Lorin Industries anodizes aluminum coils and sheets and provides value-added services such as slitting and shearing. (Anodizing provides aluminum with a protective coating that controls oxidation.) The company's products are used in architectural, commercial manufacturing, and electronics applications. Founded in 1943 by Herb Kersman, Lorin Industries is owned by the Kersman family.

PRAB (named after the first initials in the names of the company's founders) manufactures metal scrap reclamation systems and bulk material handling equipment. Its products include briquetting systems, conveyors, metal stamping scrap systems, and metal chip processing systems, which are used in the chemical, food processing, and pharmaceutical industries. Its Hapman division serves the pharmaceutical, chemical, food, plastics, packaging, mining and waste water treatment industries. Kalamazoo Acquisition, an investment firm led by PRAB's management, has acquired PRAB company and merged it with its newly formed Kalamazoo PRAB subsidiary.

Founded in 1923 when Christian Trumpf and his partners acquired a machine shop, TRUMPF burgeoned into a leading maker of production machinery. TRUMPF company operates through three divisions: Machine Tools/Power Tools (flexible sheet metal processing, bevellers, cutters, deburrers, fasteners, nibblers, seam lockers, shears), Laser Technology/Electronics (industrial lasers for cutting, welding, marking, and forming applications; laser generators), and Medical Technology (operating tables, surgical lights, ceiling mounts). It gets about 70% of its sales outside Germany. TRUMPF is managed and controlled by the Leibinger family.

Roses Southwest Papers has bloomed in the desert Southwest by manufacturing napkins, tissue paper, and paper bags used in fast food restaurants and other places of business. The company's tissue products include bathroom tissue, center pull towels, facial tissue, fold towels, kitchen roll towels, jumbo roll tissue, and roll towels. Roses Southwest Papers also provides custom converting and private labeling services. Roses Southwest Papers, Inc. company counts McDonald's and Burger King among its major clients. Roses Southwest Papers is owned and operated by CEO Roberto Espat and other members of the Espat family.

Quabbin Wire & Cable Co., Inc. is a privately held corporation founded in 1975 by Paul Engel. The factory and offices comprise a 140,000 square foot facility in Ware, Massachusetts, about a two hour drive west of Boston. Quabbin Wire & Cable employs approximately 100 people and has total annual sales of $25,000,000.

Bodycote Thermal Processing knows how to turn up the heat. The company, a subsidiary of UK-based Bodycote International plc, heat-treats metal components to improve their mechanical properties, durability, and wear resistance. Bodycote Thermal Processing processes aircraft and auto parts, sporting goods (golf clubs), and oil field, mining, and agricultural equipment. Its heat-treating processes include hardening, tempering, and annealing. The company doesn't sell parts, but its customers are primarily parts suppliers to manufacturers in the commercial aerospace, automotive, defense, and consumer products industries. It operates over 50 facilities throughout the US and Canada, with major operations in Texas and California.

Punch Graphix company designs and manufactures digital and prepress printing equipment, including color printing systems, software, and consumables, for the commercial printing and newspaper industries. Products are destributed by the company under the Xeikon (digital printing) and basysPrint (high-end offset prepress imaging systems) brand names. Punch Graphix, which changed its name from Punch Technix in 2007, is a subsidiary of Belgian industrial manufacturer Punch International.

Toromont Industries runs a heavy equipment business in a very compressed way. It distributes mobile equipment and industrial engines, and fabricates and installs gas compression units, energy process systems, and refrigeration products. The Equipment Group sells Caterpillar and other branded construction lines in Canada and the US. Activities include supplying power generation equipment, replacement parts, and support services, as well as renting heavy machinery. The Compression Group focuses on recreational and industrial refrigeration (used by the National Hockey League, and food-processors) through CIMCO Refrigeration, and hydrocarbon and petrochemical process systems and compression units through Enerflex.

Ziegler Inc. was founded in 1914 by W.H. Ziegler. Caterpillar dealership Ziegler Inc., also known as Ziegler Cat, sells and leases new and used Caterpillar brand equipment for multiple industries including construction, forestry, mining, and waste. With a large rural sales territory, Ziegler's also sells Challenger brand tractors and combines built by Agco Corp. (whose engines and components are made by CAT), and other ag equipment makers, as well as related industrial work tools. Sales are leveraged by stocking over 250,000 parts for Caterpillar and non-CAT equipment. Other services include product support and on-site maintenance.

Park-Ohio Holdings is driven to look for trouble. The holding company, operating through Park-Ohio Industries and its subsidiaries, troubleshoots industrial supply chain logistics issues and makes a slew of fasteners and other industrial components. Its work straddles three business segments. Supply Technologies sources and procures more than 175,000 production components for OEMs in industries ranging from automotive to aerospace. Manufactured Products produces specialized systems and parts used in such industrial applications as coatings, forging, oil and gas, and rail. An Aluminum Products unit casts and machines metal parts -- knuckles, oil pans, cylinders -- used by auto, agricultural, construction, and marine OEMs.

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