Established in 1956, Alcan Airex is the Switzerland-based specialty foam manufacturer for parent Alcan Composites, itself a subsidiary of Switzerland-based Schweiter Technologies. The closed-cell specialty foam producer's operations are organized into three business segments: display/creative sheet materials, sandwich core materials, and flexible foams for exercise and buoyancy products. Brand names include its FOREX display materials, FOAM-X foam boards, KAPEX copolymer foams, BALTEK end-grain balsa wood, and AIREX exercise products. Alcan Airex owns and operates two facilities in Switzerland. Europe accounts for the vast majority (around 70%) of the company's sales volume.

BuhlerPrince (formerly IdraPrince) manufactures die casting machines and automation equipment for such processes as casting ejection and die clamping. BuhlerPrince company's main product line includes horizontal cold-chamber and hot-chamber die casting machines. It supplies equipment to major automakers in the US. IdraPrince also services, upgrades, and rebuilds used die casting machines, even those manufactured by other companies. Originally known as Prince Machine, the company changed its name to IdraPrince in 2000 and to BuhlerPrince in 2006.

Reliance Steel & Aluminum shows its mettle by supplying metal processing services and distributing metal products to customers in the manufacturing, construction, transportation, aerospace, and semiconductor industries. Through a network of more than 200 service and distribution centers, Reliance provides customized metal processing services. From these locations the company distributes more than 100,000 products made of carbon, alloy, stainless, and specialty steel, as well as aluminum, brass, copper, and titanium. In the latter half of this decade, Reliance has gone on something of a spending binge, buying up a number of smaller rivals.

ENGEL AUSTRIA GmbH company is one of the world's largest manufacturers of injection molding and plastics processing machines, with nine production plants in Europe, North America, and Asia, and subsidiaries in 27 countries. Among its products are machines designed to process elastomers or rubber compounds, which are used for sealing, sound proofing, and shock absorbing. ENGEL serves five main industries: automotive (instrument panels), packaging (buckets and CD/DVD cases), medical (syringe parts), teletronics (cell phone parts), and technical molding (screwdrivers, shower heads, and gardening tools). ENGEL AUSTRIA GmbH was founded in 1945 by Ludwig Engel and is still 100% family-owned.

Albany International Corp makes paper machine clothing (PMC, custom-made fabrics and belts that move paper stock through each phase of production). It markets these products to paper mills worldwide through a direct sales staff. Its five business segments, which cover diverse industries, include PMC, along with Albany Door Systems (ADS, industrial fabric doors, such as aircraft hangar and dock doors); Albany Engineered Composites (AEC, for aerospace and high-tech applications); Albany Engineered Fabrics (EF, woven/non-woven fabrics for paper/tannery/textile industries, and building products); and PrimaLoft (synthetic down insulation).

AGY is a world leader in high performance materials used in a broad range of markets, including Automotive, Construction, Defense, Electronics, Aerospace, Marine, and Recreation. High performance materials in the form of glass fiber yarns and reinforcements provide our customers six vital enhanced properties:Strength, impact resistance, stiffness, temperature resistance, fatigue resistance and radar transparency.With a product portfolio developed for extreme performance utilizing a set of unique manufacturing platforms AGY provides tailored materials solutions to end use customers for the most demanding applications worldwide.

PPT VISION company makes machine vision systems, used by manufacturers to perform in-line quality-control test and measurement inspections and to collect statistical feedback. System components are made by third parties, freeing PPT VISION to build, integrate, and test its lineup. IMPACT branded products incorporate cameras, lights, computer hardware, and graphical programming software. PPT VISION sells to companies in diverse industries, such as automotive, electronics, medical, and pharmaceutical. Top customers include Abbott Labs, 3M, Altria, and United Technologies. Director Peter Peterson owns a controlling stake in PPT VISION.

Rockwell Automation, Inc. provides industrial automation power, control, and information solutions. Rockwell Automation company operates in two segments, Architecture & Software, and Control Products & Solutions. The Architecture & Software segment offers control platforms, which perform multiple control disciplines and monitoring of applications, including discrete, batch, continuous process, drives control, motion control, and machine safety control; software products, such as configuration and visualization software used to operate and supervise control platforms, advanced process control software, and manufacturing execution software that addresses information needs between the factory floor and a customer's enterprise business system; and rotary and linear motion control products, sensors, and machine safety components. This segment markets its products primarily under the Allen-Bradley, A-B, Rockwell Software, and FactoryTalk brand names. The Control Products & Solutions segment provides electro-mechanical and electronic motor starters, motor and circuit protection devices, AC/DC variable frequency drives, contactors, push buttons, signaling devices, termination and protection devices, relays and timers, and condition sensors; and value-added packaged solutions, such as configured drives, motor control centers, and custom-engineered panels for original equipment manufacturer and end-user applications. It also offers automation and information solutions, including custom-engineered hardware and software systems; and provides total life-cycle support services.

Nypro is the leading global solutions provider in the field of manufactured precision plastic products. We operate 44 locations in 15 countries, employing over 17,000 people. Sales for the most recent fiscal year were approximately $1.1 billion. Nypro's mission is "To serve our customers with integrated, innovative and environmentally sound manufacturing solutions, built on Nypro's global plastics leadership, creating value for our team members, communities and shareholders." As a vertically integrated leader in plastics manufacturing, Nypro offers virtually all aspects of the plastics production processes required by the world's leading companies, including product design and development, mold making and design, precision injection molding, advanced decoration, assembly, contract manufacturing for full-finished and shipped goods, supply chain management and diversity supply. Markets we serve include Healthcare, Consumer & Electronics and Packaging, along with additional markets through our strategic companies. Nypro's customer list includes the world's largest companies. Nypro has gained the trust of these leading companies through its commitment to achieving the highest levels of quality and employing the most advanced technology - and in many cases being the first to provide these services. Over the years, we have built factories next door to customers, published annual reports that open Nypro's books to customers, and recently reorganized the company into market-focused global business units that create direct interface between customers and Nypro managers at all levels.Perhaps our most unique offering is our OEM brand promise. Many of our global customers have engaged contract manufacturers to produce their products, only to find after a few years that the contract manufacturer takes accumulated experience and goes into business competing with the customer. We will not do that, and we never have. We make your products, just as you and your customers want them. That's our promise.

Ronile company manufactures custom-dyed accent yarns, including twisted, space-dyed, air-ply, and heatset yarns. Ronile's slew of finished yarn goods include nylon, polyester, acrylic, and other wool fibers, which are marketed to carpet, rug, home furnishings, craft, and automotive markets. Ronile also operates through subsidiary Bacova Guild, Ltd., a manufacturer and supplier of printed accent rugs, room-size rugs, and bath ensembles to US retail chains, and Gulistan, a division supplying broadloom carpet. Employee-owned, the company is led by its founder's son, Phillip Essig.

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