Omron Scientific Technologies, Incorporated supplies safety light guards, safety interlocks and relays, safety mats, and controllers used to protect personnel in hazardous manufacturing environments. Omron STI serves such industries as automotive, cosmetics, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, and electronic machinery. Former Scientific Technologies Inc. chairman Anthony Lazzara and his family controlled the company until it sold the safety products business to OMRON in 2006. Omron STI's products are supported worldwide by distributors and OMRON offices.

IRCE conducts itself well in the world of energy and electrical equipment. IRCE company, which began in 1947, now makes isolated cables for power and data transmission on local-area networks (LANs) and conductors (copper and aluminum enameled thread, or wire) for use in electric generators, motors, transformers, relays, and other electric devices. IRCE company sells almost half of its enameled wire outside Italy. IRCE operates five manufacturing plants, three in Italy, one in the Netherlands, and one in the UK. IRCE company also has distribution operations in Germany, Spain, and Switzerland.

Founded in Germany in 1909 by Anton Piller, Piller Industrieventilatoren GmbH is now owned by the families of Bernd Klostermann and managing director Nils Englund. Piller Industrieventilatoren makes fans -- not the kind that scream at celebrities, nor the kind that ladies use to gently create a breeze, but the kind used in industrial furnaces, power and evaporator plants, and industries ranging from food to textiles to petrochemicals. Piller also offers installation, maintenance, repairs, and remote diagnosis. Piller Industrieventilatoren company has offices and representatives in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and the US. Exports account for more than half of sales.

Crawford Industrial Group can light your fire with packaged combustion systems that incinerate and oxidize wastes, odors, and air pollutants. Crawford Industrial Group company's high-temperature offerings include cremation equipment for incinerating humans and animals, as well as incinerators for medical, infectious, and biohazardous waste. Additionally, Crawford makes equipment to control volatile organic compounds and hazardous air pollutants. Crawford Industrial Group company's equipment is used in industrial, marine, medical, and municipal applications. Crawford also provides maintenance and spare parts services. It has manufacturing facilities in Orlando, Florida, and sales offices in Canada, the UK, and the US.

Continental International company manufactures O-rings, seals, bumpers, isolators, grommets, rubber cords, switch protectors, valve stems, and related industrial machinery supplies for OEMs and distributors worldwide. More than 300,000 O-rings, seals, and allied rubber items are distributed by Continental International. Its lineup is used in brakes to four wheel drive and cooling systems, consumer lighting goods, and fractional motors. Continental International company touts services including micro-encapsulation and Teflon coating, bar coding, and customized stocking systems, too.

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.

Founded in 1946, the family-owned WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG makes electronic and mechanical pressure measuring devices used in chemical, energy, food, gas distribution, and other industrial manufacturing applications. Other products include analog and digital thermometers, transmitters, thermowells, diaphragm seals, and accessories. WIKA company also makes testing and calibration instruments and software; many mechanical products made by the company are computer-compatible, allowing for automated data collection. WIKA has worldwide manufacturing and distribution operations in about 75 countries.

Shorewood Packaging Corporation company makes paperboard packaging for cosmetics, drugs, tobacco, and other consumer products in North America, Europe, and Asia. It delivers conversion and finishing processes, such as hot foil stamping, die cutting, and folding, as well as lithography, sheet-fed, and web printing. Shorewood Packaging Corporation company specializes in entertainment and multimedia packaging, including products for computer software and music. It also offers graphic design and art direction in conjunction with its packaging services. Shorewood Packaging Corporation company, acquired by International Paper (IP) in 2000, contributes to IP's Consumer Packaging Group.

Founded in 1898, Okuma also distributes pre-owned machines and provides refurbishing services for older machines in disrepair. Okuma Holdings company has 13 overseas and six domestic companies; it operates in North America through US affiliate Okuma America Corporation and in Europe through Okuma Europe. The Okuma Technical Center East (Austria) is the sales and service base for the Eastern European market. Okuma Holdings (formerly Okuma Corporation) grinds out machine tools for customers worldwide. The company's computerized numerically controlled (CNC) machining devices range from grinders and lathes, to machining center systems, electrical discharge machines, and flexible electronic manufacturing systems.

Sappi Fine Paper, as evidenced by its passion for the paper business, has the wherewithal to be every bit as sappy as its magazine, book, and catalog customers. The coated fine paper producer touts a production capacity of 1.3 million tons of paper a year. Coated specialty and uncoated fine papers are also made. It stakes industry and sustainable firsts, under multiple brands, including the mill branded LOE (Lustro Offset Environmental) paper, the first premium sheet to use 30% post-consumer waste content. A coated paper, Tempo, courts the volume and color production demands of the digital age. Since 1994 Sappi Fine Paper North America has operated as a subsidiary of Johannesburg, South Africa, Sappi Limited

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