Bobcat Company specializes in compact construction and utility equipment. Its products include mini-track and skid-steer loaders, loader backhoes, excavators, and attachments for all of them. Its brand lines include the M-Series (mini), CT-Series (compact tractor), Toolcat (utility), and VersaHandler (telescopic tool). Based in North Dakota, the company operates manufacturing facilities in the US, the Czech Republic, and France. There are more than 1,000 Bobcat dealers in 100 countries. In 2007 Ingersoll-Rand sold Bobcat, along with its utility equipment and attachments businesses, to Korea's Doosan Infracore and Doosan Engine for almost $5 billion.

AeroGrow International company develops and manufactures a line of indoor gardening products and seed kits for both amateur and experienced gardeners. Using a self-contained light source and hydroponics technologies (water in place of soil), AeroGrow's products are capable of growing a variety of vegetables, herbs, and flowers. It offers more than 15 garden models and 50 seed kits, which are sold in the US through retailers such as Target, Kohl's, and Bed Bath & Beyond, as well as through its own website. Aerogrow was founded in 2002 by former CEO and chairman Michael Bissonnette.

Talan Products offers custom metal stamping, tube forming, and tube fabrication services; it also provides machine processing services such as bending, countersinking, drilling, and welding. Talan Products makes a range of tooling and engineered parts for customers in the automotive, construction, consumer appliance, defense, and hardware markets. Talan Products' primary business is mid- to high-volume metal stampings. Founders and company executives -- CEO Steve Peplin, president Pete Accorti, and manufacturing VP Pat Parziale -- own and run the company.

Hirschfeld Steel fabricates structural steel components for such critical construction projects as bridges, industrial and nuclear facilities, mass transit systems, and stadiums. The company's services include designing, engineering, fabricating, delivering, inspecting, painting, and sand blasting. Hirschfeld Steel has been involved in providing steel for commercial buildings such as Minute Maid Park, Busch Stadium, Heinz Field, Reliant Stadium, and Chicago's Soldier Field. The company is a subsidiary of Hirschfeld Industries, a family of companies that has operations in steel fabrication technology, supply, and transportation.

Zotefoams plc is the world's leading manufacturer of cross-linked block foams. Its products are used in a wide range of markets including sports and leisure, packaging, transport, healthcare, toys, building, marine and the military. Through a unique production process, Zotefoams Company produces foams that have controlled properties and are of a strength, consistency, quality and purity superior to foams produced by other methods. Zotefoams strategy is to create sustained profit growth by expanding its sales internationally and by broadening its potential market by developing new, unique products. This strategy is supported by our commitment to quality, innovation and customer service through investment in the training and development of our employees.

Ebara Corporation's products keep fluids flowing, air and water clear, and networks humming. Ebara Corporation company is one of the world's largest manufacturers of industrial pumps and related equipment. Ebara's environmental engineering segment offers fluidized-bed gasification (turning biomass waste into combustible gas) and incineration, water treatment, and vacuum sewerage systems. The company's precision machinery group makes products such as chemical mechanical polishers, wafer carrier washers, and solder-plating equipment, for use in the manufacture of semiconductors and other high-precision devices. Ebara has significant market presence in China, Europe, and the US; 30% of its total sales come from overseas.

P&F Industries helps craftsmen use less muscle. It operates through two primary subsidiaries: Continental Tool Group and Countrywide Hardware. Continental Tool Group sells air-powered tools, including sanders, drills, and saws. The subsidiary comprises Florida Pneumatic Manufacturing Corporation and Hy-Tech Machine. Florida Pneumatic's Berkley Tool unit makes pipe-cutting tools and wrenches for machinery for Sears and Home Depot. Countrywide Hardware, through Nationwide Industries, produces and imports door, window, and fencing hardware, while its WM Coffman unit makes and imports stair parts and accessories. Chairman and CEO Richard Horowitz owns about 30% of P&F.

Milacron retooled in the '90s to focus on plastics processing technologies and industrial fluids. It leads five businesses. The largest, a plastics machinery unit makes injection molding and extrusion processing equipment used to produce dashboards to decking. Uniloy churns out blow molding systems for packaging myriad goods, and DME, parts, such as mold bases, for plastics machinery. Other units, Cimcool supplies coolants, lubricants, and cleaners for metal grinding, machining, and stamping. Manufacturing parts for wind power, oil and gas, and heavy equipment is done by Milacron Precision Machining. North America is Milacron's core market.

Pentaflex (named in part after its five original investors) flexes its muscles as a manufacturer of metal stampings. The company operates hydraulic presses, mechanical presses, and steelweld presses to make its metal stampings. It also uses such methods as heat treating, painting, and plating. Customers include companies which design and make axles, brakes, clutches, transmissions, and wheel and drive line components for heavy trucks. Pentaflex also sells metal stampings to the agriculture, automotive, lawn and garden, and the industrial markets. The company was founded in 1972.

Work at Advanced Drainage Systems (ADS) isn't going down the drain, it is the drain. ADS manufactures high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes for storm and sanitary sewers, agricultural drainage, road and highway construction, and residential and commercial development. The corrugated HDPE lineup runs from culverts to drains, fittings, grates, grease interceptors, and leaching chambers. ADS even offers a mix of green building products. Customers are mining and timber operators as well as engineers in highway construction and waste management systems. ADS products lie under fabled US athletic turf and recreation sites, such as Augusta National, Dodger Stadium, and Lambeau Field. ADS is an employee-owned company.

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