A Chicago fixture since 1912, Chicago Hardware & Fixture makes wire rope, chain fittings, and other industrial and marine hardware, including turnbuckles, clips, bolts, hoist rings, swivels, rods, nuts, and pins. It also manufactures custom parts. Chicago Hardware & Fixture Company serves customers in agriculture, aerospace, shipping, and mining, among other industries. Founded by John A. Herbstritt, as the Chicago Warehouse and Silo Fixture Co., the business adopted its current name in 1926. Chicago Hardware & Fixture, which is still family owned, operates three plants in the Chicago Metropolitan Area and has warehouse stocking facilities in California, Georgia, Illinois, and Texas.

Michelin North America's tires to make their rounds. So do motorcycles, trucks, and tractors, among many other types of commercial, industrial, and specialty vehicles. With some 20 manufacturing facilities in the US, Canada, and Mexico, Michelin North America makes and sells tires branded with the Michelin, BF Goodrich, and Uniroyal names. One site builds synthetic rubber and rocket fuel components for NASA. Michelin North America generates about one-third of parent Compagnie Genorale des Etablissements Michelin's annual sales. Its tires are sold to consumers, the military, OEMs, and replacement centers. The company also produces North American road maps and travel guides.

VPI (which originally stood for Vinyl Plastics, Inc.) manufactures a full line of plastic flooring products including rubber flooring, green flooring (made from 40% reprocessed material), static control tile, transition molding, and wall base. It also makes accessories including rubber stair treads, risers, stringers, and installation accessories. VPI Corporation company markets its products to companies in the construction, electronics, education, healthcare, and sports industries. VPI was founded as Natural Products, Inc. in 1946 to manufacture and sell a newly developed form of plastic: polyvinyl chloride (PVC). VPI Corporation company was reorganized as Vinyl Plastics, Inc. in 1951.

Herrenknecht AG was originally founded as Herrenknecht GmbH in 1977 by Martin Herrenknecht (the name was changed in 1998). Herrenknecht AG company manufactures tunnel boring machines that can bore through various geological conditions. Herrenknecht also offers consulting and site management services and collaborates with contractors to complete the excavation process. The company's business units include traffic and utility tunneling and geothermal explorations. Based in Schwanau, Germany, Herrenknecht serves several international markets through more than 40 subsidiaries operating in China, Russia, the US, and countries in Europe and other regions.

Rollstud Fastener Company is a leading manufacturer of studbolts, fasteners, and other precision components for the offshore oil and gas industry. The company makes, coats, and tests all of its products at its factories in Aberdeen, Dubai, and Hartlepool. To complement its main products, Rollstud also stocks a wide range of anchor bolts, hexbolts, and socket head screws, as well as flanges, gaskets, and pipe-to-pipe fittings.

Daktronics, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, marketing, and support of electronic display systems, as well as related products, maintenance, and professional services worldwide. Daktronics's products include sports products, such as indoor and outdoor scoreboards, timing systems, digit displays, sound systems, statistics software, and other related products; and automated rigging and hoist products comprising automated rigging systems, which complement arena center-hung scoreboard/display systems for small and large sporting facilities. It also offers video products consisting of displays, such as a number of pixels capable of creating various levels of video, graphics, and animation, as well as controllers that manage the operation of the display; commercial products, which include various indoor and outdoor applications primarily as graphics and text-based displays; and transportation products, including a range of LED-based display products for road management, parking, mass transit, and aviation applications. In addition, Daktronics provides software products, including Venus 1500 control software that allows the creation, display, and scheduling of dynamic text and basic graphics content on electronic displays; Venus 7000 display control system, which controls multi-color displays and video displays; and Visiconn control software that is used to display targeted messages to specific audiences and to control large networks of digital displays.

Lorin Industries anodizes aluminum coils and sheets and provides value-added services such as slitting and shearing. (Anodizing provides aluminum with a protective coating that controls oxidation.) The company's products are used in architectural, commercial manufacturing, and electronics applications. Founded in 1943 by Herb Kersman, Lorin Industries is owned by the Kersman family.

James Cropper plc are specialist paper manufacturers of low volume, high quality uncoated and deep coloured papers. We are paper manufacturers of distinction with all the knowledge, skills and craftsmanship gained in over 160 years of paper manufacturing and the paper supplies industry. As Europe's most modern coloured and specialist paper mill, James Cropper are paper suppliers in custom colours, weights or specifications, to any global destination.A policy of growth, investment and change over the years has enabled the company to remain independent paper manufacturers and become a paper mill pre-eminent in its field - providing a service for the production of coloured and specialist paper and board to a world-wide clientele.Whether specified for corporate literature; bespoke marketing material; high quality stationery, coverings for hardback books; uniquely engineered packaging; framing, display and archive storage; or for a specialised industrial use - the possibilities for this natural medium are boundless.

Kwikset makes the products that turn those pieces of wood into doors. A subsidiary of Stanley Black & Decker (formerly Black & Decker).Kwikset manufactures handlesets, levers, knobs, and deadbolts for commercial and residential use. The company's products are marketed in Asia, Australia, and North America under the brands Kwikset UltraMax Security, and the Kwikset Smart Series which includes the SmartKey, SmartCode, and SmartScan locks. Kwikset is part of its parent's Hardware and Home Improvement Group. Home Depot and Lowe's are Kwikset's largest customers.

Toray Plastics (America), Inc. is a subsidiary of Toray Industries, Inc., the world leader in synthetic fibers and textiles, carbon fibers, plastics, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and high performance films. Toray Industries, Inc. was established in 1926 as Toyo Rayon Company. Toray Industries, Inc. headquarters are located in Tokyo, Japan. Toray Industries, Inc. operates 127 facilities in 18 countries around the world with over 32,000 employees worldwide and annual sales exceed $13 billion, USD. Founded in 1985, Toray Plastics (America), Inc.'s capacity to bring polypropylene and polyester innovations to market has grown exponentially. Toray Plastics ( America ), Inc. is comprised of two locations, North Kingstown, RI and Front Royal, VA. The North Kingstown, RI facility is responsible for manufacturing oriented polyester and polypropylene films marketed to the magnetic tape, food packaging, capacitor and industrial markets. The Front Royal, VA plant is a global leader in manufacturing polyolefin foams for the automotive and flooring markets. To date, we have invested more than $650 million in our U.S. operations increasing our production capabilities by over 1000% in the past 20 years.

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