Founded in San Francisco in 1941 by Charles Neal, Brooks Equipment Company moved its headquarters to Charlotte, North Carolina in 1980 to be closer to customers concentrated in the eastern US. Investment firm Behrman Capital sold Brooks Equipment to fellow investment firm Freeman Spogli in 2010. Brooks Equipment Company cannot brook inadequate fire safety. The wholesale company distributes fire extinguishers, fire hoses, nozzles, sprinkler system equipment, and smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. It also supplies replacement parts for many of its products, and hosts safety training courses at many of its locations. Brooks Equipment maintains warehouses in more than a dozen cities throughout the US.

Dresser-Rand Group Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of rotating equipment, as well as provides related services primarily to the oil, gas, petrochemical, and industrial process industries worldwide. It offers various turbo products, such as compressors, gas turbines, power recovery turbines, and hot gas expanders used in gas lift and injection, gas gathering, storage and transmission, synthetic fuels, ethylene, fertilizer, refineries, chemical production, and compressed air energy storage applications. Dresser-Rand company also provides reciprocating compressors, which are used in lower volume/higher compression ratio applications; and steam turbines that include mechanical drive steam turbines and turbine generator sets used primarily to drive pumps, fans, blowers, generators, and compressors. In addition, it offers a range of aftermarket parts and services. Dresser-Rand company markets its products and services through its direct sales/service personnel and independent representatives. Dresser-Rand Group Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Rexnord Holdings, Inc. (RHI) is king in many North American markets. Its operating subsidiary RBS Global functions through two divisions: Process and Motion Control (formerly known as Power Transmission) and Water Management, which is made up of four companies, including Zurn Industries, Rodney Hunt, GA Industries, and Fontaine-Alliance. Process and Motion Control manufactures gears, couplings, industrial bearings, seals, and specialized components, under Rex, Falk, and Link-Belt brands. Its Water Management division provides products under the Zurn brand for professional grade specification plumbing and water control and treatment applications.

Sandvik Materials Technology, of which Kanthal is a brand, is a world-leading manufacturer of products based on advanced metallic and ceramic materials.Our products and services contribute to our customers' productivity, reliability and cost efficiency while reducing their environmental impact in a wide variety of industry segments. In partnership with customers, we jointly develop products and materials that meet the challenges of the future.

VPI (which originally stood for Vinyl Plastics, Inc.) manufactures a full line of plastic flooring products including rubber flooring, green flooring (made from 40% reprocessed material), static control tile, transition molding, and wall base. It also makes accessories including rubber stair treads, risers, stringers, and installation accessories. VPI Corporation company markets its products to companies in the construction, electronics, education, healthcare, and sports industries. VPI was founded as Natural Products, Inc. in 1946 to manufacture and sell a newly developed form of plastic: polyvinyl chloride (PVC). VPI Corporation company was reorganized as Vinyl Plastics, Inc. in 1951.

GrafTech International Ltd. manufactures graphite and carbon material science-based solutions. The company operates in two segments, Industrial Materials and Engineered Solutions. The Industrial Materials segment manufactures and delivers graphite electrodes, refractory products, and related services. Its graphite electrodes enable thermal management solutions for the electronics industry and fuel cell solutions for the transportation and power generation industries. Graphite electrodes and are used to produce electric arc furnace steel and various other ferrous and nonferrous metals. This segment also manufactures carbon, graphite, and semi-graphite refractory products, which protect the walls of blast furnaces and submerged arc furnaces. The Engineered Solutions segment offers advanced graphite materials that are used in the transportation, solar, metallurgical, chemical, and oil and gas exploration industries. This segment also provides natural graphite products, including thermal management solutions used in the electronics, automotive, petrochemical, and transportation industries; fuel cell components; and sealing materials. The company sells its products through direct sales force, independent sales representatives, and distributors in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.

Sullair manufactures portable and stationary air compressors, vacuum systems, refrigerated and regenerative dryers and filters, and an array of tools, including rock drills, paving breakers, chipping breakers, and rivet busters. Sullair's compressors and air tools are purchased directly and through distributors by construction, mining, and manufacturing industries worldwide. In addition to manufacturing, Sullair markets re-manufactured compressors, parts, and service, as well as training for all of its products. The company operates as a brand of Hamilton Sundstrand, with facilities planted around the globe.

Gundle/SLT Environmental, Inc. (GSE) is a leading manufacturer and marketer of geosynthetic lining products and services with a worldwide presence in the following markets: agriculture, aquaculture, canals, civil, golf courses, mining, power, stormwater retention, waste containment, wastewater, and other industrial applications. For over 30 years, people around the world have looked to GSE products to make their projects easier and better. With an expansive line of geomembranes, geosynthetic clay liners, geonets, geocomposites, nonwoven geotextiles, and concrete protection, GSE continues to develop solutions to meet our customers varying project requirements.Our unstoppable commitment to innovation, creating new technologies and products, gives our company the ability to apply our technologies to an endless array of customer needs. GSE’s dedicated and experienced professionals are always ready to service our customers around the world. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, GSE has manufacturing and sales offices in the United States, Canada, Chile, Germany, United Kingdom, Thailand, and Egypt. GSE is a subsidiary of GEO Holdings Corp. owned by Code Hennessy & Simmons IV L.P.

General Cable Corporation is engaged in developing, designing, manufacturing, marketing, distributing and installing copper, aluminum and fiber optic wire and cable products. The Company operates in three segments based on geographic regions: North America, Europe and North Africa, and Rest of World (ROW), which consists of operations in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific. It sells a variety of copper, aluminum and fiber optic wire and cable products. As of December 31, 2009, the Company manufactures its product lines in 44 facilities including two facilities owned by companies, in which the Company has an equity investment and sells its products worldwide through its global operations. The products of the Company include Electric Utility products, Electrical Infrastructure products, Construction products, Communication products, and Rod Mill products. In August 2009, the Company acquired Gepco International, Inc. and Isotec, Inc. (collectively, Gepco).

Established in 1919, Quinn is family owned and operated by its founder's third generation. Quinn Group offers a full slate of backhoes and other construction machinery throughout Central and Southern California, and parts of Arizona. Quinn comprises a group of four businesses: Alta Lift sells, leases, and services Caterpillar and non-CAT branded lift trucks for a variety of material handling jobs; Quinn Company supplies construction, industrial, and agriculture and landscape equipment; Quinn Power Systems provides electrical power generation, irrigation pumps, and truck engines; and Quinn Rental Services operates more than a dozen rental stores.

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