United Capital Corp. engages in the investment and management of real estate properties. United Capital company also operates hotels, as well as manufactures and sells engineered products. Its Real Estate Investment and Management segment invests in and manages real estate properties, as well as engages in making short-term loans secured by desirable properties. This segment owns properties that are leased primarily as department stores, shopping centers, restaurants, and office buildings; and properties available for sale and lease, as well as owns day-care centers in New York City. United Capital's Hotel Operations segment operates four full and limited-service hotels located in the United States. Its Engineered Products segment offers knitted wire products and components for use in airbags, shock and vibration isolators, noise reduction elements, and EMI electronic shielding, as well as in air, liquid, and solid filtering devices for the automotive, aerospace, and general industrial markets worldwide.

Franklin Electric Co., Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and distribution of groundwater and fuel pumping systems. It operates in two segments, Water Systems and Fueling Systems. The Water Systems segment designs, manufactures, and sells motors, pumps, electronic controls, and related parts and equipment primarily for use in submersible water and other fluid system applications. Its motors and pumps are used principally in submersible applications for pumping fresh water, wastewater, and other liquids in various residential, agricultural, and industrial applications, as well as off-shore drilling and mining applications. This segment offers electronic drives and controls for the motors, which control functionality and provide protection from various hazards, such as electric surges, over-heating, or dry wells and tanks. The Fueling Systems segment designs, manufactures, and sells pumps, electronic controls, and related parts and equipment primarily for use in submersible fueling system applications. It also integrates and sells motors and electronic controls produced by the Water Systems segment.

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.

Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Company was established in 1917 as the shipbuilding division of Mitsui & Co. It separated from Mitsui 20 years later to become Tama Shipyard, then changed its name during WWII to Mitsui Shipbuilding & Engineering. Although nearly one-half of the company's sales come from building ships, including oil carriers and hull tankers, MES also makes industrial machinery (engines, boilers, gas turbines, and robotic systems) and constructs plants (for water treatment, oil refining, waste treatment facilities, gas chemistry, and chemicals). The company's other divisions build such steel structures as bridges, watergates, and penstocks.

Technical Consumer Products company is the one of the largest manufacturers of energy efficient compact fluorescent light (CFLs) bulbs for the US marketplace. CFLs boast a brighter, longer use with fewer emissions. TCP also markets light-emitting diode (LED) lamps and fixtures, cold cathode lamps, exit and emergency lighting, and a linear lamp, ballast and fixture line. Products are sold under brands SpringLight and ecoVations at Home Depot and Kmart, and distributed by Graybar Electric and Rexel for use in commercial, industrial, and healthcare facilities, as well as consumer households.

Ronile company manufactures custom-dyed accent yarns, including twisted, space-dyed, air-ply, and heatset yarns. Ronile's slew of finished yarn goods include nylon, polyester, acrylic, and other wool fibers, which are marketed to carpet, rug, home furnishings, craft, and automotive markets. Ronile also operates through subsidiary Bacova Guild, Ltd., a manufacturer and supplier of printed accent rugs, room-size rugs, and bath ensembles to US retail chains, and Gulistan, a division supplying broadloom carpet. Employee-owned, the company is led by its founder's son, Phillip Essig.

Troy Aikman doesn't lob bricks, but the former Cowboys quarterback does pitch products for Acme Brick. From more than 20 brick manufacturing plants, the Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary produces and distributes more than a billion bricks annually to its construction customers in a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes. It also makes all-brick wood-burning fireplace systems. Acme Brick holds a family of companies, including Acme-Ochs Brick & Stone, offering brick and natural stone; American Tile, distributing residential and commercial stone tiles; Featherlite masonry materials; IBP Glass Block Grid System, making custom aluminum glass block grids; and Texas Quarries, supplying limestone.

Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG) is a world player in paper based packaging with leading market positions in Europe and in Latin America. With sales in 2009 of € 6 billion and around 38,000 employees, the Smurfit Kappa Group is a focused player in paper based packaging. Operating in 30 countries (21 in Europe and 9 in Latin America), it is the European leader in containerboard, solid board, corrugated and solid board packaging and has a key position in several other packaging and paper market segments including graphic board and sack paper. It is a market leader in corrugated in Latin America and occupies the number two position in containerboard there. Its Group headquarters are in Dublin with regional headquarters in Paris (Europe) and Miami (Latin America).

Buffalo Pumps has been pumping out industrial pumps for more than a century. Buffalo Pumps company -- located yes, just north of Buffalo, New York -- manufactures mainly centrifugal pumps used in refrigeration, power generation, and marine defense industries. Commercial pumps are the Buffalo Pumps' key product, which it supplies to OEMs in the commercial lube oil, paper, and refrigeration markets. Buffalo Pumps company also offers overhaul services, and is able to reproduce parts originally fabricated over 50 years ago. Major customers include Carrier, General Electric, Solar Turbines, Westinghouse, and the US Navy. Buffalo Pumps is a subsidiary of Pennsylvania-based manufacturer Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation.

Founded in 1976, Metro Machinery (also known as Metro-Cat) offers a range of Caterpillar vehicles for construction, mining, material handling, agriculture, petroleum, marine, and power generation uses. Metro Machinery company also sells Caterpillar-brand diesel engines and generators. Metro employs a staff of technicians and mechanics who provide repair support to buyers, as well as an arsenal of more than 25,000 parts and components for its various vehicles. Metro boasts roughly 30 domestic branches in addition to its Bangkok headquarters.

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