Aalberts Industries is an international group of industrial companies with two, mutually reinforcing, core activities: Industrial Services and Flow Control.The group companies are leading players in their respective markets and constantly strive to strengthen this position. The ways in which this is achieved include a continuous process of innovation in terms of products, systems and processes combined with a focused market approach. Aalberts Industries’ decentralised organisational structure in which responsibility for the day-to-day operations rests with the management of the groupcompanies stimulates entrepreneurship. Group company managements report business progress to the holding company on a regular basis. There is also frequent contact between the Management Board and the group company managements.Aalberts Industries continuously strengthens its leading market positions through a combination of profitable organic growth and the selective acquisition of complementary companies that fit within the strategy. Focused diversification, a steady increase in earnings per share and solid balance sheet ratios are key.Aalberts Industries has been quoted on the stock exchange since 1987. At the end of 2009 Aalberts Industries employed around 10,000 people who worked in more than 140 group companies in over 30 countries. Revenue for 2009 amounted to EUR 1,405 million.

Leatherman Tool Group can put the squeeze on many things in about 10 different ways. It makes about a dozen styles of folding pocket tools and a total of more than 30 products. Most of Leatherman's stainless-steel tools are a combination of pliers, blades, files, screwdrivers, pruners, and even a cork screw in some sets. Each of Leatherman's products carry a 25-year guarantee. It manufactures the compact Juice tool set to target a younger market and the upscale Argentum, designed by Argentine silversmith Adrian Pallarols, to attract the luxury niche. Since co-owners Tim Leatherman and Steve Berliner founded Leatherman Tool in 1983, the company has greatly expanded its initial Pocket Survival Tool concept.

Kalamazoo Fabricating makes electrical panels, controls and drive components using its media blasting, painting facilities, and various lathes, mills, and saws. A division of Envirodyne Technologies, the company has expertise in the areas of custom equipment fabrication, coolant filtration, material handling systems, conveyors, and wash systems. Products are finished using dedicated media blasting (glass bead, sand, walnut shell, etc.) and paint. Kalamazoo Fabricating's installation of controls, drive components, and electrical panels take place at its plant's final assembly building. Industrial conveyor maker PRAB acquired Envirodyne in May 2008.

Lawrence Pumps pumps out a variety of fluid handling products from its Lawrence, Massachusetts home base. Founded in 1935, Lawrence Pumps company manufactures axial, vertical line, and submersible pumps for use in the chemical, mining, petroleum, and steelmaking industries. Its innovative products include canned motor pumps for highly abrasive chemical slurries, cryogenic pumps (for use in liquid nitrogen and oxygen operations), and loop-reactor axial flow pumps for use in processing polyolefins. Lawrence Pumps also offers parts and repair services. Its engineering department designs new pumps in-house. Its products are sold via offices in the US, China, Singapore, and Holland and a global sales network.

Rippin is a provider of structural steel manufacturing services. Rippin produces materials primarily for construction projects throughout the UK such as the Cameron Toll Shopping Center, the central command facility for the Strathclyde Fire Brigade, Glasgow University Sports Center, and Queen Street Railway Station. The company makes use of methods including beam rolling, mig welding, and pedinghaus punching in the manufacture of its structural steel components.

Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) is a leading developer of fiber plantations with one of the world's largest pulp and paper mills.Our vision is to be one of the largest, best-managed, most profitable and sustainable pulp and paper companies in the world, and be a preferred supplier to our customers and the preferred company to our people.As a major producer of fiber, pulp and paper, APRIL knows it has a fundamental role in developing ways to meet the world's growing demand for these products, while integrating sustainability in our operations."In the long term, a sustainable forest management strategy aimed at maintaining or increasing forest carbon stocks, while producing an annual sustained yield of timber, fiber or energy from the forest, will generate the largest sustained mitigation benefit."

Thermo King Corporation company manufactures transport temperature control systems and HVAC systems for trailers, truck bodies, buses, shipping containers, and rail cars. Produced at 10 plants in seven countries, the lineup is marketed worldwide through a global dealer network. In addition to its line of new systems, Thermo King offers used and remanufactured refrigeration units to customers. The Thermo King concept was conceived in 1938 by Frederick Jones and Joseph Numero, who needed a way to transport fresh chickens across long distances without spoiling. Thermo King Corporation is now part of Ingersoll-Rand Climate Control Technologies, a division of Ingersoll-Rand.

Rockwell Automation, Inc. provides industrial automation power, control, and information solutions. Rockwell Automation company operates in two segments, Architecture & Software, and Control Products & Solutions. The Architecture & Software segment offers control platforms, which perform multiple control disciplines and monitoring of applications, including discrete, batch, continuous process, drives control, motion control, and machine safety control; software products, such as configuration and visualization software used to operate and supervise control platforms, advanced process control software, and manufacturing execution software that addresses information needs between the factory floor and a customer's enterprise business system; and rotary and linear motion control products, sensors, and machine safety components. This segment markets its products primarily under the Allen-Bradley, A-B, Rockwell Software, and FactoryTalk brand names. The Control Products & Solutions segment provides electro-mechanical and electronic motor starters, motor and circuit protection devices, AC/DC variable frequency drives, contactors, push buttons, signaling devices, termination and protection devices, relays and timers, and condition sensors; and value-added packaged solutions, such as configured drives, motor control centers, and custom-engineered panels for original equipment manufacturer and end-user applications. It also offers automation and information solutions, including custom-engineered hardware and software systems; and provides total life-cycle support services.

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.

Wright Tool makes the wrenches, screwdrivers, pliers, hammers, and other tools that professionals need to get building and repair jobs done. It also offers tool cabinets and a variety of master sets. In addition to hardware, the company markets men's and women's Wright Tool-branded apparel and accessories. Peddled under the Wright and Cougar brand names, the company's tools are sold through online retailers and representatives in the US, Canada, Mexico, and other countries; its 4,000-plus products are not distributed to the do-it-yourself mass market. Owned by the Wright family, Wright Tool was founded in 1927.

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