Marmon monitors a melange of more than 130 autonomous manufacturing and service companies. A subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, Marmon's 11 manufacturing units make automotive components and trailers, food service equipment, wire and cable, industrial materials and components, consumer products, transportation equipment, building products, water-treatment products, and more. Services include marketing and distribution. Marmon is an international association of companies that operates about 250 facilities in more than 40 countries. Chicago's Pritzker family (owners of the Hyatt hotel chain) sold a 60% stake in Marmon to Berkshire Hathaway for $4.5 billion in 2008.

DS Smith is the UK's #1 producer of paper and corrugated packaging products. The company's lineup includes conventional cardboard packaging used to ship fresh produce, prepared foods, and other consumer goods; decorative packaging for point-of-sale displays; and heavy-duty corrugated boxes used to transport heavy or fragile products. Subsidiaries DS Smith Packaging, DS Smith Kaysersberg, and St. Regis Paper drive operations from more than 50 plants across Europe. Distribution of office products is run through its Spicers subsidiary. Subsidiary DS Smith Plastics makes plastic products required for liquid packaging and dispensing, and other applications.

The Pape Group, Inc. company distributes, leases, and sells construction, material handling, and forestry machinery, as well as heavy-duty trucks; it services corporate aircraft, as well. The Pape Group is the holding company for Bobcat West, Ditch Witch Northwest, Engineered Products, Flightcraft, Pape Kenworth, Pape Machinery, Pape Material Handling, and Pape Rents. The group sells branded equipment under names such as Bobcat, Hyster, John Deere, Hitachi, and PACCAR's Kenworth. The Pape Group serves customers through locations in Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.

ELE Advanced Technologies is a leading UK manufacturer of highly engineered, precision components for the aerospace, gas turbine, and automotive industries. Products include turbine blades, nozzle guide vanes, compressor blades, variable guide vanes, heat shields, and combustor linings for aerospace and industrial gas turbine use, as well as turbocharger components and turbine housings for automobiles. ELE also makes inflation adjusters and valves for the aircraft. Customers include Rolls-Royce, Alstom, Fiat, Raytheon, and Fuji Heavy Industries.

For nearly 50 years, Anomatic has served as a well diversified manufacturer of anodized aluminum packaging to the cosmetic, health & beauty, medical device, automotive and spirits packaging industries worldwide. Our proprietary anodizing system has the capability of producing over 2.5 billion units in more than 500 custom colors annually. Value added services offered are embossing, debossing, screen printing, laser engraving and double anodizing. Anomatic offers semi and fully automated assembly for metal to metal, metal to plastic and metal to cork applications.

Guardian Industries, one of the world's largest glassmakers. With more than 60 facilities on five continents, Guardian primarily produces float glass and fabricated glass products for the automobile and construction markets. It also makes architectural glass (mirrors), fiberglass, and automotive trim parts. Through its Guardian Building Products, Guardian Industries Corp. company operates one of largest building supply distribution centers in North America. Former president and CEO William Davidson took Guardian Industries public in 1968, buying it back in 1985. Ownership of the privately held company remains with the Davidson family.

Siam Steel Syndicate produces steel products for use in a variety of industries. Its menu of offerings includes round and deformed bars, steel wire rods, rectangular and square tubes, and round pipes. An affiliate of Italian-Thai Development, Siam Steel Syndicate was established in 1984 and has since become a leading producer of steel products in Thailand. In recent years the company has allied with other domestic steel products heavyweights -- including Millennium Steel, Bangkok Iron Steel Works, and Nova Steel in an effort to supply additional steel products to offset skyrocketing prices.

T.F. & J.H. Braime makes material handling components including elevator components, conveyor and elevator chains (forged chain and round link), elevator buckets, and related items. T.F. & J.H. Braime (Holdings) P.L.C. company also custom designs elevators and conveyors for customers. 4B Components is the name under which T.F. & J.H. Braime operates. In addition to serving customers in and around its UK base, T.F. & J.H. Braime (Holdings) P.L.C. company has operations in Asia, Brazil, France, Germany, and the US. T.F. & J.H. Braime (Holdings) P.L.C. company was founded in 1888 manufacturing seamless steel pressings. It began making elevator components in 1971.

Steelscape makes cold rolled, metallic coated, and custom painted steel coils for the construction industry. Customers can place orders for bare, painted, passivated, oiled or resin coated steel coil in a variety of thicknesses, widths, grades, and coating weights. Founded in 1991, Steelscape was acquired by Ternium Mexico (formerly Grupo IMSA) in 2000. In 2007 Ternium Mexico's parent, Ternium, agreed to sell IMSA Steel, of which Steelscape is a part, to Australia's largest steel concern BlueScope Steel. The transaction, which also includes IMSA STEEL assets Varco Pruden Buildings, Metl-Span, and ASC Profiles, is valued at about $730 million and closed in 2008.

German and Italian, GILDEMEISTER Italiana is a specialist maker of multi-spindle automatic lathes. GILDEMEISTER company also makes universal lathes, computer numerical control Swiss-type lathes, and other machine tools and accessories. It sells itself as being expert in "straight turning" technology, in which the length of the turned parts are quite a bit larger than the diameter. GILDEMEISTER Italiana has production facilities in Brembate di Sopra, Castelleone, and Tortona, Italy. Along with parent company GILDEMEISTER AG, the group aims to dominate the global lathe market.

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