SPX Corporation provides flow technology products, test and measurement products, thermal equipment and services, and industrial products and services worldwide. The company’s Flow Technology segment provides products and solutions that are used to blend, meter, and transport fluids. This segment offers high-integrity pumps, valves, heat exchangers, fluid mixers, agitators, metering systems, and filters and dehydration equipment for food and beverage, oil and gas, power generation, chemical, mining, and general industrial industries. Its Test and Measurement segment provides diagnostic service tools, fare-collection systems, and portable cable and pipe locators for the transportation, telecommunications, and utility industries. The company’s Thermal Equipment and Services segment engineers, manufactures, and services cooling, heating, and ventilation products, including dry, wet, and hybrid cooling systems for the power generation, refrigeration, HVAC, and industrial markets, as well as hydronic, and heating and ventilation products for the commercial and residential markets. This segment also provides thermal components and engineered services to power and steam generation plants. Its Industrial Products and Services segment designs, manufactures, and markets power transformers for utilities; industrial tools and hydraulic units, and precision machine components for the aerospace industry; crystal growing machines for the solar power generation; television, radio, and cell phone and data transmission broadcast antenna systems; communications and signal monitoring systems; and precision controlled industrial ovens and chambers. The company sells its products through stocking distributors, manufacturing representatives, third-party distributors, direct sales, and retailers. It was formerly known as Piston Ring Company and changed its name to SPX Corporation in 1988. SPX Corporation was founded in 1911 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Simpson Strong-Tie manufactures steel connectors for wood, concrete, and masonry that help keep buildings standing. The company's reinforcement products include anchors, angles, bases, caps, connectors, fasteners, and hangers; it also offers prefabricated shearwalls, powder-actuated tools, and adhesives. The Home Depot is its largest customer. The company, which has been making connectors since 1956, is a subsidiary of Simpson Manufacturing. It serves customers in the commercial and residential construction, furniture, and do-it-yourself markets. Simpson Strong-Tie has manufacturing and warehouse operations in North America, Europe, and the Asia/Pacific region.

Columbia-Staver Limited manufactures heat sinks, semiconductor manufacturing hardware, and precision metal pressings. The company's products include aluminum heat sinks, EMI/RFI screenings, clips, spacers, and other accessories used in the assembly of semiconductors. Columbia-Staver also designs fine blank multi-slide, multi-stage, transfer, and lamination tools. The company serves customers in the aerospace, automotive engineering, electronics, and technology manufacturing industries among others.

The 50/50 joint venture combines Cooper's Tool segment with certain tool businesses of Danaher's Tools and Components segment. Through its own business segments, Apex Tool Group manufactures hand tools, power tools, and professional electronic tools for use in both commercial and do-it-yourself applications. Offering more than 30 brand names -- including Crescent, GearWrench, Armstrong, and Weller -- Apex serves 30 countries. Its products are sold through distributors and supply houses to customers in the automotive, aerospace, construction, electronics, and manufacturing and assembly sectors.

Materials Transportation Company was founded in 1946 to provide growing industries with safe, efficient, and economical methods for material handling. Since its inception, MTC has expanded from a small sales office in the Midwest to its current 150,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Temple, Texas. MTC manufactures a wide variety of material handling equipment for use in such industries as food processing, grocery distribution, clothing, pharmaceutical, and automotive, to name just a few.As a growing company, both in size and technology, MTC strives to meet the ever-increasing demands of industry by offering the complete sales, design, engineering, and manufacturing of a wide variety of material handling equipment. Currently MTC manufactures battery handling equipment and food processing equipment.

Metso Corporation and its subsidiaries design, develop, and produce systems, automation solutions, machinery, and equipment for process industries worldwide. It operates in three segments: Mining and Construction Technology, Energy and Environmental Technology, and Paper and Fiber Technology. The Mining and Construction Technology segment provides equipment, technology, and services for quarrying, aggregates production, construction, civil engineering, and mining and minerals processing. Its products and services comprise grinding mills, crushing and materials-handling equipment, and process equipment; stationary and mobile crushers, screens, and conveyors; know-how and maintenance services; systems, wear and spare parts, and service solutions; and process technology and process optimization services. This segment serves mining and construction industries, as well as for quarries and contractors. The Energy and Environmental Technology segment supplies power generation, automation, field controls, recycling, and waste management solutions for power, oil and gas, metals recycling, and pulp and paper industries. Its products and services include boiler plants, biomass power plants, and environmental protection equipment; energy and process industry automation and information management application networks and systems; production process measurement systems and analyzers; control valves and smart shut-off valves; metal and solid-waste recycling equipment; and knowledge-based services.

Ross Aluminum Castings utilizes aluminum alloy melting processes and continuous degassing techniques to filter molten metal to remove oxides, inclusions, and hydrogen gas porosity. A subsidiary of Advanced Metals Group since 2007, Ross is one of its parent company's four foundries, in addition to US Aluminum Castings, Oberdorfer, and Mabry Castings. Ross's casting processes include dry sand, green sand, permanent mold and drag, and squeeze casting. Products include aerospace castings and housings, automotive castings, and turbo charger housings.

Indústrias Romi S.A. ompany makes industrial manufacturing products such as machine tools, including metal cutting and removal machines (lathes); plastic injection molding machines (Romi and Sandretto brands); and cast iron parts. Among its clients are vehicle, consumer goods, and agricultural and industrial equipment makers. Romi sells its products across Brazil through more than 30 branches and sales offices; it also has a network of distributors around the globe. Américo Emílio Romi founded Indústrias Romi S.A. in 1930 from an automobile repair shop in São Paulo. Romi tried and failed to buy US-based machine tool maker Hardinge in 2010.

Sniace (Sociedad Nacional Industrias Aplicaciones Celulosa Espasola) produces some 40,000 metric tons of paper and about 66,000 metric tons of cellulose per year. It also makes viscose (used in rayon and cellophane), polyamide 6 (a thermoplastic used to make Velcro, clothing, and industrial nets), and a variety of other chemicals. The company's Sniace Cogeneration subsidiary produces enough electricity to power Sniace's factories; it sells its surplus to Electra de Viesgo, a Spain-based utility company. Founded in 1939, Sniace has logging enterprises at its 13,580-acre reserve in the Cantabria region of Spain and exports nearly 80% of its products.

Emak S.p.A. company (actually a group of companies) is a leading manufacturer of portable gardening and forestry maintenance machinery in Italy. Its products include chain saws, lawn mowers, and hedge trimmers, sold under the Efco and Oleo-Mac brand names. Brushcutters and chainsaws are the company's most popular products. Emak distributes its products through subsidiaries in its major markets, which include Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and the UK. Holding company Yama S.p.A. controls Emak, which was originally created from the 1992 merger of the Efco and Oleo-Mac companies.

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