Columbia-Staver Limited manufactures heat sinks, semiconductor manufacturing hardware, and precision metal pressings. The company's products include aluminum heat sinks, EMI/RFI screenings, clips, spacers, and other accessories used in the assembly of semiconductors. Columbia-Staver also designs fine blank multi-slide, multi-stage, transfer, and lamination tools. The company serves customers in the aerospace, automotive engineering, electronics, and technology manufacturing industries among others.

Saint-Gobain Containers is a glass act. Saint-Gobain Containers company is the #2 producer of glass containers in the US behind Owens-Illinois. Its glassmaking process includes melting, glass conditioning, forming, and annealing and coating. Its products mainly serve the food and beverage industry. Everything from apple juice and beer to pickles and barbecue sauce are sold in Saint-Gobain Containers' jars and bottles. Saint-Gobain Containers company is also a major user of recycled glass. Saint-Gobain Containers is part of holding company Saint-Gobain Corporation, which oversees the North American operations of French building materials giant Compagnie de Saint-Gobain.

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.

Defiance Metal, which takes its name from its headquarters in Defiance, Ohio, in fact is a precision fabricator of metal parts and assemblies. Its line runs from brackets and cases, to chassis, framing, housings, panels, and racks. In addition to fabricating and finishing sheet metal, the company also manufactures sheet metal forms. Defiance Metal's parts and assembly process begins with design and engineering, and moves on to CNC laser cutting, robotic welding, heavy stamping, and painting. Products cater to commercial and military vehicle, heavy-duty truck, and HVAC markets. The company is owned by an affiliate of the Weatherly Group, LLC.

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.

A combination of pioneering spirit and responsive market orientation has been the essential driving force behind the SCHAEFER group of companies for over 70 years. Years of experience, direct involvement in the world’s marketplace, and intense cooperation with customers are the foundation for our expertise and success. Today, with 16 production plants and a worldwide distribution network, Schaefer is a global player. Our products cross many markets, from industrial, trade and service sectors to consumers, research centers and local governments. Over 8,000 employees in the United States and abroad bring the Schaefer name to life. Our motivation, uncompromising customer service and precise application of the latest technologies enable us to provide highly efficient service close to the pulse of the market.

North Pacific Paper Corporation (NORPAC) company, a joint venture between Weyerhaeuser and Nippon Paper Group, produces newsprint for newspaper publishers and commercial printers. NORPAC manufactures a variety of different paper grades, including standard and lightweight newsprint and super- and ultra-lightweight stocks especially for the Japanese market. NORPAC company produces more than 250,000 tons of newsprint annually at its manufacturing facility in Longview, Washington. Its products are sent via truck and train to customers in the western US or are shipped by boat to customers in Japan.

Metcam has heavy metal skills. The precision fabricator of sheet metal parts offers assembly, metal finishing, plating, and stamping, too. Its fabrication services include stamping, deburring, hardware insertion, and machining. Laser cutting is set for high tolerance piercing of most materials and thicknesses. For jobs "on the fly," parts used in cutting are programmed to also run on Metcam's turret punching machines. Its metal finishing provides brush, conversion coating, paint, and silkscreen. Electromechanical and mechanical assembly services are also offered at its Georgia facility. The company's electronics and telecommunications customers include AT&T, Lucent, and Chicago's McCormick Place.

Precision Castparts Corp is a leading maker of investment castings used in jet aircraft, satellite launches, armaments, and medical applications (prostheses). Its Investment Cast Products segment makes jet engine parts, fluid management valves, and deep-hole boring tools. Forged Products and Fastener Products round out the company's three segments and cover the power generation and paper and pulp industries, as well as general industry. The cyclical aerospace market still accounts for more than half of PCC's sales. PCC's aerospace customers include jet engine makers General Electric (about 14% of sales) and Pratt & Whitney.

Russells Technical Products began when Russells Refrigeration Co., a commercial and industrial refrigeration sales and service company, was acquired in 1972 by Mr. Donald Bench. Since then, Russells has been designing and manufacturing environmental test systems and providing a comprehensive and varied product line including both pre-engineered and custom/specialty chambers. This has allowed Russells to attract and retain the technical expertise required in this field. Mr. Bench has been in the environmental test chamber manufacturing business since the 1950's starting with Conrad Inc., one of the original pioneering companies in this industry. Mr. Bench served Conrad as Chief Engineer and later becoming its President.Russells' management team has over 150 years experience in the design and manufacture of environmental test chambers and systems. Russells' personnel are qualified and skilled in all phases of the design and manufacturing process. Its business philosophy is to operate self-sufficiently in terms of utilizing modest but functional facilities and equipment to maintain a low overhead structure and enhance the value of its products. It owns its manufacturing facilities and capital equipment such as sheet metal fabrication, welding, electrical, refrigeration and painting equipment in order to maintain closer control and quality of these operations than if sub-contracted to outside suppliers.

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