ABB is short for A Bunch of Businesses -- though that bunch has evolved over some 130 years. ABB engineers power and automation technologies for a broad base of utility, industrial, and commercial customers. Its lines run from robots to light switches. Power products include transmission and distribution components, as well as turnkey substation systems. Automation technologies are used to monitor and control equipment and processes in industrial plants and utilities. The company has established a presence in about 100 countries, with its core businesses concentrated in power and automation markets. In 2009 developing geographies represented more than 50% of ABB sales.

SAGE Electrochromics is wisely repaning the future. SAGE Electrochromics company develops residential and industrial "smart" windows that darken or lighten through the use of low-voltage DC power. Its main focus is on the commercial market and selling architects on using branded SageGlass products in their designs. SAGE's windows can be operated by using a dimmer switch, remote control, or central energy management system to control how much sunlight and solar heat enters the home, office, or car. The adjustable tinting level varies from dark to light. The US Departments of Commerce, Energy, and Defense, as well as the National Science Foundation, support SAGE's development efforts. John Van Dine founded SAGE in 1989.

Vatana Phaisal Engineering fabricates and installs sheet metal, structural steel, storage tanks, and industrial piping. It manufactures boilers and water tanks, and also provides plant shutdown and steam boiler repair services. It provides materials and services to chemical plants, power plants, refineries, and other industrial facilities in Thailand. Customers have included various divisions of Alstom, ABB, Foster Wheeler, and Mitsubishi. Vatana Phaisal Engineering operates from three fabrication plants --Samrong, Bangplee, and Khao Hinsorn -- located near Bangkok, and a services workshop in Nongbon. The company, founded in 1961, is part of the Vatana Phaisal group of industrial and engineering companies.

Crane & Co.'s early claim to fame was Paul Revere engraving banknotes on its paper during the American Revolution. Today, Crane company manufactures US currency paper and fine cotton papers used for business and personalized stationery, such as wedding invitations and thank you notes. Its nonwovens division makes paper-like materials, under brand names Craneglas and Cranemat, which are used in products ranging from automobiles to satellites. Crane & Co. has manufacturing operations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and internationally in Sweden. Crane company is owned and managed by the seventh generation of the Crane family. Private equity firm Goldberg Lindsay & Co. also holds a minority stake.

Strongwell has been pultruding fiber reinforced polymer composite structural products since 1956. Today, with more than 66 pultrusion machines and 647,000 square feet of manufacturing space in three plant locations, Strongwell has unequaled capacity, versatility and flexibility to meet the needs of its customers and allied partners. All Strongwell pultruded products are made in the USA. Strongwell company is financially strong, total quality oriented, technically advanced, and customer focused. Strongwell's customers include Fortune 500 industrial and commercial firms, major architectural and engineering firms, leading contractors and distributors, and many other companies - both large and small - in a variety of markets.

EXEL Industries cautions you to say it and spray it. EXEL, formerly known as Groupe Exel, manufactures and distributes an array of sprayers used to protect plants in commercial farming and consumer gardening, as well as materials in industrial processing. EXEL Industries company's sprayers range from handheld tools to ones mounted on wheels with a compressor powered by a 2.5 horsepower Honda motor! Among EXEL's multiple brands are Tecnoma, Hardi, and Berthoud. EXEL Industries company also carries Kremlin-branded spray guns for applying paint, adhesives, and other surface finishes. EXEL subsidiaries dot more than 20 countries, driving revenue directly and through a sales network. Top customers include Renault, Caterpillar, IKEA, Valeo.

The Watts Group provides services to the transport industry with a network of commercial vehicle dealer locations in South Wales and the South Midlands. It also has two successful manufacturing businesses producing urethane and other specialist products. The Watts Group comprises 7 companies and employs over 300 people and is passionate about its businesses and responsibilities. Established in 1851, the Watts Group is still a family-owned business and the head office remains in the Gloucestershire town of Lydney, where it was first founded. It has a proud history and an enviable reputation built on more than a century of innovation and achievement.

Asahi Glass Company shatters the conventional image of glassmakers. The world's #1 maker of flat glass also claims the top spot in automotive glass, plasma display panel substrates, and fluorinated resins. Glass for construction, automotive, and other applications account for half of Asahi Glass' overall sales. The company's Electronics and Display division makes high-purity silicon carbide and synthetic quartz glass for semiconductors and glass substrates for LCDs, while its Chemicals unit manufactures soda ash, caustic soda, and other specialty chemicals. Subsidiaries include US-based AGC America and French glassmaker Glaverbel.

H. O. Penn Machinery dates back to 1921, when Hamilton O. Penn, Frank Ginsberg, and E. Gwynn Robinson established the Ginsberg-Penn Co. in Manhattan's Hudson Terminal; the company's name was changed to its present form in 1926. H. O. Penn Machinery is owned by the Cleveland family. Caterpillar dealership H. O. Penn Machinery Company supplies Caterpillar-branded construction equipment, paving equipment, generators, industrial engines, and truck and marine engines. It also offers rental fleet services, parts, and used equipment. The company operates from half a dozen offices in lower New York and Connecticut.

James Cropper plc are specialist paper manufacturers of low volume, high quality uncoated and deep coloured papers. We are paper manufacturers of distinction with all the knowledge, skills and craftsmanship gained in over 160 years of paper manufacturing and the paper supplies industry. As Europe's most modern coloured and specialist paper mill, James Cropper are paper suppliers in custom colours, weights or specifications, to any global destination.A policy of growth, investment and change over the years has enabled the company to remain independent paper manufacturers and become a paper mill pre-eminent in its field - providing a service for the production of coloured and specialist paper and board to a world-wide clientele.Whether specified for corporate literature; bespoke marketing material; high quality stationery, coverings for hardback books; uniquely engineered packaging; framing, display and archive storage; or for a specialised industrial use - the possibilities for this natural medium are boundless.

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