Timken Company tries to keep its bearings straight. Timken makes bearings that find their way into products from consumer appliances to railroad cars. It also makes power transmission components, from automotive gear shafts and connecting rods to aircraft engine components. In addition, Timken makes more than 450 grades of alloy and carbon steels, producing bars, billets, tubing, and custom components for automotive and industrial applications. It also offer power transmission components, lubricants, seals, and motion control systems. About 60% of sales come from the US. Five generations of the Timken family have served the company since its founding by one-time carriage maker Henry Timken in 1899.

Robert Family Holdings, Inc. (RFH, Inc.) is a global diversified industrial manufacturer of highly engineered value added products serving customers in the Semiconductor Packaging and Pressure Relief. RFH, Inc. is a privately held corporation with a global presence. Outstanding people driving highly engineered and value-added manufacturing: creating market advantages through product and technology leadership.

Wozniak Industries was founded in 1986 to provide OEM manufacturers with precision-engineered components that meet the most exacting standards for design, quality and on-time delivery. Wozniak Industries is a $100 million dollar family-owned and operated company, built upon family values. Two generations of the Wozniak family are deeply involved in managing the business and ensuring that it remains true to its founding vision and keeps its entrepreneurial spirit and passion for exceeding customer expectations alive.

Philips Lighting Business Unit Professional Luminaires North America (formerly The Genlyte Group) wants everyone to lighten up. The company, a unit of Dutch-based Royal Philips Electronics, is a leading North American designer and manufacturer of a wide range of indoor and outdoor lighting products for the incandescent, fluorescent, emergency, high-intensity discharge (HID), down lighting, medical, and commercial decorative lighting and niche markets. More than 80% of the company's products are made in its 35 North American facilities, and include brand names such as Bronzelite, Capri/Omega, Day-Brite, Lightolier, and Wide-Lite. The Genlyte Group was purchased by Royal Philips Electronics in early 2008.

From its start in 1956, Liquid Controls, a unit of IDEX Corporation (NYSE:IEX), has been dedicated to providing high quality flow meters and accessories for accurate liquid measurement in both custody transfer and process control applications. Continuously branching out from the original military aircraft fueling requirement which gave us our start, we now serve a wide variety of industries. Our manufacturing team is made of the most highly skilled craftspeople in the region, all working together each day to assure that personal care goes into each task that makes up an LC product. We rely on a strong combination of in-house engineered designs and a network of strategically located factory authorized full service distributors to ensure that our customers around the world are supported with technology tailored to each industry's particular requirements. Planned obsolescence has no part in our philosophy, and we at Liquid Controls are proud that our products, correctly installed and maintained, will provide years of dependable service.

Waukesha-Pearce Industries (also called WPI) is where WPI graduates and others can pick up the tools of their trade. The company's Engine Division designs and distributes engine-driven equipment, from power generators to pumps, blowers, and switchgear. Its Construction Machinery Division offers a slate of heavy construction and mining products, including earth movers and demolition equipment made by such OEMs as Komatsu and Gradall Industries. WPI also sells used equipment and leases heavy earth-moving equipment.

American & Efird (A&E) is a global manufacturer and distributor of industrial sewing and embroidery threads, and engineered yarns. Its products are used by both consumers and manufacturers of apparel, automotive materials, home furnishings, and medical supplies. In addition to threads and yarns, the company distributes cords, notions, twines, zippers, and related supplies made by other companies, such as YKK. A&E has 29 manufacturing plants and 68 service hubs, dotting more than 40 countries around the world. It is a subsidiary of Ruddick Corp., which also operates a chain of Harris Teeter grocery stores in the Southeast US.

Newark is proof that one man's trash is another's cash. The Group collects secondary fibers, and produces 100% recycled paperboard and paperboard products. It operates through three business units. The paperboard unit recovers some 3 million tons of paper annually, from corrugated containers, newspaper, and mixed paper. A converted products unit makes laminated papers, graphic board, tube, and solidboard packaging. Brands include Fiberwrap (paperboard), NewEx (graphicboard), and NewForm (concrete forms). Newark sells to paper and packaging, printing, and construction industries. The Group filed for Chapter 11 in mid-2010 and emerged from it later that year.

LaFrance Corporation is a recognized leader in the manufacture of high-quality nameplates. LaFrance's Benmatt Industries unit makes a range of customized products including key fobs, license plate frames, and trailer hitch covers that are used as promotional items by auto dealerships. The company's J.A.T. Creative Products division, which was set up in 2004, provides products to promote and advertise companies, organizations, and special events. LaFrance also operates PacTec, a producer of standard and custom modified plastic electronic enclosures. LaFrance has manufacturing plants in China, Japan, and the US.

WALTER AG company manufactures and sells industrial machining systems and metal-cutting tools. Its tool division makes carbide tools for boring, cutting, milling, and turning. WALTER also produces a line of tool data management software to aid in project planning and production. Founded in 1919, WALTER has operations worldwide. Sandvik AB owns about 96% of the company and groups WALTER under its Sandvik Tooling segment. In the interest of joint global marketing and sales, WALTER bundles Sandvik's PROTOTYP and TITEX brands under its corporate banner.

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