Great Plains Manufacturing goes to great pains to help farmers across the fruited plain to sow, grow, and harvest the fruits of their labor. Through its Great Plains division the company designs, manufactures, and sells agricultural planting, spraying, and cultivating equipment. Its Land Pride unit sells landscaping products such as mowers and aerators. Great Plains Acceptance Corporation (GPAC) provides equipment financing, and Great Plains Trucking provides related trucking services in the US and Canada. Great Plains Manufacturing distributes its products through a network of more than 700 Great Plains dealers and more than 1,100 Land Pride dealers, who sell equipment to more than 30 countries.

ATI Wah Chang (formerly Wah Chang, which in part means "great development") creates specialty metals and chemicals. Wah Chang principally makes zirconium mill products, as well as other corrosion-resistant specialty metals such as hafnium, niobium, titanium, and vanadium. The company's products are used in industries including aerospace, chemical processing, energy production, medical, and consumer goods. It also provides laboratory services for metal testing and analysis. Its Ti Wire division makes titanium bar and wire products, while business unit Midwest Laboratory performs radiological monitoring. The company, now a subsidiary of Allegheny Technologies, dates back to a trading company founded in 1916.

Jore makes power tool accessories and hand tools under retailers' private labels and for power tool manufacturers. Products include drill sets, driver bits, quick-change systems, and related accessories. Customers have included Stanley Black & Decker, and Sears. In addition to private-label manufacturing, Jore markets products under its Rocky Mountain Twist and Montana Brand names. The company was founded in 1990. It was acquired out of bankruptcy in 2002 by Western Mortgage and Realty for about $30 million.

WIKA Instrument Corporation company makes electronic and mechanical pressure gauges, thermometers, sensors, transmitters, and other instrumentation, as well as diaphragm seals for HVAC and other systems. Its products are used in oil and gas, biodiesel, ethanol, water treatment, hydraulic and fluid power, and manufacturing applications. WIKA sells directly, through distributors, or via the company's Web site to more than 100 countries. WIKA Instrument Corporation company is a fully owned subsidiary of Germany-based components manufacturer WIKA Alexander Wiegand, which has been in business for more than 60 years.

CIC Group is not new to the weight of family values. The employee-owned holding company manages a diversified mix of manufacturing and construction businesses. CIC's Nooter Corp. specializes in engineering and construction services for equipment in a myriad of industries, from refining to utilities, food, and paper. Operations include Nooter Construction, Wyatt Field Service, RMF Nooter, and Pressline Service Inc., which offers printing press repair. Among CIC's other concerns, St. Louis Metallizing provides thermal spray services to apply metal and ceramic coatings to parts, and Megamet Solid Metals manufactures injection molds. CIC's Superior Corporate Travel offers services for corporate and personal trips.

Neenah Foundry makes gray and ductile iron castings (including cast iron tree grates and manhole covers) and forged components for the heavy municipal and industrial markets. Other products include bridge scuppers, curb inlets, floor drains, trenches, wheel guards, and other castings. Its products contain at least 85% recycled material from auto bodies and scrap iron. Founded in 1872, it has sales and distribution yards in 13 states. Customers include architects, engineers, city and state governments, and contractors. Parent Neenah Enterprises filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection along with its subsidiaries in February 2010 and emerged in July of the same year.

Sterling Crane is a Marmon Construction Services/Berkshire Hathaway company. Marmon Construction Services is a business sector within The Marmon Group, an international association of more than 125 autonomous manufacturing and service businesses with collective revenues of approximately US $7 billion. Berkshire Hathaway and its subsidiaries engage in a number of diverse business activities including property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, utilities and energy, finance, manufacturing, retailing and services. Common stock of Berkshire Hathaway is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, trading symbols BRK.A and BRK.B. Other members of this group include such companies as Procor Limited, Enersul, Marmon-Keystone, and Ecodyne Limited.

Kalas Manufacturing makes a living out of cable and wire. Also known as Kalas Wire, Kalas Manufacturing company produces and distributes an electrical wire and cable lineup integral to bulk and irrigation wire, engineered battery cable, and submersible pump cable applications. Operating through three plants in Denver, Pennsylvania, and one in Lancaster, Kalas Manufacturing company touts flexible production capacity for making wire and cable used in a diversity of markets, from household appliances to industrial construction and marine equipment, and recreational vehicles. Customers are courted worldwide through authorized distributors. The founding Witwer family owns and leads Kalas.

Businesses let Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America (MCFA) do their heavy lifting. Joining the brains and brawn of two major material handlers, MCFA manufactures and distributes forklift trucks under the Mitsubishi brand, and lift trucks under the Caterpillar brand. Its subsidiary, Rapidparts, Inc., distributes service parts for several competitors' brands of material handling equipment. Parts are sold under the Promatch (Caterpillar) and Mastersource (Mitsubishi) brand names. MCFA provides assembly, fabrication, and supply chain services across the Americas and the Caribbean. It delivers manufacturing and support services along with other MCF companies to Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Capps Manufacturing makes and assembles aircraft parts, including door assemblies, wings, components, and sheet metal pieces, at its 80,000 sq. ft. plant. Services include machining, roll forming, hydro forming, extrusion and skin stretch forming, component assembly, and heat treating. Customers include Boeing, Cessna, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and other major aircraft makers. Capps differentiates itself by doing assembly work few other companies have the desire to take on. Owner and president Barney Capps started Capps Manufacturing in 1983.

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