Aalberts Industries is an international group of industrial companies with two, mutually reinforcing, core activities: Industrial Services and Flow Control.The group companies are leading players in their respective markets and constantly strive to strengthen this position. The ways in which this is achieved include a continuous process of innovation in terms of products, systems and processes combined with a focused market approach. Aalberts Industries’ decentralised organisational structure in which responsibility for the day-to-day operations rests with the management of the groupcompanies stimulates entrepreneurship. Group company managements report business progress to the holding company on a regular basis. There is also frequent contact between the Management Board and the group company managements.Aalberts Industries continuously strengthens its leading market positions through a combination of profitable organic growth and the selective acquisition of complementary companies that fit within the strategy. Focused diversification, a steady increase in earnings per share and solid balance sheet ratios are key.Aalberts Industries has been quoted on the stock exchange since 1987. At the end of 2009 Aalberts Industries employed around 10,000 people who worked in more than 140 group companies in over 30 countries. Revenue for 2009 amounted to EUR 1,405 million.

Buschman makes wire-wound rods used in coating applications by the paper and converting industries. Buschman company controls all stages of manufacturing for its products, which include wire-wound metering rods, custom-engineered grooved metering and sizing rods, roll-formed rods, smoothing rods, holders, headbox sheets, and tapes for paper machinery and coating applications, as well as customized rods for specific machines. It also provides spare parts and accessories. Customers include 3M, Avery Dennison, Cascades, Hewlett Packard, Smurfit Stone, and Temple Inland, among others. Buschman company operates through representatives and distributors located worldwide.

CIRCOR International, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of valves and other engineered products and sub-systems. The company operates in three segments: Energy, Aerospace, and Flow Technologies. The Energy Segment offers flanged-end and threaded-end floating and trunnion ball valves, needle valves, check valves, butterfly valves, forged steel ball valves, gate valves, control valves, relief valves, pressure regulators, pipeline measurement, and pipeline closures for use in oil, gas and chemical processing, and industrial applications. This segment provides its products under the brand names of KF, Contromatics, Pibiviesse, Mallard Control, Hydroseal, Sagebrush, and Pipeline Engineering. The Aerospace segment offers precision valves, control valves, relief valves, solenoid valves, couplers, regulators, switches, DC electric motors, and aerospace landing gears for military and commercial aerospace applications. This segment provides its products under the brand names of Aerodyne Controls, Circle Seal Controls, Loud Engineering, Industria, Atkomatic Valve, Survival Engineering, Motor Technology, Bodet Aero, and Atlas Productions. The Flow Technologies segment offers precision valves, compression tube fittings, control valves, relief valves, butterfly valves, couplers, regulators, strainers, and sampling systems for instrumentation, cryogenic, and steam applications.

Fabrica International manufactures and markets high-end residential carpets and custom rugs. Products range from broadloom carpet products, carpet underlay, and handcrafted area rugs. Fabrica International offers a wide range of border rugs and design rugs for residential, motor coaches, and yachts. Its customers (including interior decorators, selected retailers and furniture stores, and luxury home builders) are found throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. The company accounted for 17% of The Dixie Group's total sales in 2008.

Sauer-Danfoss Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets hydraulic, electronic, electric, and mechanical components, as well as software and integrated systems that generate, transmit, and control power in mobile equipment. The company’s products include closed circuit axial and bent axis piston hydrostatic transmissions; open circuit piston pumps used to transform mechanical power from the engine to hydraulic power for various functions of the vehicle; open circuit gear pumps and motors; geroller and gerotor motors used for propel and work functions; hydrostatic steering units; spool type control valves; and cartridge valves and hydraulic integrated circuits. It also engages in designing, manufacturing, and marketing electronic controls, including microprocessor-based controllers, intelligent displays, joysticks, and electronic sensors. In addition, the company develops and licenses software that helps its customers in integrating components into systems, and in developing their own solutions. Sauer-Danfoss Inc. sells its products directly or through distributors to original equipment manufacturers of mobile equipment, including construction, road building, agricultural, turf care, material handling, and specialty equipment primarily in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. Sauer-Danfoss company was founded in 1986 and is based in Ames, Iowa. Sauer-Danfoss Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Danfoss AS.

Frain Industries company is the largest dealer of pre-owned packaging and processing machines in North America. Frain buys used machines, reconditions them, and then leases or sells the as-good-as-new pieces. Its short list includes case packers, centrifuges, cutting and slicing machines, dust collecting machines, extruders, grinders, kettle machines, liquid fillers, and scales. Providing installation, operator training, along with technical support is part of Frain's slate of services. The employee-owned company deals with start-ups as well as giants, such as Sara Lee, California Pizza Kitchen, and Pfizer. It is led by founder, Richard Frain.

The Eastern Company has latched on to the security industry. The Eastern company's security products group makes coin acceptors used in laundry facilities, smart card payment systems, and keyless locks sold under such brands as Sesamee, Presto, and Huski. It also manufactures industrial hardware, including latches, locks, and hinges, used by the transportation industry. Eastern owns a foundry that makes metal anchoring devices to support underground mine roofs, clamps for construction, and railroad brake system components. The company sells mainly to manufacturers, distributors, and locksmiths through its operations in the US, Canada, China, Mexico, and Taiwan.

Established in 1956, Alcan Airex is the Switzerland-based specialty foam manufacturer for parent Alcan Composites, itself a subsidiary of Switzerland-based Schweiter Technologies. The closed-cell specialty foam producer's operations are organized into three business segments: display/creative sheet materials, sandwich core materials, and flexible foams for exercise and buoyancy products. Brand names include its FOREX display materials, FOAM-X foam boards, KAPEX copolymer foams, BALTEK end-grain balsa wood, and AIREX exercise products. Alcan Airex owns and operates two facilities in Switzerland. Europe accounts for the vast majority (around 70%) of the company's sales volume.

Etteplan provides industrial engineering design services for large and mid-sized industrial companies. Delivery Design includes among its services mechanical, electrical, automation, and plant design and commissioning for equipment suppliers and plant operators. Product Development operates through long-term partnerships with clients. Etteplan also operates a laboratory that provides electromagnetic disturbance measurements. Etteplan focuses on clients in the automotive, equipment manufacturing, wood-processing, and electronics industries.

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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