Preferred Utilities Manufacturing was founded in 1920. Preferred Utilities Manufacturing's business is divided into five units: Preferred Instruments makes instrumentation and control systems for combustion applications; Preferred Engineering provides support for nuclear power plant outage activities; Preferred Utilities manufactures fuel oil handling equipment; Preferred Services offers field services related to commissioning new combustion systems and instruments, as well as maintenance and calibration of existing systems; and W.N. Best Combustion makes burners for firing natural gas, fuel oil, and waste liquids.

Founded in 1985, Retrotech specializes in automated pallet handling systems. It provides consulting, maintenance, system design, and technical support services. Retrotech is an engineering firm that designs, makes, installs, and modernizes stand-alone and integrated automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) for distribution centers, plants, and warehouses. Its products include automated guided vehicles, automated racking equipment, overhead cranes and hoists, stacker cranes, and warehouse management software. Retrotech owns Woodson Company, a food and beverage AS/RS software and services provider. Customers include Proctor & Gamble and Cargill Meats.

Feralloy Corporation, a subsidiary of Reliance Steel & Aluminum, processes and distributes a slew of carbon steel plate, bar, and structural and flat-rolled products. Typical services include slitting, pickling, temper mill/rolling, leveling and blanking, and cutting. Feralloy operates five plants in the US. It manages multiple facilities in the Midwest and Western US, and Mexico through various joint ventures with companies including U. S. Steel, Signode Corporation, United States Steel International and Mitsui Steel, and Oregon Steel Mills Processing. Feralloy's customers are primarily steel producers and manufacturers. Feralloy joined the Reliance Steel & Aluminum family in 2008.

Quipp, Inc. company makes post-press newspaper-handling equipment that stacks, wraps, bundles, and loads newspapers. The company's Twin-Trak and Quipp-Gripp III conveyors move newspapers from the press to the mailroom, where the Viper wraps them in paper and adds identification labels. Stackers mechanically stack newspapers, and cart-loading systems automatically load the papers onto trucks. Computerized monitoring systems control the handling process. Quipp boasts more than 500 US and international customers; newspaper publisher Gannett accounts for about 10% of sales. Acquired in 2008, Quipp operates as a subsidiary of industrial behemoth Illinois Tool Works.

Eliza Tinsley has a long history as a supplier of more than 3,000 products such as chain, hand tools, hardware, padlocks, and rope for the DIY, building, and garden markets. The manufacturer declared bankruptcy and went into administration in early 2006, falling victim to the rising cost of materials and a lack of operating cash. It sold its construction equipment business to Olympic Steel, and its metal fabrication plant in Evenwood, UK, went to a management buyout. Eliza Tinsley emerged from bankruptcy in 2006, when its remaining assets were acquired by the Atlantic Group, an Indian firm with interests in consumer products and textile manufacturing, among others.

Owens-Illinois, Inc. is the world's largest glass container manufacturer, with more than 22,000 employees in 21 countries. The $7.1 billion company is headquartered in Perrysburg, Ohio, U.S.A., and holds market leadership positions in each of the four regions in which it operates - Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America. O-I glass containers protect the purity, quality and flavor of thousands of well-known food and beverage products, including beer, wine, spirits and non-alcoholic drinks.

Molins PLC company makes tobacco and packaging machinery, but in the face of declining tobacco machinery orders, Molins has shifted its focus from manufacturing to servicing machinery already in place. Molins company's packaging machinery division make systems for consumer goods. Its operations include Langen (cartoning and case packing machines), Molins Food Machinery (tea bag machines), and Sasib (specialist machinery). Products include resealable bags for snack foods and bags with plastic valves for dispensing pharmaceuticals. Investment firm Schroders owns 28% of Molins PLC.

Vulcan International Corporation, a holding company, engages in the manufacture of rubber and foam products. Vulcan International Corporation company operates through two segments, Rubber and Foam, and Real Estate. The Rubber and Foam segment produces foam products, uncured rubber, and other rubber products. It offers rubber sheet stock and custom-mix materials for use in the manufacture of footwear, sports flooring, novelty items, recreational land and water vehicles, and automobile mats. The Real Estate segment engages in the ownership and lease of three office buildings located in Cincinnati. It also owns undeveloped lands in Michigan from, which it sells timber. Vulcan International Corporation company sells its products in the United States through its sales force, manufacturers' agents, and distributors. Vulcan International is based in Wilmington, Delaware.

Named after scientist/founder Arthur H. Thomas, the company, formed in 1900 and better known as Thomas Scientific, is one of the oldest and largest distributors of scientific laboratory equipment in the US. It shelves an array of beakers and bell jars, centrifuges, hydrometers, microscopes, and test tubes. In addition to equipment, the company supplies the chemicals used in laboratory research. Customers range from public schools and government agencies to cosmetic, food and beverage, and petrochemical businesses around the world. Equally vital, distribution partnerships are cultivated with equipment makers, including Shimadzu Scientific Instruments.

The Harris Products Group is master of the tool. A merger of J.W. Harris Co. and Harris Calorific, the Group manufactures gas welding and cutting machines along with a breadth of equipment needed for a bead. Products include brazing, welding, cutting, and consumables (wire, flux, solder), medical regulators, tips, and torches. Facilities in the US, Mexico, Germany, Italy, and Poland, and a distribution center in Spain drive global sales, primarily through industrial distributors, retailers, and directly to welders. Key markets span metal fabrication, steel construction, auto, pipeline, and oil and gas exploration.

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