The Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC) does just that -- manufactures machinery for the converting, packaging, printing, and laminating of paper. PCMC makes and sells equipment for tissue converting and packaging; wide-web flexo printing, coating and laminating; coaters; roll engraving; and non-woven converting. Its equipment is used by manufacturers of flexible packaging, non-woven disposable products (wet wipes), and sanitary tissues. PCMC has three production hubs in the US, UK, and Italy, as well as offices in Brazil, Germany, Italy, China, and Japan.

Channellock makes and markets 120 sizes and types of pliers, wrenches, screwdrivers, and other non-powered hand tools. Channellock sells its products to more than 4,000 wholesalers and retailers in the US and abroad. The signature color of the firm's tool grips is trademarked as CHANNELLOCK BLUE. It holds several other trademarks, such as PermaLock, LITTLE CHAMP, GRIPLOCK, and TOG-L-LOK, among others. Channellock, founded in 1886 by blacksmith George B. DeArment as the Champion Bolt & Clipper Company, is now run by the fifth generation of the DeArment family.

Hemiwedge Valve Corporation is a subsidiary of Hemiwedge Industries, a Texas based, global manufacturer and supplier of engineered valve products. In its 60,000 square foot, ISO 9001 and API Q1 approved machining and manufacturing facility, the Company manufactures the patented, proprietary Hemiwedge® Cartridge Valve product line. Hemiwedge Valve Corporation is committed to bringing innovative valve technologies to the global energy, process, power, mining, refining and pipeline markets. The Company maintains strategic alliances with several suppliers for custom sizes and accelerated delivery schedules and has teamed with some of the world’s leading engineered valve representatives to meet challenging valve needs in multiple industries. This includes an alliance with Enertech, a Curtiss-Wright Flow Control company, for product sales into nuclear power plant applications worldwide.

Nippon Carbon is a leading maker of graphite electrodes for electric arc furnaces. Steelmakers and other manufacturers use the furnaces to melt scrap metals. In addition to graphite electrode production, Nippon Carbon also makes fine carbon products for the semiconductor industry and carbon-based products for the auto industry. Other carbon products include graphite powder used in the cathodes of lithium-ion batteries and ultra-high heat-resistant silicon carbide continuous fiber. Nippon Carbon was founded in 1915 when it began producing natural graphite electrodes.

JinkoSolar Holding Company produces all the components to convert sunlight to electricity. It manufactures silicon wafers and uses them to make solar cells, which connect to form solar modules, the basis for solar power generation. Customers can buy any or all of the three components. JinkoSolar uses virgin and reclaimed silicon (about 50/50); it sources recovered material from outside suppliers and sells what it doesn't use. The Chinese company has about 450 customers in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. ReneSola, which accounts for about a third of sales, is controlled by the same family backers behind JinkoSolar, which went public in 2010.

Milacron retooled in the '90s to focus on plastics processing technologies and industrial fluids. It leads five businesses. The largest, a plastics machinery unit makes injection molding and extrusion processing equipment used to produce dashboards to decking. Uniloy churns out blow molding systems for packaging myriad goods, and DME, parts, such as mold bases, for plastics machinery. Other units, Cimcool supplies coolants, lubricants, and cleaners for metal grinding, machining, and stamping. Manufacturing parts for wind power, oil and gas, and heavy equipment is done by Milacron Precision Machining. North America is Milacron's core market.

Since 1982, Puckett Machinery Company has served as a Caterpillar dealer, owned solely by its chairman, Ben Puckett, Sr. Ben's son, Richard, is Puckett Machinery's president and general manager. Puckett Machinery Company operates equipment facilities in Brookhaven, Gulfport, Jackson, Hattiesburg, Meridian, and Natchez, Mississippi. Puckett Machinery sells and leases a slate of new and used Caterpillar equipment, generators, engines, and parts. It also offers forest products machinery, from Prentice knuckleboom loaders to Hydro-Ax feller-bunchers.

Kalamazoo Fabricating makes electrical panels, controls and drive components using its media blasting, painting facilities, and various lathes, mills, and saws. A division of Envirodyne Technologies, the company has expertise in the areas of custom equipment fabrication, coolant filtration, material handling systems, conveyors, and wash systems. Products are finished using dedicated media blasting (glass bead, sand, walnut shell, etc.) and paint. Kalamazoo Fabricating's installation of controls, drive components, and electrical panels take place at its plant's final assembly building. Industrial conveyor maker PRAB acquired Envirodyne in May 2008.

Makita UK makes power tools for professional builders and the consumer do-it-yourself market. The company's products include drills, rotary hammers, metalworking and masonry tools, screwdrivers, and woodworking machinery. Makita UK is a subsidiary of Japan-based power tool manufacturer Makita Corporation. The subidiary, which serves as the parent company's European headquarters, operates from administrative offices in Milton Keynes and a manufacturing plant in Shropshire.

Seika Corporation, part of the Mitsubishi group of industrial companies, imports and exports industrial machinery such as boilers, turbines, engines, water purifiers, measuring devices, and air compressors. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is its largest supplier, and companies in the utility and energy industries are its largest customers, although it also serves heavy engineering, environmental, textile, and chemical companies. Seika also installs and repairs the equipment it supplies. Europe, the US, and Southeast Asia are Seika's main export markets.

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