Kesla was established in 1960. Kesla manufactures equipment for the forestry industry. Among its products are log loaders, forest trailers, harvester heads, chippers, stroke delimbers, and access platforms. Brand names include Patu, Foresteri, Scanlift, and Patu Lift. Kesla also sells used equipment. The Finnish company operates four factories in Joensuu, Keselahti, Ilomantsi, and Tohmajervi, and exports its products to more than 30 different countries.

Fab Industries produces warp and circular-knit fabrics, raschel laces, and laminated fabrics. Fab sells its fabrics and laces to manufacturers of swimwear, intimate apparel, sleepwear, and sportswear. The company also makes blankets, sheets, and other bedding, as well as home furnishings for mail-order companies, airlines, cruise lines, and hospitals. Fab Industries, which operates manufacturing facilities in New York and North Carolina, sells its products in the US and abroad through a network of sales representatives. President Steven Myers and his wife Beth (daughter of Samson Bitensky, the company's founder) own the company through their firm, Ssjjj Manufacturing.

Buhler Industries Inc. (TSX: BUI) is headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Established in 1932 as an agricultural equipment manufacturer, the original company was purchased by John Buhler in 1969. Through steady expansion, new products and acquisitions, the company has experienced progress and steady growth. Over the years, many brands have joined Buhler Industries: Farm King, Allied, Inland and Versatile. Today Buhler Industries operates several modern manufacturing plants and distribution centers. Factories in Morden and Winnipeg, MB, and Fargo, ND, build tractors, front-end loaders, augers, compact implements and more. Buhler Industries maintains several well-stocked parts warehouses.In 2007, Combine Factory Rostselmash Ltd, a major combine manufacturer located in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, acquired 80% of the common shares of Buhler Industries. With additional investment in engineering, research and development and production, the company is moving forward. The dealer / distribution network in North America remains unchanged, but the Rostselmash network of more than 200 dealers in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan now has access to the products built by Buhler Industries. Buhler Industries remains committed to continuous product improvement and incorporating new value-added features. That tradition of excellence will continue well into the future.

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.

Formed four decades ago, the Bradman Lake group specialises in the design, development and manufacture of packaging machinery to a wide range of global organisations. With an impressive product portfolio, comprising the world-renowned brands of Autowrappers and Europack, Bradman Lake can offer stand alone or fully integrated systems custom-engineered to meet the exacting standards demanded by today's fast moving consumer markets worldwide.Today, the Bradman Lake group is a 21st century technology focused organisation operating from its headquarters and manufacturing plants in the UK and USA. With regional offices in China and Russia and representatives and partners worldwide, Bradman Lake ensure that every client's brand and product line are equipped with the best packaging equipment and service available.

There's a "whole lotta shakin' goin' on" at Alfa Laval Inc. The subsidiary of Sweden-based Alfa Laval AB makes separators (centrifuges), heat exchangers (evaporators and condensers), decanters, tank equipment, pumps, and valves under brand names Contherm, Merco, Sharples, and Tri-Clover, among others. Alfa Laval's products are used in a host of industries, from dairy and food processing to petrochemicals and steel manufacturing. Alfa Laval Inc. company also offers spare parts, reconditioned heat exchangers, and round-the-clock equipment-monitoring systems. Alfa Laval Inc. company has 14 locations in the US, including six manufacturing facilities, an international distribution center, and seven service and repair centers.

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.

Mercury Marine company manufactures marine propulsion systems and related engine items, including Mercury and Mariner outboards, Mercury MerCruiser sterndrives and inboards, Mercury and Typhoon propellers, Mercury Racing products, inflatable boats, and jet drives. Mercury Remanufacturing offers replacement parts and service, too. Mercury Marine has manufacturing locations throughout the US, as well as in Belgium, China, Japan, Mexico, and the UK. It is part of the Brunswick Corporation's family of companies.

Saint-Gobain Containers is a glass act. Saint-Gobain Containers company is the #2 producer of glass containers in the US behind Owens-Illinois. Its glassmaking process includes melting, glass conditioning, forming, and annealing and coating. Its products mainly serve the food and beverage industry. Everything from apple juice and beer to pickles and barbecue sauce are sold in Saint-Gobain Containers' jars and bottles. Saint-Gobain Containers company is also a major user of recycled glass. Saint-Gobain Containers is part of holding company Saint-Gobain Corporation, which oversees the North American operations of French building materials giant Compagnie de Saint-Gobain.

Refractron Technologies Corp. is a leading manufacturer of technical ceramics. Products include both controlled porosity and densely structured ceramics designed to meet requirements specified by our customers for durability, chemical, corrosion and wear resistance, toughness, and density. The range of dense, structural ceramics using proprietary zirconia ceramics includes custom blended ceramic alloy powders formed by isopressing or extrusion to meet customer specifications. Refractron’s zirconia is offered in two materials Magnesia Partially Stabilized Zirconia, Mg-PSZ and Yttria Tetragonal Zirconia Polycrystal, Y-TZP. Refractron’s structural ceramic zirconia materials provide excellent erosion, corrosion and abrasion resistance along with temperature resistance, fracture toughness and strength. Numerous applications for these materials are in the chemical and petrochemical industry providing economic payback in the way of reduced maintenance and down time. Zirconia is also used for components in healthcare and dental applications. The types of dense, structural ceramic components produced by Refractron include: valve components, pump liners, plugs, sleeves, pistons, precision ceramic balls, spools, press tooling, dental blanks and extrusion tooling. The range of Refractron porous ceramics include monolithic and membrane components made from aluminum oxide and silicon carbide. The strong, uniform porous ceramic has 40-50% open porosity with a tortuous pore structure and is available in pore sizes ranging from 0.25 to 90 microns. The types of porous ceramic products include membrane and monolithic tubes, discs, plates and other components where tightly controlled pore size and porosity is critical. Filtration is a common application where porous ceramic is used for catalyst recovery, hot gas, liquid backwash, solvent filtration, coalescing and solids recovery in chemical process, water and mining industries. Diffusion or sparging using porous ceramics to produce fine bubbles is another typical application as high gas transfer efficiencies are achieved with the fine, uniform pore structure. Other specialty porous ceramic products include a range of wicking & dispersion parts, vacuum chucks, fluid bed plates, inkpads, gas probes and a range of adsorbent filter/drier cores for refrigeration applications.

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