SGSB Group Company's businesses include the production of office equipment, photographic film products, and industrial sewing machines, as well as foreign trade and logistics. Founded as two separate companies in unrelated industries (Shanghai Industrial Sewing Machine Company and Shanghai Movie and Photo Industry Company), the company has undergone several iterations before combining its operations and settling on its current name, just prior to its acquisition of D�rkopp Adler in 2005. SGSB is publicly traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Founded in 1985, Retrotech specializes in automated pallet handling systems. It provides consulting, maintenance, system design, and technical support services. Retrotech is an engineering firm that designs, makes, installs, and modernizes stand-alone and integrated automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) for distribution centers, plants, and warehouses. Its products include automated guided vehicles, automated racking equipment, overhead cranes and hoists, stacker cranes, and warehouse management software. Retrotech owns Woodson Company, a food and beverage AS/RS software and services provider. Customers include Proctor & Gamble and Cargill Meats.

Founded in 1990, KEM-TRON Technologies, Inc. operates a facility in Texas, and a service and maintenance hub in Russia. KEM-TRON Technologies is credited with developing a line of dewatering systems used in zero liquid discharge/closed loop mud systems. KEM-TRON company designs, manufactures, and distributes equipment for solids separation and polymer applications. Its multifunctional linear motion shaker/mud cleaner, used in mobile mud systems, touts simultaneous flow line running with hydro-cyclone underflow cleaning. Other products include a jet shearing and mixing system, integral to drilling rigs, and a vacuum degasser, to separate gases. KEM-TRON units are installed in some 30 countries.

FuelCell Energy, Inc. was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Danbury, Connecticut. FuelCell Energy, Inc. engages in the development and manufacture of fuel cell power plants for electric power generation primarily in the United States, Canada, Germany, Japan, and South Korea. Its core carbonate fuel cell products include Direct FuelCell or DFC Power Plants for stationary power generation applications. The company also develops carbonate fuel cell and planar solid oxide fuel cell technology. Its proprietary carbonate DFC power plants electrochemically produce electricity directly from readily available hydrocarbon fuels, such as natural gas and biogas fuels. The company serves manufacturers; mission critical institutions, including correction facilities and government installations; and hotels and customers, such as breweries, food processors, and wastewater treatment facilities, who use renewable gas for fuel.

Peak performance and strong global sales are the twin goals of Peak International, which makes plastic packaging products used to ship, store, and handle semiconductor devices and related components, as well as precision medical equipment. Peak's products include matrix trays, reels, and carrier tape; it provides design, prototyping, and tooling services. Its SemiCycle division collects Peak's plastic products, recycles, and sells them. Peak designs products to be used with automated production and testing equipment. It primarily operates in Asia, but it also serves customers in Europe and North America. Plastic extrusion firm S&G Company acquired Peak International in mid-2008 for about $25 million.

USHIO America discharges its duties by designing, manufacturing, and distributing discharge and halogen lighting. A subsidiary of USHIO, the company has an arsenal of over 4,000 general and specialty lighting products. Its main customers are in the biotechnology, electronics, image information processing, medical, and semiconductor industries. Ushio America's sister affiliate production bases include Ushio America-Oregon, USHIO Philippines, BLV Licht-und Vakuumetechnik GmbH, Taiwan USHIO Lighting, and USHIO Hong Kong. The company puts a high premium on the research and development of advanced photon and electron beam technology and their adaptation for use in industrial lighting and processing equipment.

Pacrim International Capital (PICI) is looking to the Pacific Rim for its future. A commercial and residential development heavyweight in Canada since 1990, the firm exited its Nova Scotia and New Brunswick hotel properties to pursue its Far East ambitions -- corrugated paper products and the packaging industry -- particularly in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China (also known as the "World's Factory"). PICI holds 46% stake in Wah Sang Paper Products; it holds an indirect interest in excess of 75% in the corrugated packaging company. PICI keeps its head office in Ontario, Canada, where it is listed on the Toronto stock exchange.

The John Henry of folklore may have been a steel-driving man, but The John Henry Company has a more delicate touch. It makes, prints, and sells specialty packaging to the floral industry (baskets, ceramic mugs, glassware, and wreaths), as well as personal note cards, envelopes, and plant tags. Since its start in 1912, the John Henry company has grown from plants to packaging. Through its John Henry Packaging Group, the company manufactures custom-designed blister packs, product labels and inserts, and cartons, coupled with a range of printing services, primarily for mid-size pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, and, to a lesser extent, food and beverage markets. Bear Stearns Merchant Banking owns the John Henry company.

Wakefield Thermal Solutions company designs, manufactures, and distributes thermal products and aluminum extrusions for removing heat generated by electronic equipment. The oldest and largest supplier of thermal management equipment in the US, its standard line includes extruded heat sinks, clamp systems, high-density extrusions, stack fins, and related devices. Wakefield caters to aerospace and defense, automotive, computer, construction, industrial control, telecommunications, and transportation applications. Since 2005, private equity firms Longroad Asset Management and Investors Endurance Capital have held respectively 65%/35% stakes in the company.

Vericor Power Systems manufactures, sells, and services power generating equipment, from gas turbines for marine propulsion to marine power gensets, gensets for cogeneration and power generation, and packages for mechanical drive. In addition, Vericor Power Systems offers a slate of site support, technical training, and specialty equipment services for its products. Its roster of customers includes, by and large, the US Navy, shipbuilders (ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems), building materials manufacturers (Sierra Pacific), and pulp and paper producers (Quebecor). Vericor operates as an affiliate of German aerospace gas turbine engine maker MTU-Aero Engines.

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