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.

Quorum International makes decorative residential-lighting fixtures and ceiling fans. Quorum company, which claims the position of being the world's largest fan and lighting fixture maker, also makes ceiling mounts, chandeliers, entry lighting, pendants, outdoor lighting, track and recessed fixtures, vanity lighting fixtures, wall mounts, and sconces. Additionally, it manufactures door chimes and lampshades. Quorum International markets its products throughout the US as well as Central America and the Caribbean.

InterfaceFLOR is flooring its customers with carpet tile. InterfaceFLOR is the largest modular carpet maker in the world, offering "free-lay" carpet to businesses, government and education entities, retailers, and hospitals. Its sister company, FLOR, offers a residential do-it-yourself carpet line sold throughout the US at Lowe's, Design Within Reach, and some 160-plus specialty retailers. The company's flooring systems consist of carpet tiles cut in squares or rectangles and laid to resemble traditional carpet. Interface chairman Ray Anderson brought modular carpet to the US from Europe in 1973 when he founded predecessor company Carpets International.

Matrix Marking specializes in electronic systems designed for tagging and tracking surgical equipment and other small components. Matrix Marking company's Identimark reader uses a camera to identify a pattern of small dots that has been imprinted onto a metal surface using a method called dot-peening. The code can contain such information as the name of the hospital where an instrument was originally used or what procedure the instrument was last used to perform. Matrix Marking's system is also used in the automotive and aerospace industries to label components using a durable marking method. Customers include Aventis, Bosch, GlaxoSmithKline, and Nokia.

The Tullis Russell Group comprises 3 manufacturing companies which operate on their own, and in conjunction with each other, to produce some of the finest quality papers in the world. This approach reflects our commitment to developing an integrated papermaking and converting business, which can offer our customers the highest possible levels of service and technical expertise. In addition the Group has wholly owned sales and distribution companies in Asia, Benelux, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain and the USA. As well as being a significant supplier to the UK market, we are major exporters and supply our products in over fifty countries around the world.

Pridgeon & Clay (P&C) rivals the metal forming industry. An independent manufacturer and supplier of stamped and fine blanked components, the company designs and produces an array of parts for auto assembly plants across the US. Its made-in-the-US (China and Hungary, too) lineup includes steering column lock nuts, brackets for headlights to engines, control arms, flanges, exhaust parts, and muffler shields. Stamping equipment runs from fine blanking presses to high tonnage and progressive presses. P&C touts hand assembly, spot welding, and tapping services, along with a global sales force. Founded in 1948, the company is led by the son of its co-founder, Donald Clay.

Sappi Fine Paper, as evidenced by its passion for the paper business, has the wherewithal to be every bit as sappy as its magazine, book, and catalog customers. The coated fine paper producer touts a production capacity of 1.3 million tons of paper a year. Coated specialty and uncoated fine papers are also made. It stakes industry and sustainable firsts, under multiple brands, including the mill branded LOE (Lustro Offset Environmental) paper, the first premium sheet to use 30% post-consumer waste content. A coated paper, Tempo, courts the volume and color production demands of the digital age. Since 1994 Sappi Fine Paper North America has operated as a subsidiary of Johannesburg, South Africa, Sappi Limited

Sta-Rite Industries, Inc. company manufactures pumps, water systems, filters, and accessories, which it sells in more than 100 countries. Sta-Rite manufactures its products for two distinct markets: pool and spa customers and residential, commercial, and municipal water supplies. It operates domestic plants in California; Nebraska, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin, and international facilities in Australia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and New Zealand. Founded in 1934, Sta-Rite was part of Wisconsin Energy's WICOR subsidiary until it was acquired by water products company Pentair in 2004.

Dietrich Metal Framing, a Worthington Industries Company, is the leading manufacturer of light-gauge framing and finishing products, systems and services for commercial and residential construction. Dietrich offers the largest selection of light-gauge framing and finishing products including drywall and structural framing, floor joists, roof trusses, metal lath, fire-rated assemblies, numerous deflection systems and an extensive line of metal, vinyl, veneer, paper-faced, plaster and stucco beads and trims.

Pentaflex (named in part after its five original investors) flexes its muscles as a manufacturer of metal stampings. The company operates hydraulic presses, mechanical presses, and steelweld presses to make its metal stampings. It also uses such methods as heat treating, painting, and plating. Customers include companies which design and make axles, brakes, clutches, transmissions, and wheel and drive line components for heavy trucks. Pentaflex also sells metal stampings to the agriculture, automotive, lawn and garden, and the industrial markets. The company was founded in 1972.

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