Founded in 1928, STRATCO, Inc. is owned by president Diane Graham. Doing business as STRATCO GLOBAL, STRATCO company makes and services process equipment for manufacturers in the grease, chemicals, roofing, and petrochemicals industries worldwide. Its lineup boasts the STRATCO Contactor reactor, for processing lubricating greases, and the Modified Asphalt Contactor reactor, used in producing roofing materials. STRATCO's family includes ECOPATH Contracting and ECOPATH Industries, suppliers of asphalt rubber blending equipment for paving markets. STRATCO also offers design and engineering services.

Badger Income Fund serves contractors that really need to dig in. Badger's Daylighting (exposing underground infrastructure to daylight) business, specializes in non-destructive excavating services primarily for petroleum and utility contractors, but also serves the oil and gas pipeline, utility, transportation, industrial, and engineering sectors. Badger designs and manufactures truck mounted pressurized water and vacuum units used to safely expose utility cables and pipelines. The company's main product, the Hydrovac, is used to liquefy topsoil with a jet of water before the sediment is removed with a vacuum and held in a storage tank while work is being done. Canada accounts for over 60% of sales.

Leeds Group is now a small collection of subsidiary companies. Its Hemmers-Itex Textil Import Export subsidiary distributes cloth for apparel and home furnishings across Europe. The company withdrew from textile manufacturing, its traditional business, as the industry began to contract in Europe and move to emerging markets. It is now primarily focused on the import and sale of Asian fabrics in Europe. Today it sells about 35 million linear feet of fabric per year. Johan Claesson and UK entrepreneur Peter Gyllenhammer are major shareholders of Leeds Group.

Carbide Tool Services (CTS), which provides regrind, repair, and tooling services to industrial manufacturers. Carbide Tool Services company specializes in repairing indexable and cutting tools. Its tool repair programs include the fixing of drills, face mills, lathe tools, end mills, and a range of other tools. CTS mends tools from a variety of machine-tool manufacturers, including Ingersoll, Kennametal, Seco Tools, and WALTER, and customizes its repair operations to fit the specific needs of its clients. The largest tool repair business in the US, CTS operates a 22,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility, which it built in 1995.

Ballard Power Systems Inc. engages in the design, development, manufacture, sale, and service of fuel cell products for motive and stationary power markets primarily in the United States, Canada, Japan, and Germany. It operates in three segments: Fuel Cell Products, Contract Automotive, and Material Products. The Fuel Cell Products segment provides fuel cell products and services for material handling and bus, back-up power, supplemental power, and distributed generation applications. The Contract Automotive segment engages in contract manufacturing light-duty automotive fuel cell products, as well as offers testing and engineering services. The Material Products segment provides carbon fiber material products principally for automotive applications and gas diffusion layer material for fuel cell products.

Loose wires can be problems in industrial applications; Loos wires, however, offer solutions to those critical safety and quality issues. Loos & Co. manufactures stainless steel wire rope, mechanical steel cable, cable assemblies, plastic coated steel cable, and related products. Customers draw from aerospace, agricultural, consumer products, marine, natural resource, and public utility industries. Moreover, its products meet a roster of military, OEM, and international specifications from Bombardier Aerospace and General Dynamics to Boeing. A network of distributors pushes the lineup. The privately held company was founded in 1964.

Fujitec designs, develops, manufactures, markets, installs, and maintains elevators, escalators, moving walks, vertical parking equipment, and new transportation systems. Fujitec's principal products include train station elevators, machine-room-less elevators, and standard elevators; escalators, wheelchair accessible escalators, autowalks, and vertical automated bicycle park systems; and large-scale underground mechanized parking facilities. Fujitec has production bases in 20 countries and conducts business worldwide.

Marvac Scientific Company's vacuum pumps are mechanical high-vacuum pumps used for scientific and industrial applications. Its heavy-duty belt drive pumps are used in neon sign manufacturing, as well as in laboratory settings. Its heavy-duty direct drive product line is designed for dehydration and some scientific uses, while the standard-duty direct drive models are used in the refrigeration service field. Marvac has phased out manufacturing of vacuum pumps due to overseas competition, but it continues to provide spare parts and repair services for its products. Marvac company has branched out into radiator adaptors and testers.

Printpack wraps its array of flexible and rigid packaging around salty snacks, confections, baked goods, and cereal, as well as tissues and paper towels. The company's packaging includes plastic film, aluminum foil, metalized films, and paper with specialized coatings, as well as cast and blown monolayer and co-extruded films. Its sustainable lineup is marketed under the Natura brand. Blue-chip clients include Frito-Lay, Georgia-Pacific, General Mills, and Quaker Oats. Printpack manufactures packaging at more than 25 plants in the US, UK, Mexico, Poland, and China. For more than half a century the Love family has owned Printpack company; Dennis Love, the son of Printpack's founder, serves as president.

Innovia Films Ltd is a major producer of highly differentiated speciality Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP) films using a proprietary ‘bubble’ manufacturing process. It holds a leading global position in the markets for high performance coated films, tobacco overwrap, labels and security films. Worldwide Innovia employs 850 people and has production sites in Australia, Belgium and the UK.Innovia Films' 45+ years of manufacturing unique BOPP films ensures we are the supplier of choice for many converters, brand owners and end-users across the world. Service and support, alongside product quality is a priority for us. Our strong network of commercial offices, agents and distributors globally support our sales into >100 countries worldwide, ensuring a high level of customer responsiveness.Our Scientists, Product Managers and Engineers work extensively with our customers to continue to deliver step change improvements and new products that resolve demanding applications.

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