The 50/50 joint venture combines Cooper's Tool segment with certain tool businesses of Danaher's Tools and Components segment. Through its own business segments, Apex Tool Group manufactures hand tools, power tools, and professional electronic tools for use in both commercial and do-it-yourself applications. Offering more than 30 brand names -- including Crescent, GearWrench, Armstrong, and Weller -- Apex serves 30 countries. Its products are sold through distributors and supply houses to customers in the automotive, aerospace, construction, electronics, and manufacturing and assembly sectors.

Ingersoll-Rand plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, sale, and service of industrial and commercial products in the United States and internationally. It operates in four segments: Air Conditioning Systems and Services, Climate Control Technologies, Industrial Technologies, and Security Technologies. The Air Conditioning Systems and Services segment offers HVAC systems, dehumidifying and air cleaning products, service and parts support, and building controls, as well as financing solutions. This segment serves commercial, residential, institutional, and industrial markets. The Climate Control Technologies segment provides refrigerated display merchandisers; beverage coolers, auxiliary power units, walk-in storage coolers and freezers, and transport temperature control units for food and other perishables. The Industrial Technologies segment manufactures compressed air systems, tools, pumps, fluid handling systems, golf and utility vehicles, and micro turbines. The Security Technologies segment offers electronic and biometric access control systems and software, locks and locksets, door closers, exit devices, steel doors and frames, portable security devices, decorative hardware, and cabinet hardware, as well as time, attendance, and personnel scheduling systems. This segment serves commercial construction and residential housing markets, healthcare, retail, maritime, and transport industries, as well as educational and governmental facilities. Ingersoll-Rand plc company offers its products under the Club Car, Hussmann, Ingersoll-Rand, Schlage, Thermo King, and Trane brand names.

Kortec Company designs and manufactures industrial injection mold equipment used to make a diversity of air-tight plastic bottles. Its proprietary co-injection technology produces high-barrier, multilayer packaging for juice to beer, as well as for chemicals, prescriptions, and even re-sealable plastic cans for paint. Kortec touts turnkey processes for co-injection systems, tailoring the machinery to suit customers' specific needs. Facilities in Belgium, Mexico, Hong Kong, the UK, and the US, cater to a global list of customers in plastics and packaging industries. Kortec company is led by two of its five co-founders, Paul Swenson and Gloria Curley.

Ajax Metal Processing is cleaning up the market when it comes to hardening and protecting small metal parts, such as nuts and bolts, primarily for customers in the automobile manufacturing industry. Services include heat treating, plating, adhesive and sealant application, annealing, cleaning, and coating. The company's wire rod annealing and pickling equipment includes four surface combustion batch-type furnaces with a total annealing capacity of 130 tons per day, and a continuous eight-zone furnace with an annealing capacity of 100 tons per day. Ajax Metal Processing operates two plants in Michigan and one in Indiana.

Mitsubishi Steel Mfg is a part of the Mitsubishi "keiretsu," makes special steel castings and forgings such as coil springs, hot-rolled special steel bars, magnetic materials, and vibration and shock isolators for construction machinery. Springs and processed steel products account for about one-third of sales each. Other products include shoe plates and assemblies and automotive suspension components, which it manufactures through a joint venture with Meritor Automotive.

Anchor Manufacturing Group manufactures metal stampings, assemblies, and steering column products (primarily for the auto industry). Anchor Manufacturing's in-house capabilities include manufacturing services such as welding and assembly, laser cutting, heat treating, sawing, shearing, metal stamping (up to 2,000 tons), tool and die (and repair), powder coating, machining, and metal fabricating. The company operates 340,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space on 20 acres near the Cleveland Hopkins Airport. Anchor Manufacturing was founded in 1970 by Edward Pfaff.

Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V., through its subsidiaries, engages in the production, distribution, and sale of glass products in Mexico and internationally. It operates through two segments, Flat Glass and Glass Containers. The Flat Glass segment manufactures and distributes flat glass for the construction and automotive industries. This segment offers float glass, architectural tempered safety glass, insulated glass units, laminated, and table top glass for the construction industry, distributors, retailers, installers, and furniture and home appliances manufacturers; and automotive glass, such as windshields, side laminated glass, and rear and side tempered glass for the automotive original equipment manufacturers and AGR market. The Glass Containers segment engages in the manufacture and distribution of glass containers for the soft drink, beer, food, juices, liquor and wine, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics industries, as well as raw materials, machinery, and molds for the glass, detergent, pharmaceutical, and food producers. Vitro company was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico.

Road Machinery LLC company sells and leases machinery to the construction, mining, and industrial markets, as well as government entities, from locations spread throughout the Southwest US. Road Machinery's short list includes backhoes, crushers, dozers, shovels, trucks, and loaders made by Komatsu, Atlas Copco, Sennebogen, NPK, and other multi-purpose equipment brands. Road Machinery company also performs repair and rebuild services for most brands of heavy equipment. Formerly owned by Komatsu America, Road Machinery has operated a Mitsui & Co. subsidiary since early 2005.

Brentwood Industries company manufactures a variety of products, including wheelbarrows, cooling towers, wastewater treatment systems, and speciality plastic forming and molding services. Brentwood has expanded its product line with the additions of Polychem Systems (non-metallic chain and flight sludge collectors) and NRG Products (non-metallic clarifier systems for municpal and industrial markets). Brentwood company has manufacturing facilities in Arizona, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Brentwood was founded in 1965. Brentwood Asia provides cooling tower manufacturing and distribution for the Asian market from facilities in Thailand.

Global Power Equipment Group (GPEG) doesn't let global power go to its head, but to its bottom line. The company operates through several manufacturing and design businesses, supplying heat recovery and auxiliary power equipment to OEMs, as well as engineering and construction, and power generation and process industries. A service segment offers upgrades and maintenance services to utility and industrial companies. Auxiliary parts for natural gas-fired turbines are made under the Braden Manufacturing and Consolidated Fabricators brands, and heat recovery boilers under Deltak. Williams Industrial Services assists in nuclear and hydroelectric power plant maintenance. North America represents 90% of GPEG's sales.

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