Shinagawa Refractories company makes a comprehensive line of shaped and unshaped refractories. Its primary product is heat-resistant ceramic material. Shinagawa's diverse line of fire-resistant goods is used for industrial purposes, primarily by steel manufacturers. It designs and services industrial furnaces and licenses furnace technology. Shinagawa Refractories company also produces a line of fine ceramics and ceramic fibers. Shinagawa has nine affiliate businesses that provide related goods and services. Shinagawa has production facilities and marketing offices throughout Japan and sells its products worldwide.

Wastequip has been consolidating the waste disposal equipment industry since 1989; it owns about 35 waste handling equipment manufacturing plants in the US and Canada. Wastequip company provides large and small metal containers for on-site waste collection; balers and compactors for waste processing; and containers, trailers, hoists, and other mechanical equipment used for transporting solid, liquid, and hazardous waste. Its customers include solid-waste disposal firms, commercial businesses, and government agencies. Odyssey Investment Partners LLC controls Wastequip company.

Sappi Fine Paper, as evidenced by its passion for the paper business, has the wherewithal to be every bit as sappy as its magazine, book, and catalog customers. The coated fine paper producer touts a production capacity of 1.3 million tons of paper a year. Coated specialty and uncoated fine papers are also made. It stakes industry and sustainable firsts, under multiple brands, including the mill branded LOE (Lustro Offset Environmental) paper, the first premium sheet to use 30% post-consumer waste content. A coated paper, Tempo, courts the volume and color production demands of the digital age. Since 1994 Sappi Fine Paper North America has operated as a subsidiary of Johannesburg, South Africa, Sappi Limited

Aberdeen Fabrication (A-Fab) is steel going strong in the Granite City. Aberdeen Fabrication founded in 1983, fabricates steel components and pipe work and provides services such as installation, maintenance, and welding. A-Fab primarily serves the offshore oil and gas, marine, and steel fabrication industries. Its list of clients includes GlobalSantaFe, OBC Shipping, Technip Coflexip, Stena Drilling, and Transocean SedcoForex. The company has manufactured parts including submarine structures and skidding systems for offshore drilling rigs.

Sterner Automation is an engineering company that manufactures customized machine control products and automated process control systems. Sterner Automation designs, builds, programs, tests, and installs machinery used for manufacturing, personal computer control, and advanced motion control systems. Sterner Automation serves clients in the electronics and automotive industries. Sterner Automation also provides support services for its products including intallation, service repairs and calibrations, and other technical support. Sterner Automation's customers include CFM Corporation, Patheon, and Unilever.

Silgan Containers Corporation company, a subsidiary of Silgan Holdings, is one of North America's largest manufacturers of metal food containers. Its steel and aluminum containers and traditional and convenience ends are used by food processors to package fruit, vegetables, meat, coffee, soups, sauces, and other food products. Customers include Campbell Soup, Nestle, ConAgra, and General Mills. Silgan Containers, which operates about 30 manufacturing plants in the US, accounts for more than half of Silgan Holdings' sales.

Task Force Tips Inc. company manufacturers hand held and remote controlled fire suppression products such as nozzles, valves, and injection equipment that can deliver both water and foam. It also makes a wide range of repair kits for its various systems. Other products include nozzles capable of spraying de-icing fluids (glycol and water) to aircraft surfaces or putting out oil refinery fires. About 10% of the Task Force Tips' employees are active firefighters and some 20% have been firefighters at some time in the past. The company's global salesforce is represented in 30 countries, with about 30% of the company's sales being made outside the US.

Malin Integrated Handling Solutions and Design which began operating in the 1970s, also sells used and reconditioned lift trucks. Malin has sales and service locations throughout Texas and in New Orleans. Malin Integrated Handling Solutions and Design sells, services, and rents material handling equipment, including new and pre-owned forklifts made by The Raymond Corporation, sideloaders, pallet trucks, and related equipment such as batteries and chargers (EnerSys). It also stocks 4,000 line items of Raymond parts and provides access to more than 300,000 aftermarket parts for over 2,500 lift truck models through its aftermarket program (Lift Partners).

Roses Southwest Papers has bloomed in the desert Southwest by manufacturing napkins, tissue paper, and paper bags used in fast food restaurants and other places of business. The company's tissue products include bathroom tissue, center pull towels, facial tissue, fold towels, kitchen roll towels, jumbo roll tissue, and roll towels. Roses Southwest Papers also provides custom converting and private labeling services. Roses Southwest Papers, Inc. company counts McDonald's and Burger King among its major clients. Roses Southwest Papers is owned and operated by CEO Roberto Espat and other members of the Espat family.

Founded in 1926, G. W. Van Keppel has grown to distribute a slew of construction, aggregate, and material-handling equipment under blue chip brands, including Volvo, Hyster, and Champion Motor Graders. Customer needs are met from 15 locations crossing Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Texas. The G. W. Van Keppel Company also offers repair and maintenance services, rental equipment, and aftermarket parts for its equipment. G. W. Van Keppel is led by its founder's third generation, chairman and CEO Bill Walker.

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