Goodwin is the parent of a family of companies; its subsidiaries make everything from oil and petrochemical equipment to steel castings for the construction industry and wax casting products for the jewelry industry. Subsidiary Easat makes antennas and radar systems. Another unit, Hoben Industrial Minerals, processes hard minerals into fine powders that are used in ceramics, civil engineering, and other applications. Just to keep things interesting, Goodwin also owns Internet Central, a UK-based Internet service provider. Goodwin was founded in 1883.

GMP Metal Products may be a fabricator of sorts, but it ain't no liar. The contract manufacturer, a subsidiary of Wozniak Industries, manufactures assemblies, fabrications, and metal stampings, using such methods as laser cutting, forming, deep drawing, and a variety of painting and plating surface treatments. Its fabricated products include assemblies for large construction equipment, structural framework for mobile units and off-highway vehicles, and doors, roofs, and other sections for military vehicles. Major customers include the automotive, agriculture machinery, defense, and construction equipment industries.

Federal Screw Works is a manufacturer of fasteners and related items, primarily for the automotive industry. The company produces high-volume lots to the specifications of manufacturers. Nonautomotive sales are mainly to makers of durable goods. FSW's products include locknuts, bolts, piston pins, studs, bushings, shafts, and other machined, cold-formed, hardened, and ground-metal parts. It maintains five manufacturing facilities, all of which are located in Michigan.

Mazak manufactures tools for metal-cutting and metal-forming machines. Products are used in agriculture, aerospace, automotive manufacturing, construction, energy, industrial contract manufacturing, and medicine. Mazak company operates eight manufacturing plants in China, Japan, Singapore, the UK, and US, turning out lathes, machining centers, milling centers, and dedicated manufacturing systems. Its technology centers, planted in North America, engineer and demonstrate product developments for improving customer production. Mazak offers training services plus parts and used machines. It is a subsidiary of Japanese machine tool maker Yamazaki Mazak, which was founded in 1919.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) a member of the Mitsubishi keiretsu, manufactures machinery and equipment for myriad markets. Its operations are divided into six fields, including an other: Power systems (gas turbines, nuclear and thermal power plants); mass and medium-lot manufactured machinery (engines, forklift trucks, air conditioning and refrigeration systems, industrial tools); machinery and steel structures (chemical plants, bridges, material handling systems, compressors); aerospace (passenger jets, aeroengines, missiles, launch services); shipbuilding and ocean development (carriers and deep-sea platforms). MHI's core market is Japan.

Leeds Group is now a small collection of subsidiary companies. Its Hemmers-Itex Textil Import Export subsidiary distributes cloth for apparel and home furnishings across Europe. The company withdrew from textile manufacturing, its traditional business, as the industry began to contract in Europe and move to emerging markets. It is now primarily focused on the import and sale of Asian fabrics in Europe. Today it sells about 35 million linear feet of fabric per year. Johan Claesson and UK entrepreneur Peter Gyllenhammer are major shareholders of Leeds Group.

Ball Packaging Europe is one of the leading beverage can producers in Europe. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Ball Corporation, an international producer of high quality packaging, Ball Packaging Europe reported turnover of EUR 1.2 billion in 2009 with 2,600 employees.Twelve production plants situated in close proximity to clients in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Poland and Serbia ensure that the company has extensive presence both in the traditional core markets of western Europe and also in the significant growth regions of eastern and southern Europe.In the Technical Centre, the research & development centre in Germany, scientists and engineers work constantly to enhance product features and production processes and to develop innovations to tap new product segments.The range of products and services provided by Ball Packaging Europe comprises two-piece beverage cans made of tinplate and aluminum for beer, carbonated soft drinks, mineral water, fruit juices, milk and yoghurt drinks, coffee and alcopops.With an annual capacity of some 14 billion units and a market share of around 30 %, Ball Packaging Europe is the number 2 in the European beverage can market.

Didsbury Engineering Co. Limited company is one of the world's leading makers of lifting gear and hoists for the civil and defense aviation markets. Its products are used to lift heavy weapons and aircraft engines. It also makes manhole cover lifters. Didsbury is the sole supplier of hoists to Airbus. Didsbury's civil aviation hoists can lift items ranging in size from 280 lbs. to 2,800 lbs. The company's other customers include the UK's Ministry of Defence, BAE Systems, and Westland Helicopters. Didsbury is owned and controlled by its management.

Blanchard Machinery Company sells and rents new and used Caterpillar heavy construction and mining equipment throughout South Carolina. It also sells compact construction equipment (mini-excavators and skid-steer loaders) to serve landscaping and smaller contractor needs. Other products include diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. Blanchard Machinery maintains an extensive inventory of new and used parts and component systems; it also offers preventive maintenance and repair services. G. Robert Blanchard founded Blanchard Machinery company in 1982. His son, Joe Blanchard, is the company's president and CEO.

Tomra Systems ASA company's reverse vending machines (RVMs) are used in retail locations to identify returned beverage containers (glass, plastic, aluminum, or steel) and refund customer deposits. RVMs are used to process refillable and non-refillable beverage containers: refillables are identified by shape, sorted, and crated for transport back to the bottler; non-refillables are sorted, crushed, and shredded or compacted so they can be melted down to make new containers. Tomra's accumulation tables, sorting gates, and bottle-to-crate systems are intended to completely automate retailer recycling needs.

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