Cargotec’s daughter brands Hiab, Kalmar and MacGregor are recognised leaders in cargo and load handling solutions around the world. Cargotec’s global network is positioned close to customers and offers extensive services that ensure the continuous, reliable and sustainable performance of equipment.Cargotec’s technology leadership is based on close co-operation with the customers. Our R&D is the forerunner of innovative solutions that take environmental considerations into account. We care for the safety of the environment as well as the people using our products.Cargotec’s sales totalled EUR 2.6 billion in 2009. Cargotec Corporation Company employs approximately 9,500 people.By clicking on the navigating pane on the left, you can learn more about the side of our operations you are interested in. As you navigate these pages, you will find useful links on the right dealing with specific questions concerning the different sides of Cargotec.

Filatura di Pollone is the thread that runs through many textile products. The textile company makes natural and synthetic textiles and yarns for clothing and furnishings. Through the use of carded ultra-fine technology, the company produces extra-fine threads (twice as fine as traditional yarn) for use in high-quality clothing. With textile manufacturer Zegna Baruffa Lane Borgosesia, Filatura di Pollone operates a joint venture, Panital, in Hungary. The company has moved its production facilities to Poland and Hungary, where wage rates are lower than in Italy. The Maffeo and Botto families own 28% and 22%, respectively, of Filatura di Pollone.

Zumtobel can always see the light. Through its many subsidiaries, the Zumtobel Group makes light fixtures and light management devices with commercial, industrial, and residential applications. The Zumtobel subsidiary manufactures products for professional indoor lighting. Thorn Lighting Group makes light fittings used for indoor and outdoor lighting. TridonicAtco produces electronic and magnetic lighting components for the car industry. The company's ZLG subgroup includes its Reiss (OEM production) and Luxmate (digital and electronic lighting) operations. Zumtobel gets more than 80% of its sales in Europe. The Zumtobel family owns around one-third of the company.

Task Force Tips Inc. company manufacturers hand held and remote controlled fire suppression products such as nozzles, valves, and injection equipment that can deliver both water and foam. It also makes a wide range of repair kits for its various systems. Other products include nozzles capable of spraying de-icing fluids (glycol and water) to aircraft surfaces or putting out oil refinery fires. About 10% of the Task Force Tips' employees are active firefighters and some 20% have been firefighters at some time in the past. The company's global salesforce is represented in 30 countries, with about 30% of the company's sales being made outside the US.

Cookson Group plc, a materials science company, provides products, processes, and services to the ceramics, electronics, and precious metals markets worldwide. Its Ceramics division engages in the supply of advanced consumable products and systems to the steel and foundry industries, as well as specialty products to the glass and solar industries under the brand names of Vesuvius and Foseco. It also involves in the supply and installation of monolithic refractory linings. This division offers VISO and VAPEX products, slide-gate and tube changer systems and refractories, gas purging and temperature control devices, and mould and tundish fluxes to control, regulate, and protect the flow of steel in the enclosed continuous casting process. In addition, it offers castables, gunning materials, ramming mixes, pre-cast shapes, tap hole clay, bricks, and mortars; feeding systems, filters, metal treatments, metal transfer systems, crucibles, stoppers, sand binders, coatings, and molding materials to the foundry industry; and Solar Crucibles for use in the manufacture of photovoltaic panels and tempering rollers used in the glass industry. The company’s Electronics division supplies consumable electronic assembly materials to the assemblers of printed circuit boards and semi-conductor packaging industry; and advanced surface treatment and electro-plating chemicals for the electronics, industrial, and automotive industries. Its Precious Metals division offers fabricated precious metals, primarily gold, silver, and platinum to the jewelry industry in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Spain, as well as has precious metal refining and recycling operations in Europe. This division’s products include alloy materials, semi-finished jewelry components, and finished jewelry.

Terex ASV company uses rubber track suspension systems that make its vehicles operable in sand, mud, swamps, snow, slippery slopes, and rough terrain. Its Posi-Track (PT) Series and ST-50 Tracked Utility Vehicle, unveiled in 2008, are used for excavation and brush cutting, agriculture, fire fighting, snow clearance, and construction. Remote-controlled PTs are used in military applications to clear unexploded ordnance. Early in 2008 the company was acquired by mining equipment manufacturer Terex in a deal valued at about $488 million.

PCC Airfoils is a subsidiary of Precision Castparts, manufactures geometry blades, vanes, and vane segments used in the high-temperature turbines of commercial and military jet engines and power generation equipment. The company's products use both directionally solidified and single crystal casting to engineer the vanes, or airfoils, to withstand the increasingly high temperatures demanded by the aerospace industry. The temperatures are increasingly high as a result of the more and more common demand for higher performing and more fuel efficient aircraft. PCC Airfoils has manufacturing plants in the US, Mexico, and the UK.

Caterpillar dealership Cashman Equipment sells and rents Caterpillar-brand equipment, engines, power systems, parts, and work tools (bring your own cocoon). It also sells used Caterpillar equipment. The family-owned company serves construction, mining, and logging customers from 10 locations throughout Nevada and in California and Utah. Cashman company's Spectra Lasers, LLC division distributes Trimble grade, site, and laser control systems, as well as software. In 2008 Cashman acquired CPS, LLC, a distributor of Mitsubishi uninterruptible power supplies. Cashman Equipment was founded in 1931 by James "Big Jim" Cashman to provide Cat equipment to crews building Hoover Dam.

Gerresheimer Glass Inc. company, a subsidiary of German glass maker Gerresheimer Glas, manufactures glassware for use as pharmaceutical, scientific, and laboratory equipment. Products include injection vials, ampoules, screw-cap bottles, dropper bottles, flasks, check sets, pharmaceutical packaging, and disposable specimen containers. The tubular division manufactures tubing and rods. Gerresheimer Glass Inc. company operates in China, Europe, Latin America, and the US. Founded as Kimble Glass in 1901 by Col. E. Kimble, Gerresheimer Glass Inc.company became a part of the Gerresheimer Glas portfolio of companies in 1994.

Velocys is a chemical processor manufacturer that works with oil, gas, and fuel companies to provide them with cost-efficient technologies, methods, and services for their chemical processing, production system, and regulation system needs. Velocys also caters to the military by providing logistical supply lines, such as cryogenic cooling systems, man-portable devices, and protection from chemical attack. In late 2008 the UK's Oxford Catalysts Group acquired Velocys in a $35 million reverse acquisition. The two companies have been collaborating since May 2007.

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