J C Bamford Excavators, commonly known as just JCB, is such a popular brand in the UK that its residents often substitute "JCB" for the word digger, the same way Americans use "Kleenex" for tissue. Best known for making backhoes, JCB produces a variety of heavy equipment used in construction and farming, including crawler excavators, backhoe loaders, front-end loaders, material handlers, and the speed tractor (the Fastrac, which moves at about 45 mph). JCB is Europe's largest maker of construction equipment. Subsidiaries JCB Finance and JCB Insurance Services, respectively, provide equipment financing and insurance for equipment and workers.

Materials Transportation Company was founded in 1946 to provide growing industries with safe, efficient, and economical methods for material handling. Since its inception, MTC has expanded from a small sales office in the Midwest to its current 150,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Temple, Texas. MTC manufactures a wide variety of material handling equipment for use in such industries as food processing, grocery distribution, clothing, pharmaceutical, and automotive, to name just a few.As a growing company, both in size and technology, MTC strives to meet the ever-increasing demands of industry by offering the complete sales, design, engineering, and manufacturing of a wide variety of material handling equipment. Currently MTC manufactures battery handling equipment and food processing equipment.

Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Power Generation Group (B&W NPG, formerly BWX Technologies) specializes in the management of nuclear materials, facilities, and technologies. It is part of B&W's Power Generation division which represents 75% of company revenues. Core activities include the fabrication of nuclear power generation components using applied mechanics, robotics engineering, and integrated CAD/CAM computer systems. The Canadian division of B&W NPG has provided nuclear services and more than 200 nuclear steam generators to clients around the world.

Holliston company produces fabrics for a myriad of coating applications. ICG/Holliston manufactures book cloth used to cover books ranging from best-sellers to textbooks and loose-leaf binders. Other products include cloth and vinyl substrates used for applications such as labels, cloth tapes, abrasive backing, and containers. Customers include the building materials, publishing, fragrance packaging, and album/looseleaf industries. The company, formerly Industrial Coatings Group (ICG), acquired Holliston Mills in 1998; both companies were founded in the late 1800s. The company has sold its sign and banner business line to Avery Dennison.

Bjerke Forgings makes close-die forgings, open-die forgings, and rolled ring forgings for customers in a variety of industries, including manufacturers of aerospace components, heavy machinery, and power generation equipment. The company forges its products from several types of steel, including alloy, carbon, stainless, tool, and other specialty steels, as well as from aluminum, copper, copper alloys, and titanium. Bjerke Forgings also provides machining, heat treating, and destructive and non-destructive testing services. Bjerke Forgings was founded in 1988 and is owned by president Dale Bjerke.

Highway engineer J. J. (Joe) Swanson and Wyoming contractor W. A. Norris founded Nebraska Machinery Company in 1938. Nebraska Machinery Company sells and leases new and used Caterpillar equipment through locations in Nebraska and Iowa. Besides the Caterpillar brand, Nebraska Machinery company sells other makes of equipment including Blue Giant, Hawker, Princeton, and Taylor-Dunn. NMC serves customers in the agricultural, construction, industrial, and material handling industries. It operates nine rental stores in Nebraska and Iowa. Nebraska Machinery opened a repair facility in Lincoln, Nebraska, to service highway truck engines.

Dopaco manufactures take-out containers for customers in the food service industry. Its lineup includes folding cartons, hot and cold beverage cups and accompanying lids and carriers, as well as cartons for fries, and clamshells and food trays for pizza and hot dogs. Dopaco company also touts customized packaging design services to meet menu and marketing requirements. Major customers include Jack in the Box, Burger King, McDonald's, and Wendy's. Based near Philadelphia, Dopaco has six plants in North America, and joint ventures in the US, Australia, Indonesia, and China. It is a subsidiary of Canadian paper-maker Cascades Inc.

Moyno, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and marketer of Moyno® progressing cavity pumps, sludge pumps, metering pumps, sanitary pumps, multiphase fluids transfer systems, grinders and controls. The company has an extensive worldwide stocking distribution network that serves a wide range of industries including water and wastewater treatment, pulp and paper, specialty chemical, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, mining, petrochemical, and oil and gas transfer.

Kinnevik never seems to get bored of the paperboard business. Investment AB Kinnevik is one of Sweden's largest holding companies. Through its Korsnos subsidiaries, the group makes paperboard, paper, liquid packaging board, and pulp products. It also has financial and farming operations, and holds substantial investments in several companies, including Tele2 (telecommunications), Modern Times Group (radio and television), Metro International (newspapers), Transcom Worldwide (CRM software), and Millicom International Cellular (international cellular service). In 2009, Kinnevik acquired its primary stakeholder, Emesco, in a complicated transaction that streamlined the Stenbeck family's corporate ownership.

Leatherman Tool Group can put the squeeze on many things in about 10 different ways. It makes about a dozen styles of folding pocket tools and a total of more than 30 products. Most of Leatherman's stainless-steel tools are a combination of pliers, blades, files, screwdrivers, pruners, and even a cork screw in some sets. Each of Leatherman's products carry a 25-year guarantee. It manufactures the compact Juice tool set to target a younger market and the upscale Argentum, designed by Argentine silversmith Adrian Pallarols, to attract the luxury niche. Since co-owners Tim Leatherman and Steve Berliner founded Leatherman Tool in 1983, the company has greatly expanded its initial Pocket Survival Tool concept.

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