Texwinca Holdings Limited company manufactures and distributes dyed yarns, knitted fabrics, casual apparel, and accessories. It produces about 15 million pounds of fabric a month. Texwinca's knitting and dyeing production business is centralized under Dongguan Texwinca Textile & Garment Ltd. The company also provides franchise services, and its sales network covers Asia, Europe, and the US. It also offers services in the repair and maintenance services of motors and generators and the trading of generators. Poon Bun Chak (chairman and managing director) founded Texwinca in 1975. The company continues to be profitable.

Matthews International might not bury its competition, but it can supply the casket and bronze marker. The nation's leading maker of cremation equipment and urns, bronze memorials (including Elvis Presley's Graceland marker), and commemorative products (Baseball Hall of Fame plaques), Matthews also builds mausoleums. Subsidiaries The York Group (the #2 casket maker in the US) and Milso make metal and wood caskets, while Matthews Cremation Division is North America's top cremation equipment maker. Other subsidiaries offer graphics design, packaging, and merchandising services. Matthews has operations in Asia, Australia, Canada, and Europe, but the US accounts for more than 60% of its sales.

Pharr Yarns spins yarn for use in a number of products including apparel, carpets, conveyor belts, industrial filters, military and fire fighting uniforms, and work gloves. Its high performance engineered yarn is used in technical, commercial, protective, and industrial applications, as it is resistant to fire, chemicals, and/or cuts. These technical fabrics are sold under brand names such as Kevlar, Torcon, and Dynnema. The company's carpet yarn division supplies yarn to manufacturers of rugs and carpets. The company has manufacturing facilities throughout the US.

Amtek Engineering designs and manufactures precision toolings, as well as metal stampings of parts and casings for appliances, automotive parts, computers, consumer electronics, mass storage, and telecommunications equipment. The company's other services include industrial design, decorative metal finishing, and plastic and rubber injection molding. China and Singapore account for approximately 75% of sales. Amtek's primary subsidiaries are located in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. Amtek Engineering has manufacturing facilities in China, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Motion Industries distributes a slew of bearings, hoses, material handling, and linear motion products. The short list of offerings includes electrical (motors and drives) and mechanical (belts, clutches, and chains), as well as fluid (pneumatic and hydraulic) power transmission replacement parts, supplied by big brands like Bosch Rexroth, Eaton, NSK, Timken, and Baldor. Motion Industries serves more than 116,000 commercial customers in a diversity of industries worldwide.

Hayward Industries wants everyone to take the plunge! Hayward makes fluid-control and related equipment for the pool and spa market. Hayward Pool Products is a leader in its industry, and manufactures automatic cleaning systems, filters, heaters, pool pumps, and other pool-related accessories and equipment such as pool safety products (barriers and vacuum release systems). Hayward Industries company also distributes fiber-optic lighting designed to illuminate pools and backyards. Hayward has operations in North America, Europe, and Australia. Chairman Oscar Davis owns Hayward, which traces its roots to a company founded in 1923.

Barksdale is a manufacturer of switches, valves, and other industrial controls, with a focus on making components for the control and measurement of fluids. Barksdale company's components are used in auto plants, in chemical processing plants and distribution facilities, on machine tools, on offshore drilling rigs, in power generation, in steel mills, and in a host of other industries. In agriculture, for instance, Barksdale pressure switches are used to monitor center pivot irrigation systems, while its temperature switches help maintain optimum growing climates in greenhouses, and its valves control the water supply in cattle feedlots. Barksdale is a subsidiary of Crane Co.

Sterner Automation is an engineering company that manufactures customized machine control products and automated process control systems. Sterner Automation designs, builds, programs, tests, and installs machinery used for manufacturing, personal computer control, and advanced motion control systems. Sterner Automation serves clients in the electronics and automotive industries. Sterner Automation also provides support services for its products including intallation, service repairs and calibrations, and other technical support. Sterner Automation's customers include CFM Corporation, Patheon, and Unilever.

Bodycote plc applies heat treatment and metal joining, and thermal processing, to improve the wear, resistance, and strength of metals, such as those used in jet engine turbine blades and auto engines. Other services are materials testing and hot isostatic pressing -- a process that utilizes high-pressure inert gas and high temperatures to improve the performance of metals and other materials. Through a global network of plants, Bodycote serves a diverse group of OEMs in the aerospace, defense, power generation, and oil and gas industries, as well as automotive, construction, machine building, medical, and transportation.

AbitibiBowater Inc., together with its subsidiaries, produces and sells newsprint, coated and specialty papers, market pulp, and wood products. It offers newsprint; coated mechanical papers; and specialty papers, including supercalendered, superbright, high bright, bulky book, and directory papers for use in magazines, catalogs, books, retail advertising, direct mail, and coupons. AbitibiBowater company also provides market pulp products for use in various consumer products, including tissues, packaging, specialty paper products, diapers, and other absorbent products; and construction-grade lumber products. In addition, it remanufactures and engineers wood for specialized applications, such as bedding components, roofing and flooring material, and other products; and sells pulpwood, saw timber, and wood chips. The company serves commercial printers, publishers, catalogers, retailers, and direct mailers through its regional sales offices and international sales agents. As of December 31, 2009, it owned or operated 23 pulp and paper manufacturing facilities in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and South Korea; and 26 wood products facilities in Canada. AbitibiBowater company is based in Montreal, Canada. On April 16, 2009, AbitibiBowater Inc. and its subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware for relief under the provisions of Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.

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