Tyco Flow Control, a business segment of Tyco International, engineers, manufactures, and installs flow control and heat tracing products for the oil/gas, power, food and beverage, chemical, marine, mining, construction, water, and other process industries. Its lines of business, including Valves & Controls, Water & Environmental Systems, and Thermal Controls, make products under brand names such as Anderson Greenwood, Biffi, Crosby, Keystone, KTM, Raychem, Sempell, Tracer, and Vanessa. Tyco Flow Control has manufacturing facilities, warehouses, and distribution centers throughout North and South America, Europe, and the Asia/Pacific region.

Disc Graphics, Inc. company makes and prints paperboard-based packaging for home entertainment, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and related consumer goods markets. Its capabilities tap commercial printing to folding cartons, mini-flute corrugate, and foil stamping. Although Disc Graphics' name goes back to the 1970s in producing labels for vinyl records, Disc Graphics company today specializes in packaging for food and beverage to sporting goods, publishing for audio books, and vitamins. It touts sustainable practices including an eco-design packaging program and non-cellulose based (tree-free) paper. Chairman and CEO Donald Sinkin and private equity firm Main Street Resources hold majority stakes.

Sappi Fine Paper, as evidenced by its passion for the paper business, has the wherewithal to be every bit as sappy as its magazine, book, and catalog customers. The coated fine paper producer touts a production capacity of 1.3 million tons of paper a year. Coated specialty and uncoated fine papers are also made. It stakes industry and sustainable firsts, under multiple brands, including the mill branded LOE (Lustro Offset Environmental) paper, the first premium sheet to use 30% post-consumer waste content. A coated paper, Tempo, courts the volume and color production demands of the digital age. Since 1994 Sappi Fine Paper North America has operated as a subsidiary of Johannesburg, South Africa, Sappi Limited

Nestor Sales is as a national warehouse distributor to niche manufacturing markets. Its operations comprise three independent units: Ace Tool, AIM Supply, and a Government Sales division. Ace Tool provides tools, equipment, and supplies to automotive accounts; in addition to OEMs, customers include mobile tool jobbers and parts stores. AIM Supply sells tools and maintenance, repair, and overhaul supplies to marine, manufacturers, and fleet service companies. Government Sales supplies vehicular equipment components and services to federal agencies, including the Department of Defense. Investment firm Carousel Capital owns Nestor.

Thermadyne makes gas (oxy-fuel) and electric arc cutting and welding products for customers in the aerospace, automotive, construction, metal fabrication, mining, petroleum, and shipbuilding industries. Thermadyne's products include automatic welding equipment, cutting and welding torches, plasma power supplies, engine-driven welders, welding wires, and plasma cutting systems. Its brands include Cigweld, Firepower, Thermal Dynamics, Tweco, Victor, and Weldskill. Although Thermadyne has operations around the globe, the US accounts for over 50% of sales.

K-Tool Corporation distributes hand tools, power tools, industrial equipment, and other professional products made by more than 250 manufacturers to more than 3,000 auto parts stores, government agencies, hardware stores, industrial distributors, and tool distributors. Customers may order by phone or through the company's Web sites. In addition K-Tool offers repairs and provides spare parts. The company also makes hand tools, power tools, and professional equipment through its K-Tool International division. K-Tool's Preferred Tool & Equipment division sells exclusively to jobbers, warehouses and distributors. K-Tool was founded in 1981 by Edward Kay.

Volvo Construction Equipment North America (Volvo CE) markets a broad lineup of construction equipment, including backhoes, compact excavators, wheel loaders, and motor graders. The company pushes products through a global dealer network and through Volvo Rents, a chain of franchised rental businesses offering small to midsized construction equipment and tools. Dealers and rentals cater to construction, commercial, industrial, and homeowner use. Volvo CE operates out of North Carolina, where it has set up a technical training and product demonstration center, and Ontario.

The Zignago Vetro Group produces hollow glass containers primarily for Food and Beverage, Cosmetics and Perfumery, Luxury Perfumery and Specialty Glass containers markets. It is active throughout the world with a "business-to-business" model through three Business Units: Zignago Vetro S.p.A., Verreries Brosse S.a.s., and Vetri Speciali S.p.A. (a 43.50% shareholding). Production is carried out in facilities located in Italy and in France

Kreider Corporation was established in 1952 as a sheet metal shop, and today has grown to a dynamic metal stamping and four-slide house with value added capabilities in assembly, welding, tool making, product and tool design.

Shinsho manufactures and sells a diversified line of metal products. Steel products and materials (iron ore) account for most of Shinsho's sales. The company makes auto parts, metallurgy manufacturing equipment, and welding materials. In addition to steel-based products, Shinsho manufactures nonferrous metal products, such as aluminum sheet, leadframes, aluminum photoconductor drums, and copper sheet and strip. The company, founded in 1946, sells primarily to customers in Japan. Kobe Steel, one of Japan's largest steel producers, is a top customer and owns about 35% of Shinsho.

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