CEO Tim Hilton continues to run Carolina Handling, LLC that was founded in 1966. Carolina Handling wants to be in the minds of businesses throughout the southeastern US when material-handling equipment is called for. The company distributes a full line of material-handling products made by Raymond. Carolina Handling specializes in lift trucks; it also offers pallet trucks, reach trucks, stackers, and tow tractors. In addition to new and used equipment sales, Carolina Handling company provides service, parts, rentals, and training. The company operates from about a half dozen facilities in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, and South Carolina.

Pilkington Group Limited company produces glass for the automotive and building products industries, and it is a major supplier of glass to replacement windshield shops in Europe, the Americas, and the Asia/Pacific region. Pilkington also manufactures building products, including glass designed to insulate buildings to control energy and noise. The company's automotive glass products include solar control glass, security glazing, and glass heating systems. Pilkington has operations in more than two dozen countries worldwide. In 2006 Pilkington was acquired by Nippon Sheet Glass Company, which previously owned about 20% of Pilkington Group Limited company.

Gardner Denver, Inc. is a leading global manufacturer of highly engineered compressors, blowers, pumps and other fluid transfer equipment. Our products and engineered solutions are sold through multi-channel, worldwide distribution systems and are used for applications in virtually every market sector, including industrial manufacturing, transportation, to environmental processes, to healthcare applications, and to energy production. The Company’s strategy focuses on organic growth through customer-driven innovation and expansion of aftermarket services, margin improvement through the internal business system - The Gardner Denver Way, and completion of selective acquisitions.Gardner Denver's operations are organized into two major product groups: the Industrial Products Group and the Engineered Products Group. In the Industrial Products Group, the Company designs, manufactures, markets and services rotary screw, reciprocating and sliding vane compressors; and multistage and positive displacement, centrifugal and side-channel blowers. The end market sectors served by the Industrial Products Group are primarily industrial manufacturing, transportation, energy, mining and construction.In the Engineered Products Group, the Company designs, manufactures, markets and services liquid ring pumps and engineered systems for power generation, environmental, petrochemical, pulp and paper and industrial applications; pumps and fluid transfer equipment used primarily in oil and natural gas well drilling, servicing and production, and petrochemical and industrial applications; and single-piece piston reciprocating, diaphragm and linear compressors and vacuum pumps, which are used in medical, environmental and laboratory applications. This Group's products also include loading arms, swivel joints, couplers, valves, fall protection and access equipment used to load and unload ships, tank trucks and rail cars.Gardner Denver’s experienced management team is committed to creating shareholder value through the effective implementation of the Gardner Denver Way, its strategies and sound corporate governance practices.

Röchling Glastic Composites provides global customers with a variety of stock products, sheets, shapes, materials and custom pultrusion capabilities. For over 50 years, Röchling Glastic have become synonymous with engineered composite materials that provide excellent dielectric, thermal, corrosion, abrasion and structural properties. Röchling Glastic products and capabilities are available throughout the world through a network of authorized distributors and fabricators. As a member of Röchling Engineering Plastics, KG, Röchling Glastic offer worldwide engineering and technical resources to meet your most demanding thermoplastic and thermoset needs.

President Bill Kuban owns the company his father, Kurt Kuban, founded in 1946. Kurt Manufacturing makes close-tolerance, precision-machined parts and components on a contract basis for the aerospace, defense, automotive, oil, and semiconductor machining markets. Kurt operates through divisions including Hydraulics, Engineered Systems, Kinetic, Chipmunk, and Workholding. These divisions manufacture chip recycling equipment, gaging systems, hydraulic coupling and hoses, vises and other workholding tools and bicycle training products. The company is also a manufacturing partner of DeltaHawk Engines, producing engines that operate on jet fuel and range from 150- to 200-plus horsepower.

United Plastics Group, Inc. company makes plastic products and components utilizing mold building, injection molding, and micro molding processes. Its divisions are based on the automotive, consumer, electronics, industrial, and medical markets. Value-added products include heat transfer decals, heat staking, pad printing, and sonic welding. United Plastics (dba UPG), which operates more than 300 molding machines, has over 10 manufacturing plants across the US, as well as in China, Mexico, and the UK. UPG is owned by Los Angeles-based private equity firm Aurora Capital Partners.

Waukesha-Pearce Industries (also called WPI) is where WPI graduates and others can pick up the tools of their trade. The company's Engine Division designs and distributes engine-driven equipment, from power generators to pumps, blowers, and switchgear. Its Construction Machinery Division offers a slate of heavy construction and mining products, including earth movers and demolition equipment made by such OEMs as Komatsu and Gradall Industries. WPI also sells used equipment and leases heavy earth-moving equipment.

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.

Prime Advantage Corporation company is a private buying consortium focused on creating the best possible savings on raw materials, components, supplies, and services for its client base. Founded in 1997, Prime Advantage's prime strategy of aggregating the purchasing power of individual manufacturers has increased cost savings for its members on a wide array of office and industrial supplies. Prime Advantage Corporation company's supplier roster includes distributors of abrasives, bearings, circuit boards, fasteners, lift trucks, motors, pumps, and valves made by manufacturers such as Motion Industries, Fastenal Company, and Macsteel Service Centers.

Nippon Carbon is a leading maker of graphite electrodes for electric arc furnaces. Steelmakers and other manufacturers use the furnaces to melt scrap metals. In addition to graphite electrode production, Nippon Carbon also makes fine carbon products for the semiconductor industry and carbon-based products for the auto industry. Other carbon products include graphite powder used in the cathodes of lithium-ion batteries and ultra-high heat-resistant silicon carbide continuous fiber. Nippon Carbon was founded in 1915 when it began producing natural graphite electrodes.

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