Thermo King Corporation company manufactures transport temperature control systems and HVAC systems for trailers, truck bodies, buses, shipping containers, and rail cars. Produced at 10 plants in seven countries, the lineup is marketed worldwide through a global dealer network. In addition to its line of new systems, Thermo King offers used and remanufactured refrigeration units to customers. The Thermo King concept was conceived in 1938 by Frederick Jones and Joseph Numero, who needed a way to transport fresh chickens across long distances without spoiling. Thermo King Corporation is now part of Ingersoll-Rand Climate Control Technologies, a division of Ingersoll-Rand.

Adolph Wurth GmbH & Co. markets and distributes more than 100,000 products in more than 80 countries through its Wurth Line and Allied Companies (companies trading under their own name). Wurth's more than 400 companies manufacture products including screws and fasteners, hand and power tools, insulation, personal protection equipment, and automotive products such as paints, lubricants, and oil, fuel, and air filters. The company also sells heating and drinking-water pipes, as well as offers heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning installation services.

Amcor Packaging Distribution offers its goods as a package deal. Amcor company designs, manufactures, sells, and distributes a slew of corrugated products, from cartons and stock boxes to janitorial products and promotional items, as well as industrial- and custom-corrugated packaging and equipment. Its lineup is used for goods in nearly every North American industry: agriculture, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, technology, and automotive. Amcor Packaging Distribution maintains plants and distribution centers in the US and Mexico. Formerly Amcor Sunclipse North America, Amcor's US arm operates with Amcor Australasia (Australia and New Zealand fiber, glass, and aluminum beverage can businesses) as one division.

Parker Hannifin HPD (formerly Denison International) helps provide the power needed to scoop, lift, or move just about anything. Parker Hannifin company designs, manufactures, and services a slew of hydraulic components, from pumps to motors, manifolds, and valves, used in motion and control technologies and systems. Applications for its lineup include machine tools, material handling equipment, trucks, as well as construction, agricultural, and utility mobile machinery, and military equipment. Its customers include OEMs and their after-sales markets, such as Caterpillar, Volvo, GE, and the US Navy. Parker Hannifin purchased Denison in 2004, and integrated Parker Hannifin company into its Hydraulic Pump Division two years later.

Founded in 1924 by A.F. Siebert, Milwaukee Electric Tool operates as a subsidiary of home improvement tool maker Techtronic Industries. Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation company manufactures and sells cordless drills, impact wrenches, chop saws, and rotary hammers, all branded with a red lightning bolt. Its 500-plus heavy-duty to portable tool lineup is marketed to professional cabinetmakers, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, remodelers, and welders. The weekend handyman also can find Milwaukee Electric Tool products and accessories at Lowe's Companies, The Home Depot, and comparable do-it-yourself (DIY) centers.

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.

NIBCO controls the flow of liquids. NIBCO makes flow-control products such as pipes, fittings, and valves made from bronze, copper, stainless steel, PVC, thermoplastics, and other materials. Its products include DURA-PEX piping systems, Chemtrol flow-control fittings, radiant heating equipment, and press-to-connect fittings and valves. Customers include construction, irrigation, residential, environmental, and industrial buyers throughout the world. It has more than 10 manufacturing plants in the US, Mexico, and Poland. In business since 1904, NIBCO was founded by Casper Schweitzer and is still owned by his descendants (the Martin family) and NIBCO employees.

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.

PAK 2000 has business brand management for the new millennium, well, in the bag! The New Hampshire-based company makes luxury shopping bags and premium packaging (gift bags and custom-cut boxes), for major perfume lines, such as those produced by Cartier, Estee Lauder, and Ralph Lauren, and up-scale retailers. Satisfying environmental concerns, PAK 2000 offers jute and cotton bags, and biodegradable sacks. PAK 2000, Inc. company also manufactures plastic security bags, such as forensic evidence bags, and safe deposit bags used by financial firms and law enforcement agencies. PAK 2000 operates production facilities in the US, Europe, and Asia; sales are driven directly to customers worldwide.

Scot Forge forges ahead in the manufacturing of open-die and rolled-ring forgings used for couplings, drive shafts, flanges, heat exchanger bodies, and ship shafts. The employee-owned company's customers are in the construction, defense, energy, general industrial machinery, power generation, and shipbuilding industries. A signature product is the Tartan Bar -- not a Scottish candy, but solid-center, rolled-surface round bars of metal. Scot Forge has a specialty alloy services team to help customers select specialty materials for open-die forgings and rolled rings. The manufacturer, which ships more than 250 million pounds of forgings a year, was founded in 1893.

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