Kaman Industrial Technologies (KIT) can help you get your bearings. As the industrial distribution arm of Kaman Corp., the company touts high-efficiency hybrid bearings, energy sipping motors, as well as biodegradable lubricants and process-optimizing condition-monitoring devices. The short list includes power transmissions, material handling equipment, motion control systems, and other electrical parts. KIT stocks more than three million items by brands such as Baldor Electric, Rockwell Automation, and Sumitomo. Serving some 50,000 customers in North America, KIT offers programs on energy audits, predictive maintenance, and OEM parts conversion. Its geographic footprint is growing through acquisitions.

Talan Products offers custom metal stamping, tube forming, and tube fabrication services; it also provides machine processing services such as bending, countersinking, drilling, and welding. Talan Products makes a range of tooling and engineered parts for customers in the automotive, construction, consumer appliance, defense, and hardware markets. Talan Products' primary business is mid- to high-volume metal stampings. Founders and company executives -- CEO Steve Peplin, president Pete Accorti, and manufacturing VP Pat Parziale -- own and run the company.

Herr-Voss Stamco (formerly Herr-Voss) makes and installs heavy industrial equipment, primarily for the metals processing industries. Its products include machines that cut, join, level, clean, and coat metals in coil or sheet form for use in metal-producing plants and forge shops. Herr-Voss also offers automated sheet packaging systems and coil-processing equipment components. It provides services such as roll grinding and reconditioning, as well as turnkey services from design and installation to start-up and training. Coil-processing giant Genesis Worldwide II combined Herr-Voss with Stamco in 2003.

Metalcraft of Mayville is a metal fabricator and industrial contract manufacturer that offers precision cutting, welding, pressing, shearing, machining services, and conventional and powder painting services. The company also provides complete product assembly services and bar coding. Metalcraft of Mayville's main facilities are in West Bend and Mayville, Wisconsin, and collectively span a whopping 630,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space, indeed a full-time matter.

Rollstud Fastener Company is a leading manufacturer of studbolts, fasteners, and other precision components for the offshore oil and gas industry. The company makes, coats, and tests all of its products at its factories in Aberdeen, Dubai, and Hartlepool. To complement its main products, Rollstud also stocks a wide range of anchor bolts, hexbolts, and socket head screws, as well as flanges, gaskets, and pipe-to-pipe fittings.

Couplings Company's products do help customers make the right connections with brass and nylon pipes, valves, and fittings. The company's products include a wide range of brass fittings made for air brakes, poly tubing, compressors, pipes, and garden hoses; as well as ball, needle, and shut-off valves; air and drain cocks; and copper, plastic, and rubber tubing. Other items include automotive brake lines, brass flare fittings, poly tubing, grease fittings, hose barb fittings, inverted flare automotive fittings, and radiant heater fittings.

Founded in 1978 as M & Ko Manufacturing, Ned Milicivic and David Ko built a reputation for excellence in manufacturing through value engineering and a technically enabled factory. For 23 years, M & Ko enjoyed the relationship as a tier 1 supplier to Medical OEM’s. Seamus Meagher joined the team serving as company president in 2000. In 2001, GCM Medical & OEM was established following the acquisition of M & Ko by GCM holdings LLC. Founders Milicivic, Ko and president Meagher re-acquired GCM Medical & OEM in 2006.GCM is headquartered in Union City, California, with 90,000 square feet dedicated to manufacturing services. GCM is a preferred supplier to OEM’s in Aerospace, Biotechnology, Data Communications, Industrial, Medical, Security, Semiconductor and Transportation. GCM offers Machining, Sheetmetal and Integration as core service solutions. Value-added services include new product introduction, supply chain management, and low cost region manufacturing in metals, plastics and plating.

Marangoni company makes and distributes retreading materials and machinery, as well as new and retread tires. Marangoni company also sells its Ringtread system to other tire retreaders. Marangoni sells its retread tires (for cars, off-road vehicles, and more) and new tire products primarily in Italy and other European countries. Other products include tires for industrial machinery such as for fork lifts, excavators, and loading machines. Products are sold both wholesale and through about 40 sales outlets. Marangoni company was taken private by management in 2002.

Loose wires can be problems in industrial applications; Loos wires, however, offer solutions to those critical safety and quality issues. Loos & Co. manufactures stainless steel wire rope, mechanical steel cable, cable assemblies, plastic coated steel cable, and related products. Customers draw from aerospace, agricultural, consumer products, marine, natural resource, and public utility industries. Moreover, its products meet a roster of military, OEM, and international specifications from Bombardier Aerospace and General Dynamics to Boeing. A network of distributors pushes the lineup. The privately held company was founded in 1964.

ACS Industries, Inc. is the world leader in engineered knitted wire mesh solutions. Founded in Providence, Rhode Island in 1939, American Copper Sponge, Inc. manufactured just that: knitted copper sponges. In fact, our original knitted wire mesh air and grease filters, first put to market in 1946, were originally products of excess knitting capacity. After experiencing heavy growth in the knitted wire mesh business unit and moving the corporate headquarters to Lincoln, RI in 1959, management changed the company’s name to ACS Industries, Inc. in 1960.Today, ACS Industries, Inc. leads the industry in knitted wire mesh technologies and is ready take on our customers’ most difficult and important projects. As the world’s largest vertically integrated knitted wire mesh manufacturer, we are able to offer competitive pricing and short lead times. In addition, we have worked extensively with automotive Original Equipment Manufactures (OEMs) and Tier I Suppliers, affiliations that require our quality control measures and standards to be second to none.ACS is a multinational organization. From our industry leading research and development lab and corporate headquarters in Lincoln, Rhode Island, to our production facilities in Monterrey, Mexico and Shanghai, China and our regional sales offices throughout the world we have assets in place allowing us to serve customers in every geographic region.

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