RHI AG company is the world's leading manufacturer of heat-resistant refractory products. RHI's refractories are used in high-temperature industrial processes such as steelmaking, copper and aluminum smelting, and glass production, and in the construction of industrial kilns. Most of the company's refractory product sales (about 60%) are used in steelmaking. RHI has manufacturing and sales operations on five continents. Accounting for more than a third of sales, Western Europe is the company's largest market, but RHI has been working to spread out its production and its sales to other regions.

Dealing with CLARK Material Handling can be an uplifting experience. Founded in 1917 to make material handling trucks, CLARK has produced more than 1 million forklifts. Selling through its global network of 550-plus dealers, the company's line of forklifts includes internal combustion trucks, electric riders, narrow-aisle stackers, and powered hand trucks. CLARK also supplies aftermarket parts, as well as Totalift-brand parts to fit other manufacturers' forklifts. CLARK Material Handling company has more than 250,000 lift trucks operating in North America and more than 350,000 units globally. Young An Hat Company, a South Korean industrial conglomerate, controls CLARK Material Handling company.

Agri Pacific begs to differ. The wholesale distributor offers a slew of golf course and turf maintenance products. Agri Pacific company exports equipment parts and supplies by big names including Broyhill, Lely Pacific, and Stow, to fertilizers, chemicals, and amendments under labels such as Grow More and Spring Valley, irrigation products by 3M, Carson, and more, along with Kawasaki and Kubota small engines and parts, Accuride and Bridgestone tires, and turf supplies branded Keystone and Par Aide. Financing vehicles, available through Ex-Im Bank, have helped the California-based distributor grow its offerings and break on to the greens in Mexico and around the world.

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.

FiberMark makes its mark with flexible fibers. FiberMark company manufactures an array of fiber-based textiles and papers. Its capabilities range from papermaking to nonwoven production and converting processes, such as saturating and coating. FiberMark products are used in industrial and consumer markets: Office and school (pressboards and edge binding tapes); publishing (CD covers and carton stock); luxury packaging (book and box coverings); technical/industrial (jean labels, wallpaper, vacuum bags); graphic design (book covers); and crafting (textured paper). FiberMark company has seven manufacturing sites in the northeast US, and one in the UK. It is owned by American Securities Capital Partners.

Founded in 1998, SKYDEX Technologies company develops high-performance cushioning and protective materials designed to limit or absorb the negative effects of impact -- including blast, shock, and vibration limiting -- on the human body. SKYDEX's cushioning materials use polymers and proprietary geometric technologies (imagine two opposing halves of a ball squeezed together) to produce padding that works better than foams, gels, and other cushioning materials. Its materials are used in athletic, commercial, and military applications including footwear, helmets, bike and snowmobile seating, playground surfacing, protective gear, and automotive.

Toyo Seikan Kaisha has a can-do attitude. Operating through multiple subsidiary and affiliated companies, Toyo Seika rivals Japan's can makers, producing and selling containers, including bottles made from glass and plastic, such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), PET pouches, tin cans, and paper packaging products. Beverage can-making accounts for some 50% of sales. Toyo Seikan Kaisha company also contract manufactures aerosol cans, packaging machinery, and product filling. Toyo Seikan's Steel Plate operations make steel plate and allied processed materials. Japan is Toyo Seikan's core market. Founded in 1917, Toyo Seikan was first to domestically market oxygen scavenger sachets, a packaging material used to preserve food.

Fuel Tech, Inc. sells its NOxOUT brand of products, equipped with a retrofittable system, for the reduction of nitrogen oxide in boilers, incinerators, furnaces, and other combustion sources. Fuel Tech's NOx reduction technologies are installed worldwide on more than 450 combustion units, including utility, industrial and municipal solid waste applications. The air pollution control company also makes FUEL CHEM to reduce slag formation and corrosion in boilers and furnaces. Chairman Ralph Bailey and son Douglas Bailey, a director, together own almost 25% of Fuel Tech.

Steel Industries has been forging ahead as a steel producer for nearly a century. A portfolio company of the AmeriForge Group, it specializes in manufacturing open die forgings and seamless rolled rings. The company targets customers in aerospace, power generation, oil and gas, and transportation and industrial markets. Its on-site inventory supplies a breadth of grades in carbon and alloy, stainless, and tool steels and aluminum, as well as high temperature alloys. Its Michigan facilities tout a production capacity of up to 16,000 lbs. in custom open die forgings and up to 12,000 lbs. in seamless rolled rings. The company delivers heat-treating and rough machining for all of its forged shapes and sizes.

Defiance Metal, which takes its name from its headquarters in Defiance, Ohio, in fact is a precision fabricator of metal parts and assemblies. Its line runs from brackets and cases, to chassis, framing, housings, panels, and racks. In addition to fabricating and finishing sheet metal, the company also manufactures sheet metal forms. Defiance Metal's parts and assembly process begins with design and engineering, and moves on to CNC laser cutting, robotic welding, heavy stamping, and painting. Products cater to commercial and military vehicle, heavy-duty truck, and HVAC markets. The company is owned by an affiliate of the Weatherly Group, LLC.

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