Abrafab was founded in 1985. Abrafab manufactures coated abrasive industrial supplies -- no wand necessary. Abrafab company's products include belts, flap wheels, and abrasive discs. Manufacturers in a range of industries use its products to clean, grind, polish, and sand such materials as metal, plastic, rubber, and wood. Abrafab's customers are based primarily in North America, served by a network of industrial distributors. Customers may also place orders online, through Abrafab's Web site. Abrafab company is ISO 9001-certified for total quality control.

Founded in Germany in 1909 by Anton Piller, Piller Industrieventilatoren GmbH is now owned by the families of Bernd Klostermann and managing director Nils Englund. Piller Industrieventilatoren makes fans -- not the kind that scream at celebrities, nor the kind that ladies use to gently create a breeze, but the kind used in industrial furnaces, power and evaporator plants, and industries ranging from food to textiles to petrochemicals. Piller also offers installation, maintenance, repairs, and remote diagnosis. Piller Industrieventilatoren company has offices and representatives in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and the US. Exports account for more than half of sales.

AP Wagner company distributes parts for consumer appliances such as refrigerators, air conditioners, dishwashers, washing machines, and dryers. It distributes parts from more than 150 manufacturers, including Maytag, GE, and Whirlpool. AP Wagner operates stores in the northeastern US and Canada. The company was founded as The Buffalo Washing Machine Repair Co. in 1928 by Frank and Clara Jarmusz, grandparents of the current owners, Donald and Michael Jarmusz. The company later became Wagner Appliance, which merged with Appliance Parts Distributors in 1995 to form AP Wagner.

Briggs & Stratton Corporation designs, manufactures, markets, and services air cooled gasoline engines for outdoor power equipment worldwide. It operates through two segments, Engines and Power Products. The Engines segment offers engines primarily for various lawn and garden equipment applications, which include walk-behind lawn mowers, riding lawn mowers, garden tillers, and snow throwers; and industrial, construction, agricultural and other consumer applications that include generators, pumps, and pressure washers. It also manufactures replacement engines and service parts. This segment sells its products directly, as well as through sales and service distributors. The Power Products segment offers portable and standby generators, pressure washers, snow throwers and lawn and garden powered equipment. It sells its products through various channels of retail distribution, including consumer home centers, warehouse clubs, mass merchants, and independent dealers under the Briggs & Stratton, Brute, Craftsman, Ferris, Giant Vac, John Deere, Murray, Simplicity, Snapper, Victa, and Troy-Bilt brands. Briggs & Stratton company serves original equipment manufacturers. Briggs & Stratton company has a strategic relationship with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for the distribution of air cooled gasoline engines manufactured by MHI in Japan under Briggs & Stratton's Vanguard brand. Briggs & Stratton Corporation was founded in 1908 and is based in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.

Canrig Drilling Technology Limited Company is a leading supplier of AC top drives for deep-water drilling applications, as well as automated catwalks, floor wrenches, and control systems. It offers fixed and portable top drives in 175-, 275-, 350-, 500-, and 750-ton capacities for installation in most land-based and offshore rigs. Canrig, which was founded in Calgary, Canada, in the late 1980s, also provides engineering and field services throughout the world. A subsidiary of Nabors Industries, Canrig makes about 60% of its sales to other Nabors units. Canrig and Epoch Well Services, a drilling data and analysis supplier, merged in 2008.

ATS is an industry-leading automation solutions provider to many of the world's most successful companies. ATS uses its extensive knowledge base and global capabilities in custom automation, repeat automation, automation products and value-added services including pre-automation and after-sales services to address the sophisticated manufacturing automation systems and service needs of multinational customers in markets such as life sciences, chemicals, consumer products, electronics, food, beverage, transportation, energy, and oil and gas. Founded in 1978, ATS employs approximately 3,500 people at 26 manufacturing facilities and 47 offices in North America, Europe, Southeast Asia and China. The Company's shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol ATA.

Scot Forge forges ahead in the manufacturing of open-die and rolled-ring forgings used for couplings, drive shafts, flanges, heat exchanger bodies, and ship shafts. The employee-owned company's customers are in the construction, defense, energy, general industrial machinery, power generation, and shipbuilding industries. A signature product is the Tartan Bar -- not a Scottish candy, but solid-center, rolled-surface round bars of metal. Scot Forge has a specialty alloy services team to help customers select specialty materials for open-die forgings and rolled rings. The manufacturer, which ships more than 250 million pounds of forgings a year, was founded in 1893.

A123 Systems wants to get people all charged up about new cars. And it plans to use rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to do it. The company develops and manufactures rechargeable batteries and battery systems for the transportation, consumer, and electric grid markets. A123 is targeting the fast-growing electric and hybrid electric vehicle market. In the electric grid sector, the company is working with AES to produce multi-megawatt battery systems that take the fluctuations out of the electricity grid and provide backup power during shortages. In consumer products, its batteries are used in home appliances, power tools, and electronics. More than half of sales come from customers in the US.

Consider flexible packaging and specialty papers maker Packaging Dynamics. Its BagcraftPapercon unit converts paper, film, and foil into food packaging such as bags and wraps, butcher and freezer paper, pan liners, and tissue. International Converter produces adhesive and film extrusion lamination materials for making decorative cartons, bags, cans, and goods for consumer, medical, and industrial purposes. Thilmany Papers makes specialty lightweight papers for a diversity of packaging, pressure sensitive, and industrial uses from sandwich wraps and microwave popcorn bags to baggage tags and tapes. Packaging Dynamics is a portfolio company of Kohlberg & Company.

RoboGroup T.E.K. Ltd. is a global, diversified enterprise with proprietary technologies on the forefront of robotics, motion control and technology education. RoboGroup company has taken its engineering and management expertise in the fields of automation, motion control and algorithmic functions and developed several businesses related to these technologies.

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