FLSmidth & Co. A/S Company, formerly FLS Industries, supplies services, machinery, and equipment to cement and related mineral industries worldwide. Operations include making cement plant machinery and pneumatic ship unloaders. It also offers materials handling and air pollution control services. Through subsidiary Dansk Eternit, it sells fiber cement building materials. After looking for a buyer, the company founders' family heirs gave up their attempt to sell in 2006. Instead, they switched their shares in holding company AS Potagus, which manufactures and markets cement and other building materials, to shares in FLSmidth.

Hog Slat provides a slew of swine-related product and services. The company manufactures pig farming equipment, including floor slabs and tiles, as well as hog penning, breeding, feeding, handling, and watering supplies. It also provides construction services for hog stalls (farrowing crates) and raises some 400,000 hogs per year at its own facilities. Hog Slat company is owned and run by the Herring family. Hog Slat has two sister companies, HSM Metal Fabrication and Parking Bumper Company, a manufacturer of concrete bumpers for parking spaces.

Xomox knows valves backwards and forwards. The Crane subsidiary's products include sleeved plug valves, ball valves, butterfly valves, and lined valves. The company's products are used in the chemical, petrochemical, pulp and paper, nuclear power, and hydrocarbon processing industries. Xomox also offers a full line of vane and rack and pinion pneumatic actuators. The company has manufacturing operations in Canada, France, Germany, India, Mexico, the UK, and the US. Xomox was founded as Continental Manufacturing Company in 1956 and was acquired by Crane Co. in 2001.

Cristalerias de Chile, known as Cristalchile, just can't contain itself in the bottle-making business. Cristalerias company dominates Chile's glass container industry. Its 200-plus domestic and foreign customers include laboratories and makers of wine, beer, nonalcoholic drinks, pharmaceuticals, and food products. Customers include Compañía Cervecerías Unidas, Viña Concha y Toro, and Viña San Pedro, of which Cristalerias controls. Cristalerias company boasts a technical agreement with Owens-Illinois, as well as stakes in broadcasting businesses. Cristalchile's primary stakeholder is Electro Metalurgica (Elecmetal) and affiliates. Maria Luisa Vial, widow of Cristalerías magnate Ricardo Claro, holds more than 45% of Elecmetal.

Exopack manufactures flexible packaging, film, and paper options for over 1,600 customers marketing pet food to food and beverages, lawn and garden, cement, agricultural staples, and more. Its core segments produce plastic films such as laminated rollstock, converted plastics like standup pouches and edge seam bags, consumer paper for popcorn, coffee, and pet food bags, and coated products for printing, electronic, medical, or security uses. The company's facilities dot North America and the UK. Exopack originated from a merger of Exopack LLC, Cello-Foil, and The Packaging Group. It is an affiliate company of Sun Capital Partners.

Joy Global Inc. engages in the manufacture and servicing of mining equipment for the extraction of coal, copper, iron ore, oil sands, and other minerals worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Underground Mining Machinery, Surface Mining Equipment, and Continental Crushing and Conveying. The Underground Mining Machinery segment produces continuous miners, longwall shearers, powered roof supports, armored face conveyors, shuttle cars, flexible conveyor trains, roof bolters, battery haulers, and continuous haulage systems. It also rebuilds and services equipment, and sells replacement parts and consumables in support of installed base. The Surface Mining Equipment segment produces electric mining shovels, walking draglines, and rotary blasthole drills. This segment also provides used electric mining shovels, logistics, and life cycle management support services. The Continental Crushing and Conveying segment manufactures and distributes bulk material crushing and conveyor systems used in coal and hard rock mining for metals and minerals, aggregates, and tunneling. Its products include feeder breakers, conveyor systems, and high angle conveyors.

Cinetic Automation Corporation company supplies application engineering, machine tools, and automated systems for powertrain assembly. It also manufactures non-automotive automation and assembly systems, fastener tightening, washers and gantries, and testing equipment, as well as conveyors. Founded in 1965 to serve the Detroit car market, Cinetic Automation has branched into appliance, energy, and defense applications worldwide. Clients include BMW, Coca-Cola, Caterpillar, Emerson, General Motors, and Visteon. Cinetic Automation company is a unit of Fives Cinetic, itself a subsidiary of French industrial equipment giant Fives.

Acme Alliance, a subsidiary of Lovejoy Industries, specializes in die casting parts (aluminum, magnesium, and zinc), thxomolding (metal casting and plastic injection molding), permanent moldings, aluminum extrusions, and sheet metal stampings. The company touts its capabilities as a one-stop-shop for metal machining and gasketing, to finishing, and mechanical assembly, as well as logistics and resource services. Positioned as a strategic alliance of international companies, Acme Alliance claims a competitive edge in streamlining all aspects of component development and production.

Operating through its subsidiaries, Wajax rents, sells, and services the after-sales parts of mobile industrial equipment such as cranes, log loaders, excavators, and lift trucks. The company also sells, services, and assembles diesel and natural gas engines. Its third arena, industrial components, focuses on supporting bearings, pumps and hydraulics, and transmission equipment. Multiple lines from OEMs like JCB and Tigercat are distributed for natural resource and construction work, transportation and manufacturing efforts, and industrial processing and utility projects. The publicly-held company is operated through Wajax Income Fund.

Amada America manufactures and sells sheet metal fabricating equipment, including CNC turret punch presses, lasers, press brakes, shears, flexible manufacturing systems, and related software. The company primarily sells its fabricating equipment to the aerospace, appliance, electronics, farm equipment, medical, and telecommunications industries. Through its Amada Capital Corporation subsidiary, Amada America finances and leases its equipment. Amada America was founded in 1971. Its parent company in Japan dates back to just after WWII and has about 80 affiliates and subsidiaries around the world. North America accounts for about 12% of the Amada Group's annual sales.

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