Amcor PET Packaging company is #1 in the Americas for manufacturing polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers. Customers include those in the food industry (dressings, sauces and salsas, fruit and nut spreads) and beverage producers (soft drinks, water, juices, dairy, and beer). Amcor PET supplies non-food applications, too, from household cleaners to liquid soap and lotion, hair care, pharmaceutical, automotive, and agro-chemical goods. Practicing another kind of green, it recycles a hefty 100 million pounds of PET a year. A business unit of Amcor Limited, Amcor PET's 60-plus manufacturing facilities dot a dozen countries.

SPI/Mobile Pulley Works Inc. company manufactures castings and pump assemblies for the dredging industry, and operates primarily through its Mobile Pulley unit. SPI/Mobile Pulley Works Inc. company acquired the then bankrupt Mobile Pulley LLC from Offshore Tool & Energy Corp. for $2.4 million in 2003. Mobile Pulley was a leading producer of large metal cast parts and machined components for the US and international dredging markets, as well as for mining and industrial users. SPI/Mobile Pulley Works has been in operation since 1892.

Gerresheimer Glas is a glass act. It makes bottles and containers for the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. Through its four divisions - Tubular Glass, Moulded Glass, Plastic Systems, and Life Science Research - Gerresheimer company drives pharmaceutics packaging such as ampoules, cartridges, and laboratory glassware, as well as dosing systems such as disposable syringe systems, sprays, and dropper bottles, and cosmetics bottles for fragrances. Its US presence is held through pharma glass group Comar, and a joint venture, Kimble Chase Life Science and Research Products, with Thermo Fisher Scientific. In 2004 private equity firm Blackstone Group bought Gerresheimer Glas from Investcorp and J.P. Morgan Partners.

Founded in 1836, Elster American Meter Company, LLC pioneered the shift to aluminum-case meters as a replacement for cast iron. Elster American Meter's products have been ticking for more than 170 years. The specialty manufacturer, formerly known as American Meter, makes natural gas meters, regulators, shutoff devices, filters, test equipment, and accessories, and provides services including metering, data collection and transfer, and evaluation. Elster American Meter company is a unit of the Elster Group, which has some 70 natural gas measurement and control subsidiaries worldwide. Elster American Meter introduced the synthetic molded, convoluted diaphragm that established new industry standards for long-term accuracy and reliability.

Nextec manufactures windproof, water resistant, and breathable fabrics used primarily in apparel, but also in vehicle covers, outdoor gear, dog beds, and medical applications. While other performance fabrics rely on coatings, laminates, or durable water repellent treatments to provide protection, the Nextec encapsulation process places the protection inside the fabric. This encapsulation process wraps an ultra thin polymer around individual woven fabric fibers. Nextec Applications' customers include Lands' End, Orvis, Patagonia, and Bibler Tents. Its fabrics are also used in making apparel for the military.

Technology Research Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of electrical safety products that save lives, protect people against serious injury from electrical shock, and/or prevent electrical fires in the home and workplace. TRC company's products include protective devices, such as ground fault circuit interrupters, equipment leakage current interrupters, and portable residual current devices, which are ground fault devices providing protection from dangerous electrical shock by sensing leakage of electricity and cutting off power. Its products also comprise leakage current detection interrupters that are used to reduce the risk of electrical fires by disconnecting power when sensing current leakage between conductors of power cords. In addition, the company offers power surge strips, safety circuits, power cord, and safety extension cords; automatic transfer switches; electrical safety solutions to a range of recreational vehicle manufacturers; and cable protection and management products. It also designs and supplies power monitoring and control equipment to the United States military and its contractors for tactical vehicles, naval vessels, and mobile electric generators; and licenses its technology for use by others in exchange for a royalty or product purchases.

RBS Global is the parent company of Rexnord LLC, whose subsidiaries serve the company's two main segments. Process Motion Control (formerly Power Transmission) manufactures gear drives, couplings, bearings, and chains and conveying equipment for use in the aerospace, construction, energy, mining, marine, and petrochemical industries. Its Water Management segment is supported by three primary companies: Zurn Industries, GA Industries, and Rodney Hunt. It designs and makes water-related products for conservation, quality, drainage, safety, and flow control. The US accounts for over 70% of the company's sales. In 2006 The Carlyle Group sold RBS Global to Apollo Management for about $1.8 billion.

The Gorman-Rupp Company engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of pumps and related fluid control products worldwide. It offers a line of pumps, including self priming centrifugal, standard centrifugal, magnetic drive centrifugal, axial and mixed flow, rotary gear, diaphragm, bellows, and oscillating pumps. The company’s larger pumps are sold principally for use in the construction, industrial, sewage, and waste handling fields; for boosting low residential water pressure; for pumping refined petroleum products, including the ground refueling of aircraft; for heating and cooling in heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) applications; for dewatering and flood control purposes; and for various agricultural uses. Its fire protection pumps have applications in sprinkler systems, fire hydrants, stand pipes, fog systems, and deluge systems at hotels, banks, factories, airports, schools, and public buildings. The Gorman-Rupp Company sells small pumps for use in various products, such as food processing, chemical, photo processing, waste treatment, HVAC equipment, and appliances, as well as for automated explosives detection systems in airports. The Gorman-Rupp company markets its products through a network of distributors, manufacturers’ representatives, third-party distributor catalogs, and direct sales. The Gorman-Rupp Company was founded in 1933 and is based in Mansfield, Ohio.

Prime Advantage Corporation company is a private buying consortium focused on creating the best possible savings on raw materials, components, supplies, and services for its client base. Founded in 1997, Prime Advantage's prime strategy of aggregating the purchasing power of individual manufacturers has increased cost savings for its members on a wide array of office and industrial supplies. Prime Advantage Corporation company's supplier roster includes distributors of abrasives, bearings, circuit boards, fasteners, lift trucks, motors, pumps, and valves made by manufacturers such as Motion Industries, Fastenal Company, and Macsteel Service Centers.

Bristol Metals is the largest US manufacturer of stainless steel welded pipe. Its pipe is also made from corrosion-resistant nickel alloy and titanium. The line ranges from 1/2 to 120 inches in diameter, and 36 inches to 48-feet in length. Bristol grew in 2009 with the acquisition of carbon pipe maker Ram-Fab. Bristol serves diverse arenas -- petrochemical, mining, power (including nuclear), brewery, food processing, and pulp and paper. Its manufacture of large alloy pipe, rare among domestic pipe makers, enables the company to also enter markets for waste water treatment, liquid natural gas, and scrubbers for power industries. The company is a subsidiary of Synalloy.

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