Komatsu America Corp. company, a subsidiary of Japanese construction equipment giant Komatsu (#2 worldwide after Caterpillar), manufactures, sells, and maintains earthmoving machinery for the North American construction and mining markets. Komatsu America divides its operations into utility equipment (compact construction equipment) and mining systems. Its products include dump trucks, backhoes, crushers, graders, hydraulic excavators, crawler carriers, wheel loaders, bulldozers, and a computer-based mine management system. Komatsu America Corp. company also provides financing, and rents and sells equipment through its sales subsidiaries and distributors.

Chairman DeWitt C. Thompson IV's grandfather founded Thompson Machinery in 1944. Thompson Machinery Commerce Corporation sells, rents, and leases Caterpillar-branded mining, industrial, agricultural, construction, and forestry equipment, as well as truck and marine engines and power generation equipment. The distributor serves about 100 counties in Tennessee and Mississippi. It has centralized warehouses in LaVergne and Memphis, Tennessee, and it operates sales, rental, and service centers and a fleet of field service trucks to handle its customers' job-site needs.

Lock Joint Tube manufactures mechanical and structural grade steel tubing for OEM and metal fabricators. The company's various sized and shaped tubing offers a breadth of applications, from bedside tables and wheelchairs to IV stands and hand railings used in medical facilities. Customers hail from the automotive, healthcare, office furniture, and exercise and display fixtures market. Lock Joint Tube is privately held by Lerman Enterprises (a network of four industrial metal companies), which also owns Indiana-based Steel Warehouse Company, Inc.

SystemOne Technologies, Inc. (STI) engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of recycling industrial parts washing products for use in the automotive, aviation, marine, and general industrial repair markets. SystemOne Technologies company’s product line incorporates resource recovery and waste minimization technologies to distill contaminated solvents. STI’s product lines include SystemOne general parts washer, which provides users with pure mineral spirit solvent for parts and tools cleaning purposes; SystemOne mobile washer, a mobile telescoping mini-parts washer; and SystemOne spray gun washer, for paint thinner recovery. SystemOne company sells its products primarily through automotive lubrication distributors and automotive services equipment distributors in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Mexico.

Lindsay Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells automated agricultural irrigation systems that are primarily used in the agricultural industry to increase or stabilize crop production while conserving water, energy, and labor in the United States and internationally. Lindsay Corporation company also manufactures and markets various infrastructure products. It operates in two segments, Irrigation and Infrastructure. The Irrigation segment manufactures and markets center pivot, lateral move, and hose reel irrigation systems, as well as various water pumping stations and controls. It also manufactures and distributes mini-pivots and hose reel travelers, as well as markets pivot monitoring and control systems, which include remote telemetry and a Web or personal computer hosted data acquisition and monitoring application. The Infrastructure segment offers Quickchange Moveable Barrier systems that help in highway reconstruction, paving and resurfacing, road widening, median and shoulder construction, and tunnel and bridge repairing. This segment manufactures and markets moveable barriers for traffic lane management, specialty barriers, and crash cushions; provides outsourced manufacturing services; and manufactures and sells large diameter steel tubing.

Plastic Suppliers is in the film industry, but you probably won't find a Cecil B. DeMille or a Robert Rodriguez wanna-be there. Plastic Suppliers, Inc. company manufactures and distributes a variety of plastic films, including coatable, printable, shrink label, packaging, and folding carton. Plastic Suppliers' slitting capabilities can handle widths from one-quarter of an inch to 80 inches. Plastic Suppliers, Inc. company operates two manufacturing plants in Ohio; it also owns regional distribution facilities throughout the US, as well as in Europe. Its specialty films subsidiary, Sidaplax, operates in Belgium.

AZZ incorporated manufactures electrical equipment and components for power generation, transmission and distribution, and industrial markets in the United States and Canada. It operates through two segments, Electrical and Industrial Products, and Galvanizing Services. The Electrical and Industrial Products segment produces specialty electrical products and industrial lighting and tubular products to distribute electrical power to and from generators, transformers, switching devices, and other electrical configurations. It also provides industrial lighting and tubular products for petro-chemical, industrial, petroleum, and food processing industries. This segment sells its products through manufacturers representatives, distributors, agents, and internal sales force. The Galvanizing Services segment provides hot dip galvanizing to the steel fabrication industry. This segment serves fabricators or manufacturers that provide services to electrical and telecommunications, bridge and highway, petrochemical, and industrial markets, as well as original equipment manufacturers.

Plastipak Holdings, Inc. company produces 8 billion-plus plastic containers a year for consumer products' manufacturers. Containers are used to hold beverages (soft drinks, water, juices, and beer); cleansers (laundry soap, household cleaners); processed foods (coffee creamer, salad dressing); hygiene (mouthwash, perfume); and industrial and automotive goods (motor oil, windshield washer fluid). Plastipak Holdings company serves multi-national, established companies, such as Procter & Gamble, Reckitt Benckiser, Kraft Foods, Quaker Oats, Kroger, and Tropicana. Plastipak operates in the US, Europe, and South America. It is owned and led by the Young family.

Graham Corporation takes the biscuit when it comes to helping companies make beer, soap, and other products. Graham Corporation makes equipment -- such as vacuum systems, pumps, compressors, and heat exchangers -- which is necessary to the manufacturing processes for petroleum, plastics, chemicals, food processing, and other industrial products. The company sells its products directly and through independent sales representatives worldwide. About half of Graham's sales are generated outside of the US.

Axus Technology, LLC company sells and customizes state-of-the-art surface processing equipment. Primarily serving clients in the semiconductor manufacturing industry, Axus Technology helps customers find, adjust, and customize machinery used for polishing, grinding, and lapping. Axus company's equipment engineering services include creating modifications for existing equipment designed to address new processes, unusual material handling requirements, or to improve productivity. Axus Technologies also provides installation and maintenance services.

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