Established in 1976, SICK, Inc. operates and distributes its products throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico. The North American subsidiary of German-based SICK AG, makes a wide range of factory and process automation products, including bar code scanners; laser measurement system sensors; and photoelectric, luminescence and contrast sensors, which are used to count, inspect, measure, determine volume, and sort products during various phases of production, distribution, and sales. SICK targets the automotive, packaging, electronics, postal, consumer goods, food and beverage, robotics, and material-handling markets.

Huhtamaki has repackaged itself into a consumer packaging specialist. The Finnish company sells directly and through distributors to customers in the restaurant, fresh food, retail, pet food, and non-food consumer packaging markets. Its products include paper cups and molded fiber plates for McDonald's, Jason's Deli, and other food service customers; packaging for frozen food and deli items; disposable tableware; and flexible packages, pouches, and films. Huhtamaki's brand names include Bibo, Chinet, and Lily. Huhtamaki also supplies packaging systems and filling and sealing machinery.

Alfa Laval is all about valves and other industrial processing equipment. Alfa Laval AB company is organized around its three main product lines: separation (centrifuges), fluid handling (pumps and valves), and heat transfer (heat exchangers). Its equipment and services are designed to help optimize processes such as heating, cooling, separating, and transporting products (petrochemicals, chemicals, beverages, foodstuffs, and pharmaceuticals). The group introduces 25 to 30 new products each year, which are sold worldwide. Alfa Laval counts BASF, Bayer, Heineken, Shell, and Tetra Laval as customers. Gustav de Laval, who invented the centrifugal separator, founded Alfa Laval AB in 1883.

Nippon Sheet Glass (NSG) makes products for people who live in glass houses. Nippon Sheet Glass company makes glass and glazing products for the automotive, building products, and specialty glass markets; this includes flat glass, fiber optics, display glass, photovoltaics, and specialty glass fiber. Other product groups include safety and construction-material glass which includes tempered glass, water-repellent glass, laminated glass, self-cleaning, and vacuum glass. NSG also makes optical lenses, air filters, and battery separators. Customers include construction firms and electronics and automobile makers, primarily in Japan. As of June 2006 Nippon Sheet Glass company owns 100% of UK-based glassmaker Pilkington.

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.

The Krones Group, headquartered in Neutraubling, Germany, plans, develops, and manufactures machines and complete lines for the fields of process technology, bottling, canning and packaging, plus intralogistics. Every day, millions of bottles, cans and specially-shaped containers are “processed” on lines from Krones; particularly in breweries, the soft-drinks sector and at still-wine, sparkling-wine and spirits producers, but also in the food and luxury goods sectors, as well as the chemical, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Since being founded in 1951, Krones has evolved far beyond its original role as a mere producer of machinery and bottling lines. The company has meanwhile become an “all-round partner” for its customers, creating harmonious, optimised synergies of mechanical engineering, line-related expertise, process technology, microbiology and information technology. Today, Krones is synonymous with “systems engineering”.

Irving Polishing and Manufacturing company fabricates and polishes stainless steel fittings, filters, pumps, valves, and tubing for the beverage, biotech, pharmaceutical, and semiconductor industries. Products include long radius stainless steel plumbing elbows, manifolds, miniature fittings, special valves, tanks and Y joints. Irving Polishing and Manufacturing operates a 25,000 sq. ft. facility in an industrial park in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Silgan Plastics has defined the plastic bottling industry from technical innovation to creative packaging solutions. No matter what your packaging needs, Silgan can and will handle them. From creation to commercialization, our customized approach to each customer's requirements is what sets us apart from the rest. Have a special design need? Silgan will design it for you. We invite you to come to our Creative Design Center and watch your brand take shape. From Silgan's Commercial Development Center where concepts are created and tested, to our 21 production plants across North America, Silgan is your partner for packaging success.

Morgal Machine Tool, manufactures split steel pulleys, stamped metal sprockets, and contract stampings for more than 200 clients in the motor vehicle & transportation (seat frames, steering assemblies, suspension systems), agricultural and lawn & garden (sprockets and gears), bicycle, fitness, material handling (pulleys), and door operator industries. Morgal's four sister companies include Carmichael Machine, Ohio Stamping and Machine, Rose City Manufacturing, and South Carolina Metal Products. Morgal Machine Tool manufactures its products at a facility with over 100,000 sq. ft. The company was founded as a tool & die manufacturer by Frank Morgal in 1939.

Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG) is a world player in paper based packaging with leading market positions in Europe and in Latin America. With sales in 2009 of € 6 billion and around 38,000 employees, the Smurfit Kappa Group is a focused player in paper based packaging. Operating in 30 countries (21 in Europe and 9 in Latin America), it is the European leader in containerboard, solid board, corrugated and solid board packaging and has a key position in several other packaging and paper market segments including graphic board and sack paper. It is a market leader in corrugated in Latin America and occupies the number two position in containerboard there. Its Group headquarters are in Dublin with regional headquarters in Paris (Europe) and Miami (Latin America).

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