Badger Income Fund serves contractors that really need to dig in. Badger's Daylighting (exposing underground infrastructure to daylight) business, specializes in non-destructive excavating services primarily for petroleum and utility contractors, but also serves the oil and gas pipeline, utility, transportation, industrial, and engineering sectors. Badger designs and manufactures truck mounted pressurized water and vacuum units used to safely expose utility cables and pipelines. The company's main product, the Hydrovac, is used to liquefy topsoil with a jet of water before the sediment is removed with a vacuum and held in a storage tank while work is being done. Canada accounts for over 60% of sales.

China Metal International Holdings (CMI) is the largest metal casting foundry in China. Its customized products include compressor parts for air conditioners and refrigerators; automobile components; and other mechanical parts. CMI also provides molding, machining, and coating services. The company serves Japanese and Korean air compressor and refrigerator compressor manufacturers; automobile parts and component manufacturers; automobile manufacturers; and other industrial manufacturers for water pumps and agricultural equipment. CMI operates two foundries in China -- Tianjin CMT Industry and Suzhou CMS Machinery -- with machining facilities, six molding lines, and one coating line. CMI was founded in 1992.

Tempel Steel Company religiously manufactures magnetic steel laminations used in motors, ballasts, and transformers. The company also produces electrical and cold-rolled motor lamination steel that it sells to manufacturers, subcontractors, and other customers who use it to produce their own laminations. Tempel Steel is owned by the family of Tempel Smith Sr., who founded the company in a garage in 1945. In addition to its US operations, Tempel Steel has manufacturing facilities in Canada, China, India, and Mexico.

Silgan White Cap Americas (formerly Silgan Closures), part of Silgan Holdings' global closures business, concentrates on keeping products in -- and non-products out -- by making metal, plastic, and composite vacuum closures for bottles, cans, and jugs. Typical closure applications include beverages, condiments, pickles, sauces, soups, beer and liquor, vegetables, fruit, baby food, preserves, and dairy products. The unit also provides sealing and capping equipment for use by its customers.

Dart Container is a world cup winner -- not in soccer, but in foam cups and containers. It commands about half of the global market in foam cups! To make its products, Dart touts a secret molding method for expandable polystyrene. The foodservice lineup includes not just cups but lids, dinnerware, and cutlery, which is marketed through a global distribution network to hospitals, schools, and restaurants, as well as retailers. Self-sufficient, Dart builds its own molding machinery, and uses Dart trucks to deliver products from plants in the US, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, the UK, and Australia. Its recycled polystyrene is sold to manufacturers of such durables as insulation and egg cartons. Dart is family-owned.

The Michelin Man may look like a marshmallow, but what he's selling is tires. Behind that fluffy white figure is one of the world's top tire manufacturers, Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin, which produces more than 150 million tires annually for all kinds of vehicles. The majority of its sales are made from supplying replacement tires to the passenger car and truck markets. It is also a world leader in aircraft and earthmover tires. Michelin sells to both consumers and vehicle manufacturers. Included in its stable are brands recognized regionally (Kleber in Europe, Warrior in China) and worldwide (Michelin, BF Goodrich). Compagnie Generale company also publishes about 10 million maps and travel guides per year.

RBC Bearings knows to keep its bearings in line. RBC Bearings makes an array of plain, roller, and ball bearing products. It specializes in regulated bearings needed by OEMs and aftermarkets such as commercial and military aircraft, automobiles and commercial trucks, industrial and agricultural machinery, and other equipment. Tapping US niche markets, its precision lineup has more than 32,800 applications, from engine controls to radar systems, mining tools, and gear pumps. The company's top customers, including Caterpillar, Komatsu America, and the US Department of Defense, account for more than 30% of sales. RBC Bearings has grown since 1919 to 20-plus manufacturing facilities in Europe and North America.

Pacrim International Capital (PICI) is looking to the Pacific Rim for its future. A commercial and residential development heavyweight in Canada since 1990, the firm exited its Nova Scotia and New Brunswick hotel properties to pursue its Far East ambitions -- corrugated paper products and the packaging industry -- particularly in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China (also known as the "World's Factory"). PICI holds 46% stake in Wah Sang Paper Products; it holds an indirect interest in excess of 75% in the corrugated packaging company. PICI keeps its head office in Ontario, Canada, where it is listed on the Toronto stock exchange.

Caterpillar dealership Cashman Equipment sells and rents Caterpillar-brand equipment, engines, power systems, parts, and work tools (bring your own cocoon). It also sells used Caterpillar equipment. The family-owned company serves construction, mining, and logging customers from 10 locations throughout Nevada and in California and Utah. Cashman company's Spectra Lasers, LLC division distributes Trimble grade, site, and laser control systems, as well as software. In 2008 Cashman acquired CPS, LLC, a distributor of Mitsubishi uninterruptible power supplies. Cashman Equipment was founded in 1931 by James "Big Jim" Cashman to provide Cat equipment to crews building Hoover Dam.

Founded in 1926 and still family owned. Heyco Products Inc. offers decades of experience in the design and manufacture of molded wire protection products and stamped electrical components to meet demanding customer application requirements. Our unique, in-house ability to offer customers the latest design and prototyping technology along with years of high volume manufacturing experience is our way of turning challenging "just-in-time" manufacturing deadlines into production realities. We are committed to ground floor project involvement. This practice enables us to completely follow through from design to delivery in order to save customers time and money while ensuring optimal quality of the end product.

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