Troy Aikman doesn't lob bricks, but the former Cowboys quarterback does pitch products for Acme Brick. From more than 20 brick manufacturing plants, the Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary produces and distributes more than a billion bricks annually to its construction customers in a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes. It also makes all-brick wood-burning fireplace systems. Acme Brick holds a family of companies, including Acme-Ochs Brick & Stone, offering brick and natural stone; American Tile, distributing residential and commercial stone tiles; Featherlite masonry materials; IBP Glass Block Grid System, making custom aluminum glass block grids; and Texas Quarries, supplying limestone.

Lawrence Pumps pumps out a variety of fluid handling products from its Lawrence, Massachusetts home base. Founded in 1935, Lawrence Pumps company manufactures axial, vertical line, and submersible pumps for use in the chemical, mining, petroleum, and steelmaking industries. Its innovative products include canned motor pumps for highly abrasive chemical slurries, cryogenic pumps (for use in liquid nitrogen and oxygen operations), and loop-reactor axial flow pumps for use in processing polyolefins. Lawrence Pumps also offers parts and repair services. Its engineering department designs new pumps in-house. Its products are sold via offices in the US, China, Singapore, and Holland and a global sales network.

Ratti is always chic founded in 1945.Ratti company specializes in making silk, cashmere, linen, wool, and cotton fabrics. Ratti produces most of its fabrics for women's apparel and accessories such as ties and scarves, but the company also makes fabrics for home furnishings. The company operates a few mills and distributes products worldwide, with offices in Italy, France, and New York. Ratti also participates in cultural textile exhibitions and publishes art books on ancient textiles. In August 2009 Marzotto approved the acquisition of a two-thirds stake in Ratti.

Duo-Gard Industries makes daylighting systems for windows, skylights, walls, and canopies. Duo-Gard company also makes modular shelters such as transit and bike shelters, kiosks, and toll booths. Duo-Gard integrates translucent, insulated polycarbonate panels with structural frames to create lighted structures that save energy. Its illumaWALL system uses programmable LEDs to add light to interior and exterior walls, ceilings, and custom signs. Duo-Gard offers in-house design, fabrication, and installation services for new construction and renovation of all types of facilities. Founded in 1984, the family-owned company works with architects, engineers, contractors, interior designers, and building owners.

MAHLE Powertrain (formerly Cosworth Technology) manufactures aluminum alloy casting powertrains and other vehicle engine parts using precision sand casting. The company's products include cylinder blocks, heads, and structural castings. Other products include adaptive and modular diagnostic tools used in industrial manufacturing. It also undertakes powertrain design and development and produces integrated powertrain assemblies for automotive, non-automotive, and construction equipment markets. Customers include Audi, Automobili Lamborghini, and Ford Motor. MAHLE Powertrain is a subsidiary of Germany-based auto parts manufacturer Mahle.

Work at Advanced Drainage Systems (ADS) isn't going down the drain, it is the drain. ADS manufactures high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes for storm and sanitary sewers, agricultural drainage, road and highway construction, and residential and commercial development. The corrugated HDPE lineup runs from culverts to drains, fittings, grates, grease interceptors, and leaching chambers. ADS even offers a mix of green building products. Customers are mining and timber operators as well as engineers in highway construction and waste management systems. ADS products lie under fabled US athletic turf and recreation sites, such as Augusta National, Dodger Stadium, and Lambeau Field. ADS is an employee-owned company.

Cartiere Burgo is one of Europe's largest paper producers, manufacturing about 3 million tons of paper a year. Cartiere Burgo heads the Burgo Group, a chain of companies that supply everything from plant services to electricity for Cartiere Burgo company. Paper -- including woodfree-coated, uncoated, specialty, packaging, and newsprint -- accounts for nearly 90% of group sales. Cartiere Burgo also makes chemical, wood, and de-inked pulp and sells the excess electricity it generates as a by-product of its production processes. Cartiere Burgo merged with competitor, the Marchi Group, in 2004, and Marchi holds 48% of the combined company.

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BORIDE Engineered Abrasives began operations in the 1960s. BORIDE's brushes and bobs help keep the industrial world polished. BORIDE Engineered Abrasives develops, manufactures, and distributes mold and die polishing products (brushes, bobs, diamond files, and wood sticks), diamond wheel dressing products, and specialty abrasive products that include private-labeled products.

Magtrol designs and manufactures devices for the testing, measurement, and control of torque, speed, power, load, force, weight, tension, and displacement. Magtrol company is a leading maker of motor test equipment and hysteresis brakes and clutches. Switzerland-based subsidiary Magtrol SA offers motor test equipment and products to measure, control, and monitor load-force-weight and displacement. Magtrol also has sales offices in China, France, Germany, India, and the UK.

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