KONE manufactures passenger and freight elevators, escalators, autowalks, and automatic building doors. It specializes in equipment installation (about 45% of sales), as well as maintenance (35%) and modernization (20%) services for buildings, whether office, hotel, residential, airport, or public transportation terminal. Projects have included Naberezhnaya Tower, Moscow; Swissetel, Chicago; Capital Airport, Beijing; and the New York subway, New York. The European, Middle East, and African region represents more than 60% of KONE's sales.

ADF Group designs, engineers, manufactures, and installs structural steel elements for non-residential construction applications such as skyscrapers, as well as provides engineering services. ADF has built commercial and sports complexes and public infrastructures, including the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum and the Columbus Center and the Freedom Tower in New York. The company also makes bolt and metal fasteners, provides metal surface treatment, and rents heavy construction equipment. Customers include general contractors and engineering firms, mainly in North America. The Paschini family owns the company.

The Techs company manufactures flat-rolled steel from massive steel coils that are processed through annealing, coating, surface conditioning, and tension leveling technologies. The Techs operate through three facilities: GalvTech, MetalTech, and NexTech; each runs its own plant for producing galvanized steel in an array of specialized gauges and widths. The Techs cater to a diversity of industries, from agriculture to automotive, HVAC, and consumer appliances. Among many, steel applications include grain bins, brackets, duct work, and mail boxes. The company is a subsidiary of Steel Dynamics.

Kian Ann Engineering Company distributes heavy machinery parts and diesel engine spares for bulldozers, excavation equipment, tractors, and other heavy equipment. Kian Ann Engineering company trades in such products as diesel engine components, electrical parts, filters, hydraulic pumps, transmission parts, and undercarriage hardware. Kian Ann serves equipment dealers and owners operating in industries including agriculture, construction, forestry, marine, and mining. Other operations include logistics and warehousing services. Customers in Singapore and Malaysia account for about 47% of sales. Kian Ann Engineering company has subsidiaries and joint ventures in China and Singapore.

WSI Industries, Inc. engages in precision contract metal machining business in the United States. The company offers metal components in medium to high volumes requiring tolerances in accordance with customer specifications. It primarily serves energy, recreational vehicle, aerospace/avionics/defense, and bioscience industries. WSI Industries company was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Monticello, Minnesota.

" Haskel International keeps up the pressure, not with the blatant insincerity of an unctuous high schooler named Eddie of "Leave It To Beaver" fame, but with its hydraulic and pneumatic high-pressure pumps, gas boosters, chemical injection pumps, and air-pressure amplifiers. It also offers BuTech high-pressure valves and fittings. A wide range of companies -- including those in the automotive, energy, aerospace, and military industries -- use the company's products in applications such as the pressurization, transfer, storage, and control of liquids and gases. Hamilton Sundstrand, a division of United Technologies, acquired Haskel in 2004.

Disc Graphics, Inc. company makes and prints paperboard-based packaging for home entertainment, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and related consumer goods markets. Its capabilities tap commercial printing to folding cartons, mini-flute corrugate, and foil stamping. Although Disc Graphics' name goes back to the 1970s in producing labels for vinyl records, Disc Graphics company today specializes in packaging for food and beverage to sporting goods, publishing for audio books, and vitamins. It touts sustainable practices including an eco-design packaging program and non-cellulose based (tree-free) paper. Chairman and CEO Donald Sinkin and private equity firm Main Street Resources hold majority stakes.

Parkdale America is a joint venture between Unifi and Parkdale Mills.Parkdale America produces cotton and synthetic yarns using open-end and air jet spinning technologies. Parkdale America's yarns are sold to US, Columbia, and Mexico apparel and textile markets under the Parkdale brand. Through a long-term agreement, it supplies all of Delta Apparel's yarn needs. Textile giants Parkdale Mills and Unifi combined their spun yarn assets and operations in 1997 to form Parkdale America. Managed by Parkdale Mills, the venture includes 12 manufacturing plants in North Carolina. Parkdale Mills holds a 66% stake in Parkdale America, and Unifi, a 34% stake.

Badger Income Fund serves contractors that really need to dig in. Badger's Daylighting (exposing underground infrastructure to daylight) business, specializes in non-destructive excavating services primarily for petroleum and utility contractors, but also serves the oil and gas pipeline, utility, transportation, industrial, and engineering sectors. Badger designs and manufactures truck mounted pressurized water and vacuum units used to safely expose utility cables and pipelines. The company's main product, the Hydrovac, is used to liquefy topsoil with a jet of water before the sediment is removed with a vacuum and held in a storage tank while work is being done. Canada accounts for over 60% of sales.

Established in 1973, Jablite rapidly grew into the UK's largest producer of expanded polystyrene (EPS) insulation products and developed Jablite into the brand leader. Since 1996, we've been a member of Synbra Group b.v, which operates with autonomous business units, putting us in the unique position of being able to respond quickly to our own local markets, whilst enjoying the added benefit of sharing the resources and technology of a major, global group. Today, the Jablite name is synonymous with quality, innovation and customer investment. Totally committed to the concept of a customer-supplier partnership, we work closely with you, the customer, to provide the products and services you require and, through continuous improvement, we develop new, innovative products as your needs change.

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