Sheards (formerly John Sheard) is a major supplier of textile machinery and parts. It supplies a wide range of yarn spinners including makers of sewing thread, weaving yarn, knitting or carpet yarn, and natural or synthetic fibers. Sheards acts as a distributor and agent for 21 of the world's top textile machinery and component manufacturers and supplies the UK and Irish markets. It formerly served as the UK and Ireland distributor for Lubricant Consult GmbH, the Germany-based leading manufacturer of high-specification lubricants, but exited that business in 2005 following a change in ownership and business direction in 2004.

Punch Graphix company designs and manufactures digital and prepress printing equipment, including color printing systems, software, and consumables, for the commercial printing and newspaper industries. Products are destributed by the company under the Xeikon (digital printing) and basysPrint (high-end offset prepress imaging systems) brand names. Punch Graphix, which changed its name from Punch Technix in 2007, is a subsidiary of Belgian industrial manufacturer Punch International.

Wheeling Corrugating still displays nerves of steel.The Niche manufacturer produces roll formed steel products. The lineup includes galvanized roofing and siding, steel roof decks, as well as bridge highway decking, galvanized sheet, painted coil products for HVAC use, and even pre-engineered metal buildings. Fabrication depends primarily on galvanized steel, produced at a Wheeling-Pittsburgh plant, and to a lesser extent on full-hard cold rolled steel. Wheeling Corrugating's 14 plants dot the US, serving bridge and highway building, construction, residential, and agricultural markets. The company is a business division of Severstal Wheeling, Inc.

Letica has plastic containers by the gallon -- and other sizes as well. Owned and run by the Letica family, Letica Corp. is a nationwide maker of plastic packaging, from buckets to cups, some of which use recycled material. Letica Corporation company produces one- to seven-gallon commercial containers, often with multi-color labels. In addition to a rigid packaging segment, Letica's Maui foodservice packaging offers plastic injection-molded, thin-wall containers and lids, as well as paper containers. Products are transported to customers and backhauled by a freightlines segment. Customizing containers for specific applications, Letica caters to building material suppliers, hardware stores, and retail and restaurant outlets.

Quipp, Inc. company makes post-press newspaper-handling equipment that stacks, wraps, bundles, and loads newspapers. The company's Twin-Trak and Quipp-Gripp III conveyors move newspapers from the press to the mailroom, where the Viper wraps them in paper and adds identification labels. Stackers mechanically stack newspapers, and cart-loading systems automatically load the papers onto trucks. Computerized monitoring systems control the handling process. Quipp boasts more than 500 US and international customers; newspaper publisher Gannett accounts for about 10% of sales. Acquired in 2008, Quipp operates as a subsidiary of industrial behemoth Illinois Tool Works.

Aranda Tooling makes millions of metal parts each year for the aircraft, automotive, plumbing, and sporting industries both in the US and for export markets (primarily Mexico). The company also uses robotic machines to precisely cut and weld so that it can design and build parts without using contractors. Led by president and founder Pedro Aranda, the machining company offers a full range of design, prototype, high volume metal stamping, tooling, and assembly services. Aranda Tooling has more than 90,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing and assembly space in Huntington Beach, California.

W. S. Darley & Co. company makes firefighting equipment, including pump and foam systems and fire trucks. Its extensive range of products includes emergency lights and sirens, fire protection nozzles and other gear, forest fire drip torches, hazmat equipment, rescue tools, and traffic cones. W. S. Darley, which has a track record of sizeable export and US Department of Defense (DoD) contracts, partners with Odin Foam (compressed air foam systems R&D), PolyBilt (truck bodies), and Ohler Pumps (centrifugal pumps). It ships its products to over 70 countries. Darley company has been family owned and operated for four generations.

Spider Agile Technology (formerly Spider Manufacturing) designs and develops recessed wall and floor enclosures for electrical and communications outlets, power outlets, and lighting fixtures that are designed to be mounted directly on tables. Spider Agile company also manufactures surface mounted boxes, which can be mounted in floor ducting systems or surface mounted raceways. Its products are designed to work with audio, data, video, voice, and power connections. Spider sells directly and through distributors including Customers include American International Group, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, and The University of Texas. It took its present name when acquired by DIRTT Environmental Solutions in 2008.

Its carbon division manufactures carbon brushes and slip rings for motors, bearings and seals for chemical processing and fluid handling, body armor, graphite powder for synthetic diamonds, and carbon solutions for aerospace. Its technical ceramics push industrial ceramics from medical implants to power tubes used in airport security scanning devices, and aerospace components. Thermal ceramics make such heat insulation products as fiber, firebricks, and monolithics. Crucibles crown its work in molten metal systems. Morgan targets technically complex applications in energy, defense, and medical markets.

Chairman D. Dan Kahn founded PTS in 1951 to serve small factories and shops in the Detroit area. The Kahn family still controls Production Tool Supply Company, LLC. Production Tool Supply totes the tools of the trade -- and it distributes them to more than 50,000 customers worldwide. With nine showrooms in Michigan and Ohio, the company (PTS) distributes brand-name discount industrial tools and machinery. It markets approximately 235,000 products through a 1,700-page catalog, on the Internet, and through independent distributors. Products include cutting tools, carbide tools, abrasives, measuring tools, clamps and vises, power tools, tool safety products, and power machinery by blue chip OEMs, such as Bosch, Porter-Cable, and Sandvik.

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