products are used in the oil and gas, and electricity generation and transmission, infrastructure construction, shipyards, and transport industries. The company also designs, manufactures, installs, and services centrifugal and axial fans, air and gas rotary heat exchangers, compressors, and related products for use in the power, oil and gas, petrochemical, mining, iron and steel, cement, wastewater, and other process industries, such as pulp and paper, smelting, and sulphuric acid industries.

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