Toro company makes lawn mowers and other products for professional and residential use. Toro's professional products include irrigation equipment, mowers for commercial use, riding and walk-behind power mowers for golf course fairways and greens, trimmers, and utility vehicles. Some professional brands are Toro, Rain Master, Exmark, Irritrol, and Dingo. Its residential products, sold to distributors, home centers, and mass retailers, include walk-behind and riding lawn mowers, lawn tractors, electrical trimmers, and snow blowers. Brand names in this sector include Toro, Rain Master, Irritrol, Lawn Genie, and Lawn-Boy.

Talan Products offers custom metal stamping, tube forming, and tube fabrication services; it also provides machine processing services such as bending, countersinking, drilling, and welding. Talan Products makes a range of tooling and engineered parts for customers in the automotive, construction, consumer appliance, defense, and hardware markets. Talan Products' primary business is mid- to high-volume metal stampings. Founders and company executives -- CEO Steve Peplin, president Pete Accorti, and manufacturing VP Pat Parziale -- own and run the company.

United States Pipe and Foundry Company (US Pipe) manufactures ductile iron pipe, fittings, valves, gaskets, and hydrants. The company is a unit of Mueller Water Products, which was spun off by Walter Industries (now Walter Energy) in 2006, and accounts for 29% of Mueller's sales. Walter acquired US Pipe in 1969. The company makes pipe at four plants in the US, in Alabama (two), New Jersey, and California. US Pipe also manufactures pipe in metric dimensions for the international market. The company primarily serves the water and wastewater industries.

Emin Leydier's operations include Emin Leydier Paper Mills (paper for corrugated material), Emin Leydier Packaging (recycled corrugated cardboard for packing), and Emin Leydier Services (packaging services). Its elytra segment also acts as a strategic unit used to manufacture corrugated packaging for food products. Emin Leydier produces about 180,000 tons of corrugated cardboard annually. Forged in the merger of two firms belonging to Pierre Emin and Paul Leydier in 1975, the family-owned business owns subsidiaries in France, Spain, Italy, and the UK.

Crane Composites is a real heavyweight when it comes to lightweight fiberglass. Founded in 1954, the company became a subsidiary of Crane Co.'s engineered materials segment in 1985. It manufactures fiberglass-reinforced plastics (FRP) for applications including containers, building products like wall and ceiling tiles, and for sidewalls and roofs of truck trailers and recreational vehicles. Crane Composites sells directly to truck trailer and recreational vehicle (RV) manufacturers, but uses distributors for its construction markets. Crane Composites, Inc company changed its name from Kemlite in 2006. In addition to the US, Crane Composites, Inc company also has facilities in Canada, China, the Netherlands, and the UK.

Mid-South designs and fabricates metal stampings, and electronic and mechanical equipment, which are used in the appliance, automotive, and telecommunications industries. The company's operations include Alabama-based Mid-South Electronics, Mid-South Products Engineering, Inc., and Stamped Products Inc., and Kentucky-based Mid-South Electronics. Gobar Systems, a joint venture with Ohio-based Select Tool & Die, operates metal stamping and injection molding operations on the Texas-Mexico border.

Ameresco, Inc. provides energy efficiency solutions for facilities in North America. Ameresco company engages in the development, design, engineering, and installation of projects that reduce the energy, as well as operation and maintenance costs of governmental, educational, utility, healthcare, and other institutional, commercial, and industrial entities facilities. Its set of services includes upgrades to a facility's energy infrastructure. Ameresco provides renewable energy products and services that include the construction of small-scale plants that produce electricity, gas, heat, or cooling from renewable sources of energy; the sale of such electricity, processed landfill gas, heat, or cooling from plants that it owns; and the sale and installation of solar energy products and systems for both on-grid and off-grid applications. It distributes solar energy products and systems, such as PV panels, solar regulators, solar charge controllers, inverters, solar-powered lighting systems, solar-powered water pumps, solar panel mounting hardware, and other system components.

The Oerlikon Group is one of the most innovative and research-intensive industrial groups in the world. Six of the company's business units are active in machine and plant engineering: textile machines, thin-film coating, production plants for thin-film silicon solar modules, vacuum systems, drive systems and "Advanced Technology". In 2010, more than 16,000 employees at 157 sites in 36 countries generated sales of CHF 1.6 billion.The leading technology solutions the Oerlikon Group provides enable our customers to achieve decisive advantages with end users - both industrial and commercial customers as well as private end consumers. Customers like Sony, Bosch, CMC, Kraft Foods, Ferrari, Reliance and Caterpillar use production technologies and components from Oerlikon to attain their own success with high-tech products: solar modules, cars, computers, machine tools, jeans, shirts, oil platforms, tyres - and much more. All Formula 1 engines receive a highly-resilient coating from Oerlikon to enhance their performance. 60 percent of all twines used in industrially manufactured rugs are produced on textile machines from Oerlikon. The most modern solar modules currently available today are made in Oerlikon thin-film coating plants.

GILDEMEISTER AG Company's Deckel Maho subsidiary manufactures milling machines and machining centers. Another subsidiary, Lasertec, manufactures cutting tools that utilize laser technology. GILDEMEISTER's other products include universal lathes and turning centers. GILDEMEISTER Company also provides technical services that include its spare parts business, training products, used-machine trading, and product service for the life of the machine through its DMG subsidiaries. Although GILDEMEISTER sells its products from about 30 locations worldwide, Germany generates nearly half of its sales.

Gray Fabrication specializes in rolling and forming metal plate using hydraulic brake presses and plate rollers into cans, cones, and tubular. The company's services include cutting, materials supply, plate and pipe rolling, steel fabrication, and welding. Gray fabricates materials used for general engineering, offshore energy, and pressure vessel applications among others. Gray Fabrication makes and warehouses its products at its 26,000 sq. ft. facility. The company, which was founded in 1979, primarily serves customers in Canada, Norway, and the UK.

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