Kennametal offers a host of metal-cutting tools and tooling systems for machining steel, equipment for mining and highway construction, and engineering services for production processes, across two business divisions: Metalworking Solutions and Services, and Advanced Materials Solutions. Its multi-trademark lineup includes cutting, milling, and drilling tools used in metalworking; drums, bits, and accessories used in mining; and bits, grader blades, and snowplow blades used in construction. Kennametal and its subsidiaries sell products and services worldwide, directly and through a distributor network. More than half of sales come from outside of North America.

Kaman Industrial Technologies (KIT) can help you get your bearings. As the industrial distribution arm of Kaman Corp., the company touts high-efficiency hybrid bearings, energy sipping motors, as well as biodegradable lubricants and process-optimizing condition-monitoring devices. The short list includes power transmissions, material handling equipment, motion control systems, and other electrical parts. KIT stocks more than three million items by brands such as Baldor Electric, Rockwell Automation, and Sumitomo. Serving some 50,000 customers in North America, KIT offers programs on energy audits, predictive maintenance, and OEM parts conversion. Its geographic footprint is growing through acquisitions.

Jervis B. Webb Company is a global leader in providing durable material handling systems including Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs), conveyors, baggage handling systems and Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS). Webb systems are the centerpiece of thousands of manufacturing plants, warehouses, and airports. Webb is a subsidiary of Daifuku Co., Ltd., making it part of one of the largest material handling companies in the world.

Founded in 1985, Retrotech specializes in automated pallet handling systems. It provides consulting, maintenance, system design, and technical support services. Retrotech is an engineering firm that designs, makes, installs, and modernizes stand-alone and integrated automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) for distribution centers, plants, and warehouses. Its products include automated guided vehicles, automated racking equipment, overhead cranes and hoists, stacker cranes, and warehouse management software. Retrotech owns Woodson Company, a food and beverage AS/RS software and services provider. Customers include Proctor & Gamble and Cargill Meats.

Culp, Inc is one of the world's largest makers of furniture upholstery fabrics and mattress fabrics (known as ticking). Its upholstery fabrics include wovens (jacquards and dobbies), knits, screen-prints, and velvets (woven and tufted). Its fabrics are used in upholstering residential and commercial furniture such as recliners, sofas, and love seats. Its ticking is used for covering mattresses and box springs. Major customers include furniture makers Bassett, Furniture Brands International, and La-Z-Boy (12% of sales), and mattress makers Sealy and Serta. US customers account for about 80% of sales. Culp has eight manufacturing plants in the US, Canada, and China.

Heidelberg Asia helps printing and publishing companies meet their deadlines. Heidelberg Asia company provides a variety of products and services for all stages of the printing process. Heidelberg Asia's product line includes printing presses, plate imaging devices, finishing equipment, and software components. It also offers spare parts and used equipment, as well as training programs through its Print Media Academy. Heidelberg Asia company is part of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, which serves customers in more than 150 countries around the globe through its network of sales, service, and marketing specialists.

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.

J.A. Reinhardt manufactures precision aluminum dip-brazed housings, which are built especially for the aerospace and telecommunications industries. The company also makes aluminum beryllium fabricated products. Other products include air and liquid cooling avionics housings, dip-brazed electronic chassis, and microwave antennas and transmitters. The company's processes include aluminum dip brazing, aluminum beryllium and beryllium machining and fabrication, and electromechanical assembly. A family-owned company for more than 60 years, J.A. Reinhardt was acquired in 2009 by Arlington Capital Partners, which combined the company with thermal management specialist TSI Group.

J&J Industries boasts one of the largest privately held mills in the industry for manufacturing commercial carpeting. Used in business, institutional, and industrial spaces, the J&J lineup comprises broadloom and modular carpet, backing systems, and adhesives. Products are made and marketed under two brands, J&J Commercial (back office interiors), and Invision Carpet Systems (high design offerings). J&J also provides installation and used carpeting recovery services. Started in 1957, the company is named after its founders' surnames -- Jolly and Jones. David Jolly, grandson of co-founder J. Rollins Jolly, serves as president and COO.

Leeds Group is now a small collection of subsidiary companies. Its Hemmers-Itex Textil Import Export subsidiary distributes cloth for apparel and home furnishings across Europe. The company withdrew from textile manufacturing, its traditional business, as the industry began to contract in Europe and move to emerging markets. It is now primarily focused on the import and sale of Asian fabrics in Europe. Today it sells about 35 million linear feet of fabric per year. Johan Claesson and UK entrepreneur Peter Gyllenhammer are major shareholders of Leeds Group.

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