YKK Europe designs, develops, and manufactures a range of fasteners that includes zippers, snap fasteners and buttons, and textile and plastic parts. Its zippers are used in a variety of applications and can be made airtight, flame resistant, lightweight, heavy duty, transparent, or waterproof. The company is the hub of Tokyo-based YKK Corporation's Fastening Products Group's operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. YKK Europe does business from offices and facilities in about 40 countries.

Material Sciences Corporation was founded in 1971. Material Sciences Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of material-based solutions for acoustical and coated applications. It offers acoustical material-based solutions, which include multilayer composites consisting of metals, polymeric coatings, and other materials used to manage noise and vibration, and used for disc brake noise dampers, automotive body panels, and engine parts. The company also provides coated metal material-based solutions, which include coil coated, and electrogalvanized protective and decorative coatings applied to coils of metal for automotive fuel tanks, automotive body skins, metal building skins, appliance cabinets, heating and ventilation, lighting, and furniture and fixtures applications. In addition, it laminates, coats, and electrogalvanizes various types of metals.

High Country Fusion Company (HCFC) makes its path to success through its pipes. HCFC manufactures high-density polyethylene pipes (HDPE) and pipe fittings for use in industrial, marine, municipal, wastewater, and other types of projects. The company's HDPE pipes (in essence, dense plastic-based pipes) are capable of transporting water and wastewater, chemicals, compressed gases, and other substances. HCFC's customers include municipal and government agencies, as well as US and international construction companies. Based in a small town in Idaho, High Country Fusion company operates a 21,000-sq.-ft. facility, as well as a smaller facility in Utah. HCFC was founded in 1994 by president Steve Wilson and VP David Hanks.

FINN Corporation company manufactures a line of landscape and erosion control machinery, which are used for mulching, seed distribution, watering, fire and dust suppression, fertilizing, straw blowing, and other purposes. FINN also sells turf-enhancing additives such as plant hormones, microbial bacteria (to aid germination and fight disease), and polymers. Its customers include golf courses, land development companies, residential and commercial landscaping businesses, fire departments, sports fields, and farmers. Selling its products through dealers, FINN distributes throughout the US and Canada, and also distributes to select international markets.

Oerlikon Barmag company makes spinning and textile machines used to produce manmade fibers. Its machines process raw material to make sportswear, carpet, safety belts, and other products. The company has subsidiaries located in most regions of the world and has boosted sales through acquisitions, including Neumag, a maker of textile machines and staple fibers. Barmag's largest customer base resides in the Asian market, primarily China, as well as India and Taiwan. Barmag is part of the Oerlikon Textile, which was the textile division of Switzerland-based Saurer until it branched off in 2007.

OTB Group B.V., through its subsidiaries, designs, engineers, develops, and manufactures tailor made inline production equipment. It offers inline equipment for disposable contact lenses, solar cells, and spectacle lenses. The company also sells CD/DVD mastering and replication activities. It provides polymer and small molecule based OLED production equipment, in-line integrated production lines for the manufacturing of polymer OLED displays, and in-line integrated production lines for the manufacturing of small molecule OLED displays. OTB Group B.V. offers solar cell manufacturing equipment, such as inline solar cell production systems and anti reflective coating deposition tools.

Fabco Equipment thinks CATs are fab. Fabco company sells and rents new and used Caterpillar equipment and engines. It also holds an extensive inventory of parts and offers services that include fluids analysis, rebuilds, hydraulic services, and engine services. Fabco Equipment operates about 25 facilities throughout Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula and serves customers in the construction, agriculture, forestry, mining, trucking, marine, and power generation industries. Power for tailgaiting activities at Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers, stems from generators provided by Fabco. Chairman Joseph Fabick founded the company in 1982.

GEA Group is helping growing markets around the globe get a grip on their process engineering needs, especially those requiring heat exchange (cooling, freezing, heating) and exchange of material (drying, separating, distilling, pumping/dosing, and packaging). Having divested itself of its turnkey plant construction operations, GEA is now divided into Farm Technologies, Heat Exchangers, Mechanical Equipment, Process Engineering, and Refrigeration Technologies. Operating through about 250 companies in some 50 countries worldwide, GEA gets more than 85% of its sales from outside of Germany.

Joy Global Inc. engages in the manufacture and servicing of mining equipment for the extraction of coal, copper, iron ore, oil sands, and other minerals worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Underground Mining Machinery, Surface Mining Equipment, and Continental Crushing and Conveying. The Underground Mining Machinery segment produces continuous miners, longwall shearers, powered roof supports, armored face conveyors, shuttle cars, flexible conveyor trains, roof bolters, battery haulers, and continuous haulage systems. It also rebuilds and services equipment, and sells replacement parts and consumables in support of installed base. The Surface Mining Equipment segment produces electric mining shovels, walking draglines, and rotary blasthole drills. This segment also provides used electric mining shovels, logistics, and life cycle management support services. The Continental Crushing and Conveying segment manufactures and distributes bulk material crushing and conveyor systems used in coal and hard rock mining for metals and minerals, aggregates, and tunneling. Its products include feeder breakers, conveyor systems, and high angle conveyors.

Lock Joint Tube manufactures mechanical and structural grade steel tubing for OEM and metal fabricators. The company's various sized and shaped tubing offers a breadth of applications, from bedside tables and wheelchairs to IV stands and hand railings used in medical facilities. Customers hail from the automotive, healthcare, office furniture, and exercise and display fixtures market. Lock Joint Tube is privately held by Lerman Enterprises (a network of four industrial metal companies), which also owns Indiana-based Steel Warehouse Company, Inc.

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