Named after scientist/founder Arthur H. Thomas, the company, formed in 1900 and better known as Thomas Scientific, is one of the oldest and largest distributors of scientific laboratory equipment in the US. It shelves an array of beakers and bell jars, centrifuges, hydrometers, microscopes, and test tubes. In addition to equipment, the company supplies the chemicals used in laboratory research. Customers range from public schools and government agencies to cosmetic, food and beverage, and petrochemical businesses around the world. Equally vital, distribution partnerships are cultivated with equipment makers, including Shimadzu Scientific Instruments.

Consider flexible packaging and specialty papers maker Packaging Dynamics. Its BagcraftPapercon unit converts paper, film, and foil into food packaging such as bags and wraps, butcher and freezer paper, pan liners, and tissue. International Converter produces adhesive and film extrusion lamination materials for making decorative cartons, bags, cans, and goods for consumer, medical, and industrial purposes. Thilmany Papers makes specialty lightweight papers for a diversity of packaging, pressure sensitive, and industrial uses from sandwich wraps and microwave popcorn bags to baggage tags and tapes. Packaging Dynamics is a portfolio company of Kohlberg & Company.

A. Stucki Company designs and manufactures ball bearings, including roller side bearings, long travel side bearings, body side bearings, and resilient friction elements, for railroad freight cars worldwide. It also offers repair and reconditioning services, as well as rail car parts through its subsidiary operations. A. Stucki invests much of its revenue in R&D and designs turnkey systems. Besides the US, the company has operations in Australia, Brazil, Mexico, and the Ukraine. Arnold Stucki, a Swiss mechanical engineer and the author of Steel Car Design, founded A. Stucki Company in 1911. Gladstone Investment is a leading investor in A. Stucki.

Kreider Corporation was established in 1952 as a sheet metal shop, and today has grown to a dynamic metal stamping and four-slide house with value added capabilities in assembly, welding, tool making, product and tool design.

Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions (formerly Color Kinetics) can give a chameleon a run for its money. Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions company, operating as Philips Color Kinetics, makes digital lighting products for a variety of commercial and consumer applications. Its Chromacore products generates virtually millions of colors and a variety of dynamic lighting effects using microprocessor-controlled light emitting diodes (LEDs). The company also makes power supplies and controllers used in conjunction with its lighting products. Customers come from the aerospace, architectural, entertainment, and vending and gaming industries. Philips Color Kinetics is part of Luminaires, itself a division of Royal Philips Electronics' lighting unit.

Tricorn Group helps its customers put the pieces together. It designs, manufactures, and distributes environmental engineering products. The group's primary operating companies are Malvern Tubular Components (tubular components and assemblies), Maxpower Automotive (tube manipulations and pipe assemblies), Redman Fittings (pipe jointing systems), RMDG Aerospace (pipes and fittings for aircraft), and issquared (engineering consulting services). Tricorn supplies customers worldwide in the manufacturing, power generation, and utilities industries, among others.

Concept Packaging Group packages a lot more than original ideas. It manufactures corrugated paperboard, corrugated plastic, wood packaging, and other packaging materials. The company's thermoformed trays can be made to precisely fit customers' products while its corrugated products provide disposable and reusable packaging options. For products that fall outside the box, Concept Packaging's wood packaging and metal racks accommodate bulkier items, ranging from heavy equipment to motors. Concept Packaging Group company also provides contract packaging, logistics services, and inventory management. The company's 15 manufacturing facilities are located east of the Mississippi, with one in California.

Thomas Walker Global Limited has manufactured and distributed fasteners to the apparel industry for more than a century. Products include the brace fittings, buckles, and hook-and-bar fasteners used in making clothing, as well as the machinery to attach the hardware. TW also supplies an identity accessory line, such as wallet inserts, lanyards, and retractable badge reels for use in security and access control. It sells worldwide via a network of distributors. The global economic recession dented sales for the company and its subsidiaries, three of which were eventually liquidated.

Endpak Packaging Inc. company manufactures five types of industrial kraft bags used to hold a breadth of products, from animal feed to fertilizer, baking mix, and beans, and single beers. The lineup of tubular-style bags includes pinch bottom open mouth, pasted valve stepped end, and a long durable sleeve, or end bag for holding hundreds of can lids. Despite 2009's weak economy, along with California's soaring costs and tightly regulated business environment, Endpak relocated and expanded its manufacturing plant. Opened in 1993, Endpak Packaging company is owned and run by the Garcias.

NewPage Group Inc. company is run through its subsidiary NewPage Corp. and is one of the largest makers of coated and specialty paper (used in annual reports, magazines, and catalogs) in North America. From 20 paper machines and 10 mills located in the eastern part of the US and Canada, NewPage churns out about 4.4 million tons of paper annually. Its top customer, xpedx, accounts for about 20% of sales; other customers include Conde Nast, McGraw-Hill, Time Inc., and Avery Dennison. NewPage Group Inc. company got its start in 2006 when MeadWestvaco sold its papers business to investment firm Cerberus Capital.

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