Thomas & Betts Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets electrical components for industrial, construction, utility, and communications markets in the United States, Canada, and Europe. It operates in three segments: Electrical; Steel Structures; and Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning (HVAC). The Electrical segment offers connectors, components, and other products for industrial, construction, utility, and communications applications. Its products include fittings and accessories; fastening products, such as plastic and metallic ties, and flexible tubing; connectors, such as compression and mechanical connectors for power and grounding applications; indoor and outdoor switch and outlet boxes, covers, and accessories; floor boxes; metal framing used as structural support for conduits, cable tray, and electrical enclosures; and emergency and hazardous lighting. This segment also offers utility distribution connectors and switchgear; power quality equipment and services; CATV drop hardware; radio frequency connectors; aerial, pole, pedestal, and buried splice enclosures; encapsulation and sheath repair systems; and other products, including insulation products, wire markers, and application tooling products. The Steel Structures segment designs, manufactures, and markets highly engineered steel transmission structures.

Whitesell sells its engineered fasteners, wire forms, and cold-formed metal components to durable products makers around the world. Typically, midsized to large OEMs, including almost every major automotive company, buy its components; among them are General Motors, Nissan, and Toyota. Its cold-rolled and cold-forged steel parts are used in applications where strength and precision are critical. Other components it makes include rubber parts, plastic moldings, tapes, brakes, wheels, clamps, stampings, and filter bottles. Privately held Whitesell has more than 25 manufacturing and distribution facilities throughout North America and Asia.

T-3 Energy Services, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, repairs, and services products used in the drilling and completion of new oil and gas wells, the workover of existing wells, and the production and transportation of oil and gas primarily in the United States and Canada. It offers pressure and flow control products, such as blow-out preventers (BOPs), BOP control systems, elastomer products, high pressure gate valves, and manifolds, as well as production, drilling, and well service chokes that are used in the drilling, completion, production, and workover of onshore, offshore, and subsea applications. T-3 Energy Services company also provides wellhead products, which include wellheads, production chokes, and production valves used for onshore oil and gas production. In addition, it offers pipeline products, which comprise various valves for pipeline applications, including gate, ball, control, and check valves. Further, the company provides protective coatings for oilfield and industrial products to prevent corrosion, wear, and leakage; and aftermarket parts and services, such as remanufactured products and parts, repair, and field services.

Magnode Corporation is a full-service aluminum extruder, offering engineering, casting, extrusion, forming, fabrication, and finishing services, as well as trucking of finished work. Magnode supplies extruded aluminum products to a range of industries, including automotive, building and construction, consumer electronics, and defense. Magnode operates one of the largest extrusion presses in the US. The 4,500-ton press can extrude up to 17 inches in circle size and up to 23 pounds per foot. Magnode owns manufacturing facilities in America's heartland, and is led by its founder's third generation.

Langley Holdings PLC was established in 1975 by the current Chairman & CEO, Mr Tony Langley. Today, the Langley group is a globally operating, multi-disciplined engineering concern, providing capital equipment technologies to diverse markets around the world. Langley businesses are either outright market leaders or niche players in their particular field, providing advanced technologies in a solutions based approach. The group’s technologies can be found at the very heart of industrial and commercial processes across the developed and the developing world, often performing mission critical tasks in the most demanding of environments. In 2008 Langley generated revenues of just over €500m and employed approaching 2,500 people world wide. The group is financially independent and remains under the control of the founding family. Unusually for a privately owned business the group is highly transparent, making its annual report readily available to all its trading partners and employees via this website. The Langley group is divided into four divisions, based principally in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. These divisions are supported by a worldwide network of subsidiaries in the Americas, Europe, the Far East and Australasia.

Genesis Worldwide II has had metal manufacturing on its mind. Operating through its Herr-Voss Stamco business segment, Genesis Worldwide II company makes metal coil processing equipment used by steel and aluminum mills and mini-mills, ferrous and nonferrous supply centers, and end users of coiled metals. Products include tension leveling, cut-to-length, slitting, coating, and multi-blanking machines and packaging systems. Genesis Worldwide II company also provides such services as mill roll reconditioning, texturing, and grinding along with rebuilding, repair, and spare parts sales. Genesis II is held by HVS Acquisition, Inc., an affiliate of private equity firm Grey Mountain Partners.

Filatura di Pollone is the thread that runs through many textile products. The textile company makes natural and synthetic textiles and yarns for clothing and furnishings. Through the use of carded ultra-fine technology, the company produces extra-fine threads (twice as fine as traditional yarn) for use in high-quality clothing. With textile manufacturer Zegna Baruffa Lane Borgosesia, Filatura di Pollone operates a joint venture, Panital, in Hungary. The company has moved its production facilities to Poland and Hungary, where wage rates are lower than in Italy. The Maffeo and Botto families own 28% and 22%, respectively, of Filatura di Pollone.

Adolph Wurth GmbH & Co. markets and distributes more than 100,000 products in more than 80 countries through its Wurth Line and Allied Companies (companies trading under their own name). Wurth's more than 400 companies manufacture products including screws and fasteners, hand and power tools, insulation, personal protection equipment, and automotive products such as paints, lubricants, and oil, fuel, and air filters. The company also sells heating and drinking-water pipes, as well as offers heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning installation services.

Diploma was originally incorporated in 1931 and listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1960. In 1969, the Group started to acquire a number of industrial companies.In the 1990's these traditional core businesses matured into cyclical, lower margin businesses. A new acquisition programme was introduced to diversify into new more attractive sectors.Towards the end of the 1990's there was a simultaneous downturn in the three traditional businesses. It was apparent that they were in structural decline and this prompted the decision to embark upon a radical re-structuring of the Group.Over the three years from 1998 to 2001, ten businesses were sold generating proceeds of more than £90m. Of this, £70m was returned to shareholders through a Scheme of Arrangement in April 2000 and various share buy-backs. The balance was retained to fund future acquisitions and growth initiatives. This phase of re-structuring delivered an increase in shareholder value of more than 80% over the three year period.The restructuring has also changed the geographic spread of the businesses. From being a predominantly UK based Group, Diploma is now more international. Only 25% of the Group's sales are now in the UK, with the balance mostly being generated in North America and Continental Europe. The Group is now actively seeking further acquisitions to accelerate growth and to build substantial, broader based businesses in the core sectors of Life Sciences, Seals and Controls.

Founded in 1923 when Christian Trumpf and his partners acquired a machine shop, TRUMPF burgeoned into a leading maker of production machinery. TRUMPF company operates through three divisions: Machine Tools/Power Tools (flexible sheet metal processing, bevellers, cutters, deburrers, fasteners, nibblers, seam lockers, shears), Laser Technology/Electronics (industrial lasers for cutting, welding, marking, and forming applications; laser generators), and Medical Technology (operating tables, surgical lights, ceiling mounts). It gets about 70% of its sales outside Germany. TRUMPF is managed and controlled by the Leibinger family.

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