PRAB (named after the first initials in the names of the company's founders) manufactures metal scrap reclamation systems and bulk material handling equipment. Its products include briquetting systems, conveyors, metal stamping scrap systems, and metal chip processing systems, which are used in the chemical, food processing, and pharmaceutical industries. Its Hapman division serves the pharmaceutical, chemical, food, plastics, packaging, mining and waste water treatment industries. Kalamazoo Acquisition, an investment firm led by PRAB's management, has acquired PRAB company and merged it with its newly formed Kalamazoo PRAB subsidiary.

General Extrusions makes no exclusions with its extrusions. General Extrusions produces standard and custom aluminum extrusions for manufacturers in the appliance, medical equipment, transportation, and automotive markets, among others. General Extrusions is engaged in fabrication, anodizing, and powder coating, as well as aluminum finishing and machining. It also provides design assistance and engineering support. General Extrusions makes simple and intricate aluminum shapes, through long and short production runs. The company's manufacturing operations, which include its two Ohio plants, total over 300,000 sq. ft. General Extrusions is owned and run by the Schuler family.

The applications for mobile electric power have been growing steadily over the last decade as advanced digital electronics penetrate all walks of life. Computers, digital sensors and instruments, control systems, automation, real time data collection /processing and other electronic components are steadily replacing less efficient tools and machines. Applications away from the grid line or on-the-move require a mobile source of electricity and, in particular, digital systems require pure sine wave AC power. More recently, global wide environmental concerns and awareness demand reduction in harmful emissions from internal combustion engines. It is accepted that the most promising near term solution is the use of electricity in the form of electric motors and generators.Historically gensets, also known as APUs, have provided mobile power solutions. A gensets (APU) is a small internal combustion engine (ICE) that is the prime mover for a generator. The engine runs at constant speed of 3,600 or 1,800 RPM to generate 60 hertz AC power (1,500 or 3,000 RPM for 50 hertz). Such engines not only tend to be environmentally unfriendly, bulky, heavy, and noisy, but also derate with outside temperature and altitude, derate in the presence of harmonics in the load, and also require regular scheduled maintenance.

Gerresheimer Glas is a glass act. It makes bottles and containers for the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. Through its four divisions - Tubular Glass, Moulded Glass, Plastic Systems, and Life Science Research - Gerresheimer company drives pharmaceutics packaging such as ampoules, cartridges, and laboratory glassware, as well as dosing systems such as disposable syringe systems, sprays, and dropper bottles, and cosmetics bottles for fragrances. Its US presence is held through pharma glass group Comar, and a joint venture, Kimble Chase Life Science and Research Products, with Thermo Fisher Scientific. In 2004 private equity firm Blackstone Group bought Gerresheimer Glas from Investcorp and J.P. Morgan Partners.

Couplings Company's products do help customers make the right connections with brass and nylon pipes, valves, and fittings. The company's products include a wide range of brass fittings made for air brakes, poly tubing, compressors, pipes, and garden hoses; as well as ball, needle, and shut-off valves; air and drain cocks; and copper, plastic, and rubber tubing. Other items include automotive brake lines, brass flare fittings, poly tubing, grease fittings, hose barb fittings, inverted flare automotive fittings, and radiant heater fittings.

Since the 1830's, there has been industrial activity on the current site of the Blue Heron Paper Mill. At times, the site has been used as a flour mill, a sawmill, a brick operation, a woolen mill and a paper mill. The Oregon City mill as it is today started in 1908 as the Hawley Pulp and Paper Mill. W.P. Hawley bought the mill and adjacent properties and eventually installed four paper machines to produce a variety of paper products including fruit wrap, bread paper, wrapping paper, toweling, bags and newsprint.Ownership transferred to the Los Angeles Times as Publishers Paper Co. and then to Jefferson Smurfit Corporation. The Oregon City mill led the Pacific Northwest into the reclamation of old newspapers with a 25 ton/day deinking plant in 1975. Today, old newspapers and magazines comprise over half our raw materials.Blue Heron Paper Co. can recycle over 600 tons per day of newsprint, magazines and other paper and make a variety of grades of newsprint, high bright specialty papers, converting and bag papers.

Although Sequana Capital capitalized on a sequence of businesses, Sequana Capital company -- which was called Worms & Cie for more than a century -- now focuses on paper manufacturing and distribution. Wholly owned subsidiary ArjoWiggins, a paper manufacturer and distributor, represents the company's largest business segment. It operates 25-plus paper mills spread throughout Asia, Latin America, and North America. Sequana Capital also owns paper products distributor Antalis, which operates in more than 50 countries around the globe. The firm changed its name to Sequana Capital in 2005; Sequana translates to "seine" in Latin, meaning "to fish."

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.

Echo,Incorporated is a top developer and manufacturer of professional hand-held outdoor landscaping equipment. The company serves both the commercial and residential homeowner markets. Echo, a subsidiary of Japan's Kioritz Corporation, offers a full line of trimmers and brush cutters, power edgers, power blowers, chain saws, hedge clippers, power pruners, and sprayers. In addition, Echo makes and markets attachments, engine drills, pumps, and safety accessories. Founded in 1972 as Kioritz Corporation of America, Echo engineered the world's first hand-held power blower. In 2009 the company was merged with outdoor power equipment maker Shindaiwa.

Porter-Cable tools are picked up by handymen and women, professional woodworkers and construction workers, and electricians and plumbers. The company manufactures electric tools (tabletop saws, bench top planers, and radial drill presses), cordless tools (drills and drivers, and combo kits), air tools (hammers, wrenches, nailers, and spray guns), and related accessories. In 2000 Porter-Cable merged with sister company Delta Machinery. Black & Decker, which later merged with The Stanley Works to become Stanley Black & Decker, scored Porter-Cable from Pentair in 2005.

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