LaFrance Corporation is a recognized leader in the manufacture of high-quality nameplates. LaFrance's Benmatt Industries unit makes a range of customized products including key fobs, license plate frames, and trailer hitch covers that are used as promotional items by auto dealerships. The company's J.A.T. Creative Products division, which was set up in 2004, provides products to promote and advertise companies, organizations, and special events. LaFrance also operates PacTec, a producer of standard and custom modified plastic electronic enclosures. LaFrance has manufacturing plants in China, Japan, and the US.

Woods Equipment Company manufactures a broad line of mowers, as well as backhoes, posthole diggers, snow blowers, tillers, and other agricultural, light construction, and landscape implements. While most of its products are designed to be tractor attachments, Woods Equipment also makes self-propelled mowers and loaders. Brand names include Alitec, Gannon, Gill, Tisco, and Wain-Roy. Genstar Capital, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, acquired Woods Equipment in 2004.

Synseal Extrusions Ltd. company makes PVC profiles, gaskets, and associated components. Synseal's products are used by window, door, and conservatory and sunroom manufacturers throughout the UK. Synseal Extrusions company also makes roofing products such as cresting, eaves, glazing bars, gutters, and ridges. Its conservatories and sunrooms come in a ready-to-assemble kits. Products are sold under the Shield, Global, and SynerJy brand names. Customers include fabricator and installation services provider West Yorkshire Windows

The more industries there are, the more MOGAS Industries is in demand. MOGAS Industries, Inc. company makes severe-service metal ball valves for mining, power, process, and special industrial applications. Serving industries where ball valves have to function well in harsh environments, MOGAS Industries has experience in working with abrasive particulates, acidic anhydride, corrosive media, heavy solids build-up, and viscous sludge. The company's engineers visit a client's site, tour the plant's valve boneyard, and discuss plant operations with end user personnel as part of its overall design and manufacturing package. MOGAS Industries, Inc. company, founded in 1973, has sales and service representation in more than 40 countries.

Vatana Phaisal Engineering fabricates and installs sheet metal, structural steel, storage tanks, and industrial piping. It manufactures boilers and water tanks, and also provides plant shutdown and steam boiler repair services. It provides materials and services to chemical plants, power plants, refineries, and other industrial facilities in Thailand. Customers have included various divisions of Alstom, ABB, Foster Wheeler, and Mitsubishi. Vatana Phaisal Engineering operates from three fabrication plants --Samrong, Bangplee, and Khao Hinsorn -- located near Bangkok, and a services workshop in Nongbon. The company, founded in 1961, is part of the Vatana Phaisal group of industrial and engineering companies.

Makita UK makes power tools for professional builders and the consumer do-it-yourself market. The company's products include drills, rotary hammers, metalworking and masonry tools, screwdrivers, and woodworking machinery. Makita UK is a subsidiary of Japan-based power tool manufacturer Makita Corporation. The subidiary, which serves as the parent company's European headquarters, operates from administrative offices in Milton Keynes and a manufacturing plant in Shropshire.

Its carbon division manufactures carbon brushes and slip rings for motors, bearings and seals for chemical processing and fluid handling, body armor, graphite powder for synthetic diamonds, and carbon solutions for aerospace. Its technical ceramics push industrial ceramics from medical implants to power tubes used in airport security scanning devices, and aerospace components. Thermal ceramics make such heat insulation products as fiber, firebricks, and monolithics. Crucibles crown its work in molten metal systems. Morgan targets technically complex applications in energy, defense, and medical markets.

It makes Dr. Scholl's foot products, and Durex condoms (the top condom brand in the world). Merck & Co. (formerly Schering-Plough) owns the rights to the Dr. Scholl's brand in the Americas, but SSL owns it everywhere else. SSL also makes products tailored to regional markets. Its Mister Baby brand, for example, includes a line designed for infant care, sold solely in the UK. Likewise, its Sauber brand includes toiletries, hosiery, and creams targeted to the Italian consumer. SSL International gets almost 75% of its sales in Europe.

Paper is the apple of Appleton Papers' eye. Appleton Papers Inc. company manufactures specialty paper products through two divisions: technical papers and performance packaging. It is the world's #1 producer of carbonless paper; sold under the NCR Paper brand, carbonless paper is used in multi-part business forms (such as invoices). Appleton also makes security papers for government documents, and thermal papers used in coupons, gaming and transportation tickets, shipping labels, and medical charts. Performance packaging products include blown films and vacuum pouches used for packaging retail foods, medical goods, and industrial products. Customers in the US account for about three-quarters of sales.

Canrig Drilling Technology Limited Company is a leading supplier of AC top drives for deep-water drilling applications, as well as automated catwalks, floor wrenches, and control systems. It offers fixed and portable top drives in 175-, 275-, 350-, 500-, and 750-ton capacities for installation in most land-based and offshore rigs. Canrig, which was founded in Calgary, Canada, in the late 1980s, also provides engineering and field services throughout the world. A subsidiary of Nabors Industries, Canrig makes about 60% of its sales to other Nabors units. Canrig and Epoch Well Services, a drilling data and analysis supplier, merged in 2008.

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