The Graduate's Mr. McGuire and Chen Hsong Holdings company's founder and chairman Chiang Chen agree on one thing: There's a great future in plastics. Chen Hsong Holdings is one of the world's largest manufacturers of injection molding machines, used to make such products as home appliances, electronics, and toys. Chen Hsong Holdings company produces about 15,000 machines each year for customers in more than 65 countries around the globe (though about two-thirds of its revenues are generated in China and Hong Kong). Chen Hsong Holdings company is now run by Chiang Chen's daughter, CEO Lai Yuen Chiang.

Cross selling is no problem for Cross Company, an industrial distributor of products and solutions for fluid-power, motion-control, factory-automation, fluid-handling, and measurement applications. Employee-owned since 1979, the Southeastern US-based automation technology company operates four divisions: Cross Automation, Cross Fluid Power, Cross Hose & Fittings, and Cross Instrumentation. It has operations in seven US states. Division Cross Automation provides industrial plant and machine automation products including controls, sensors, and drives. Cross Fluid Power is a distributor of hydraulic and pneumatic components and engineered systems.

Consolidated Container Company (CCC) is one of the largest manufacturers of rigid plastic packaging in the US. The company markets its myriad containers (used for milk, water, fertilizer, salsa, antifreeze, and more) to industries from dairy to water, agricultural, food, and industrial chemical. Custom packaging, project management, lab work, product integration, and logistics support are part of CCC's service lineup. CCC operates more than 70 blow-molded manufacturing plants in North America, which produce about 7 billion pieces annually. Customers include Dean Foods and Procter & Gamble. CCC is controlled by private equity Vestar Capital Partners.

Allied Holdings is hanging on to a group of electrical and metals processing and distribution companies on behalf of its parent, Tyco International. Its electrical and infrastructure segment makes conduits and cables and cable management and metal framing systems. The pipe and tube segments makes, you guessed it, pipes and tubes as well as fence framework and structural steel sheets; all are available in a range of sizes. Allied Holdings offers its products through home improvement retailers, electrical and plumbing distributors, OEMs, and general contractors in North America, Brazil, the UK, France, Australia, and New Zealand. Tyco plans to spin off Allied Holdings to its shareholders in early 2011.

Giti, a global tire manufacturer, operates from 7 strategically located manufacturing plants in China. Adopting a multi-brand strategy, Giti offers a complete range of quality tires and exports to over 100 countries worldwide with North America and Europe as the key export markets.Ranked as one of the leading tire manufacturer in China and the 14th largest globally in terms of sales revenue, Giti attributes its success to fair business practice and willingness to invest in people, research & development and manufacturing technology.Giti is also fully aware of its corporate citizen role and will continue to contribute and support social and environmental improvement programs.

Chairman and founder Robert Atkins and his family owns Atkins Machinery. Atkins Machinery does not distribute gadgets designed to help you lose weight, unless you have an appetite for used textile equipment. Atkins Machinery company sells pre-owned equipment used in the textile industry. Atkins Machinery sells products such as fiber spinning and drawing equipment, fiber cutters, and knotting machines to customers around the globe. It also sells complete manufacturing plants.

Cummins Power Systems company, the distribution arm of Cummins' Engine and Power Generation subsidiaries in Bermuda and the eastern US, supplies diesel engines, electric generators, and filtration systems. Cummins' engines can be found in Dodge trucks and in Fleetwood, Gulf Stream, and Monaco RV recreational vehicles, as well as buses and emergency vehicles. Cummins also makes marine engines for pleasure boats and military vessels, and the company's generators power RVs or entire homes. In 2008 Cummins merged its Cummins Power Systems and Cummins Metropower businesses, keeping the Cummins Power Systems name.

The beginning of what is Cooper Lighting today goes back to 1956. At that time the Halo Lighting Company was founded with the philosophy of manufacturing lighting fixtures which would be attractive, simple to install and easy to service. From the modest beginnings of a one-room facility and six product lines, Cooper Lighting has grown to a position of international industry leadership. Along the way, there have been many changes.The mission of Cooper Lighting is to be the leading provider of innovative, high quality lighting fixtures and related products to worldwide commercial, industrial, residential and utility markets. Cooper Lighting has a total commitment to a Customer First attitude and to being consistently superior to competitors in fulfilling customer needs. Cooper Lighting is also committed to growing profitably and to the opportunity for all employees to contribute, grow, have fun, and take pride in their work.

Fabri-Kal is driven by a pioneering spirit to develop innovative new products and provide comprehensive capabilities for custom plastic packaging. Fabri-Kal is recognized as a leader in customer service and market responsiveness. We evolve our capabilities to meet the changing market needs and have developed flexible production processes to drive our unique advantage of quick to market packaging development.Fabri-Kal is the eighth largest thermoformer in North America and primarily serves the foodservice and consumer goods packaging markets. We manufacture and sell our stock products to foodservice operators and distributors and retailers largely through a broker network and sell a variety of custom products directly to consumer goods companies. The company employs approximately 800 people at 3 locations across the United States.

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.

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