If you aspire to acquire wire, then Nexans may be the supplier you desire. The manufacturer of copper, aluminum, and fiber-optic cables and wires provides products for the infrastructure, industry, building, and local area network (LAN) markets. Nexans' main focus is in the energy infrastructure sector where its cables are used for power production, transmission and distribution. Its industry segment offers cables used inside vehicles or for oil and gas materials handling. Structures such as office buildings and industrial complexes also utilize Nexans' cables for Ethernet networks, and fire safety systems. Customers around the world include engineering companies, installers, power utilities, and wholesalers.

Acme Packaging Corporation, the inventor of steel strapping, has been a leader in packaging solutions since 1880 by offering our customers high quality, cost-effective products. Illinois Tool Work's acquisition of the Acme Business in 2003 provided our channel partners and end users with a more comprehensive product line that included steel strapping, plastic strapping, equipment and the application tools for each. Acme Packaging continues to provide the industry's leading distributor sales channel with product support to help ensure user satisfaction and help drive our growth.

Magneco/Metrel makes ceramics, but you won't find any artistic pieces at this company's plant! Magneco/Metrel uses the world's largest blast furnace to produce high-temperature refractory ceramics. The lineup serves as a lining in pipes and molds carrying molten iron and steel. The heat of molten steel would erode the pipes and molds without the ceramic barrier. Magneco/Metrel also makes a spray-on nano-particulate refractory line that can be used to create a liner for constructing or repairing steel-making molds and pipe. Its ceramics line is sold largely to steel foundries; other applications include ironmaking, glass, and copper. Magneco/Metrel was established in 1979 and is owned by CEO Charles Connors.

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.

Culp, Inc is one of the world's largest makers of furniture upholstery fabrics and mattress fabrics (known as ticking). Its upholstery fabrics include wovens (jacquards and dobbies), knits, screen-prints, and velvets (woven and tufted). Its fabrics are used in upholstering residential and commercial furniture such as recliners, sofas, and love seats. Its ticking is used for covering mattresses and box springs. Major customers include furniture makers Bassett, Furniture Brands International, and La-Z-Boy (12% of sales), and mattress makers Sealy and Serta. US customers account for about 80% of sales. Culp has eight manufacturing plants in the US, Canada, and China.

Bonney Forge makes a bonny line of products, including high quality forged and cast steel valves, fittings, and branch connections. In the US the company provides ferrous and non-ferrous branch connections, engineered specialty forged components, flanges, fittings, and piping systems and pressure vessels through its WFI International and RP&C subsidiaries. Bonney Forge also supplies forging and machining in Europe though its Italian subsidiary, Alco di Castronno. Bonney Forge company has expanded its reach through a joint venture based in Shanghai, China, to produce and sell cast steel valves in international markets.

OFS Fitel is looking for companies in need of a steady diet of fiber. Its fiber products include nonzero dispersion optical fibers, single-mode fibers, multimode fibers, and ocean fibers. OFS Fitel company sells its optical fiber under the AllWave, LaserWave, UltraWave, and TrueWave brands. It also sells specialty fibers such as carbon-coated and ribboned fibers. Furukawa Electric acquired the optical fiber cable business of Lucent Technologies (now Alcatel-Lucent) and formed OFS Fitel and its sister company, OFS BrightWave, which makes fiber-optic cable. OFS began as Western Electric Company, the manufacturing arm of Western Union, in 1869.

Indeck Power Equipment Company rents and sells steam-power systems and other industrial components used in the refinery, paper, textile, energy, chemical, manufacturing, municipal, food, and utility industries. Indeck, which was founded in 1960 as a boiler rental company, also sells water treatment systems, generators, HVAC systems, chillers, and auxiliary equipment. Although it's primarily a distributor, Indeck also manufactures water treatment systems, rebuilds steam equipment, and provides design and engineering services. Chairman Gerald Forsythe owns Indeck Power Equipment Company.

Gard Plasticases thinks "about" the box and what goes inside it. Gard Plasticases company manufactures plastic cases that can hold objects that range from eight inches to eight feet in size. Gard Plasticases makes executive cases (briefcases), flight cases, polypropylene boxes, and trunks. Other products include compartmentalized plastic boxes and petri dishes. Gard Plasticases also offers die-cut foam and vacuum-formed inserts to protect products housed within the company's cases, as well as silk-screen printing for labeling cases.

W. S. Darley & Co. company makes firefighting equipment, including pump and foam systems and fire trucks. Its extensive range of products includes emergency lights and sirens, fire protection nozzles and other gear, forest fire drip torches, hazmat equipment, rescue tools, and traffic cones. W. S. Darley, which has a track record of sizeable export and US Department of Defense (DoD) contracts, partners with Odin Foam (compressed air foam systems R&D), PolyBilt (truck bodies), and Ohler Pumps (centrifugal pumps). It ships its products to over 70 countries. Darley company has been family owned and operated for four generations.

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